urban issues

• urbanisation is the proportion of the population living in cities
• urbanisation is increasing due to...

  1. natural increase
  2. migration
• urban growth is an increase in the area of land covered by cities
• in most HIC over 60% of the population live in cities
• in most LIC about 20% live in cities
• natural increase is when there is a higher birth rate that death rate
• rural to urban migration is moving from the countryside to cities
• people want to move away from the countryside because...

  1. farming is hard and bad pay
  2. lack of service
  3. isolation
• people want to move to the city because...

  1. better standard of living
  2. education
  3. services
  4. more job opportunities
• megacities are cities with populations over 10 million
• types of megacities

  1. slow growing
  2. growing
  3. rapid growing
• slow growing mega cities have no squatter settlements
• los angeles is a slow growing megacity
• slow growing megacities are often HICs
• growing mega cities are often NEEs
• rio de janeiro is an example of a growing mega cities
• growing mega cities have under 20% squatter settlements
• rapid growing mega cities have over 20% squatter settlements
• rapid growing mega cities are often LICs or NEEs
• Jakarta is an example of a rapid growing mega cities
• ports such as liverpool are important as the uk is an important trading nation
• during the industrial revolution major cities grew up with raw materials like coal e.g. machester, leeds, birmingham
• birmingham is located in the centre of the country making it the centre of industrial innovation
• immigrants settle in urban areas as there are often more job opportunities
• recently seen urban to rural migration possible as older people want to retire near the coast