urbanisation

• urbanisation is the propotion of the worlds population that live in cities
• urbanisation is due to natural increase and migration.
• cities can grow due to push and pull factors
• push factors are factors that make an individual leave a rural area
• pull factors are factors that attract people into a city
• natural increase is when more babies are born than die, this causes the population to rise.
• migration is when individuals move from one place to another permanently or temporarily
• rural-urban migration is the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas for work or education
• examples of pull factors would be : education, employment, family, culture, and religion
• examples of push factors are : poverty, war, famine, natural disasters
• megacities are cities with a population over 10 million people