Urbanisation

• Tokyo has a population of over 37 million people
• Urbanisation is when there is an increasing population in urban areas compared to rural areas
• urban areas are towns, cities or built up areas which usually have a higher population density than rural areas
• rural areas are commonly know as the countryside which does not have big cites towns or built-up areas with a lower population density compared to urban areas.
• trends are patterns of changes or overall change over time in a particular area or population
• industrialisation is where a country develops more industry like manufacturing products in factories
• developing countries are richer countries which are higher income countries, an example of this is the England
• emerging countries are countries who are rapidly developing which are becoming richer and more industrialised, for example India
• Developing countries are low income countries (LIC’s) where most of these population live in rural areas
• suburbanisation is when suburbs (mostly housing/residential areas) normally on the outer edge of the city grow as more people migrate there making the city’s larger.
• Counter urbanisation is when people move from urban areas to live in rural areas
• Graph to help understand the trends over the last 80 years

  
• Most of population growth happens in urban areas compared to rural areas
• The graph demonstrates the changes in urbanisation from past to the future (1950-2030).
• In 1950, the world had a smaller overall population compared to today, with 70% of the population living in rural areas and 30% living in urban areas.
• This trend has shifted over time, with the split between rural and urban areas being equal in 2010.
• Rural areas have stopped increasing, leading to the split being in favor of urban areas.
• The prediction for 2030 states that 70% of people will live in urban areas compared to 30% of people will live in rural areas.
• This is a demo station of rates of urbanisation

  
• Urbanisation started 200 years ago in the UK during the industry Revolution
• During the Industrial Revolution new inventions where made to help farmers, this meant there was less work in agriculture needed which lead to more people traveling to urban areas
• The increase of factories where built to support the Industrial Revolution which where located in town which also increase the % of urbanisation
• There where now fewer jobs in rural areas which meant that people migrated to urban areas
• Rural to urban migration continued until the late 20th century this made the urbanisation split to 80/20 (80%- urban, 20% rural) this happened North America and Europe
• Developing and emerging countries have the same urbanisation but is more rapid. As a country develops they use more factories like the Industrial Revolution this make rural-urban migration more appealing as there are more jobs.
• as there are more people being born than dying. This means the majority of population that is moving to urban areas and hound and start families after moving.