Urbanisation

• What is urbanisation?


  A process where an increasing proportion of the population

  lives in towns and cities resulting in their growth.
• What is a megacity?


  An urban area with a total population in excess of ten million people.
• What is an NEE?

  Newly Emerging Economy (eg. Brazil and India)
• What is an LIC?

  Low Income Country eg. Gambia
• What is development?


  This refers to the standard of living

  and quality of life of the people of a

  country.
• What is migration?


  the movement of population from one area to

  another. Some migrations are forced, voluntary, permanent and temporary, International and regional. In LICs a lot of migration is rural to urban.
• Rural to urban migration


  the movement of people from countryside to towns and cities