Mega cities

• Millionaire cities are cities with more than 1 million people
• A megacity are cities that have more than 10 million people.
• Rural-urban migration is the movement of people away from rural areas to live in urban areas
• Push factors are Bad things about where a person lives which causes them to want to leave, e.g. poverty or lack of health care
• Pull factors are good things about a new place which causes people to want to move there- e.g. job opportunities or better education.
• Economic development are countries getting richer by growing their economies.
• Multiplier effect is the Economic growth at an accelerating rate caused by industries creating jobs which attract more and more people, business and services
• millionaire cities facts- North America and Europe have a slow or negative growth of cities compared to Asia and Africa which have the fastest growth of millionaire cities
• stats- 2000 there was 371 millionaire cities

  2018 there was 548 millionaire cities

  prediction by 2030 there is expected 709 cities
• Distribution of millionaire cities

  
• megacities are growth even faster as in the 1970’s there where only 3 megacities and now there are 33 megacities and by 2030 there should be 43 megacities
• the factors that effect the rate of urbanisation are population growth, economic development an the multiplier effect.
• Population growth has it own factors like rural urban migration (push and pull factors) and natural increase.
• rural urban migration happens because people are either unhappy where they live or they see better living conditions in the urban areas or both. (the pull and push factors)