Urbanisation

• Rural-Urban migration

  People moving from the countryside to cities
• Urbanisation


  Increase in proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas
• Industrialisation

  Industry (factories) increasing on a large scale
• The worlds population growth has recently been exponential (rapid increase)
• Natural increase

  Difference in number of deaths and births, where the number of births are higher
• Urbanisation is caused by:

  Natural increase

  Rural-urban migration
• Push factors

  • No education
  • No clean water
  • No electricity
  • No jobs
• Pull factors

  • Jobs
  • Better education
  • Better healthcare
• More than 80 % of the UK live in urban areas
• Suburbanisation

  The movement from the middle of a city to the outskirts, due to pollution and little space in the middle of a city
• Suburbanisation can increase due to better transport links