AQA GCSE Geography 8035
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Urban Issues and Challenges
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Urban Issues and Challenges
Global urbanisation: patterns, trends and what drives them
- 3 things to know
- Paper 2
Overview
What urbanisation is, how urbanised richer and poorer countries are, where urban growth is fastest, counter-urbanisation, natural increase and migration, and the push and pull factors that draw people into cities.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
Describe how urbanised the world's countries are today.
In which parts of the world are urban populations growing fastest at present?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What does urbanisation mean?
Model answer
The rising share of a population that lives in towns and cities rather than in the countryside.
- 2
Describe how urbanised the world's countries are today.
Model answer
Richer countries are already highly urbanised, with most of their people in towns and cities, while many poorer countries still have a large share of people living rurally.
- 3
In which parts of the world are urban populations growing fastest at present?
Model answer
In Asia and Africa, where poorer and rapidly developing countries are urbanising very quickly.
- 4
What is the urban trend in richer, high income countries?
Model answer
They are already highly urbanised, so their cities grow slowly, and some older inner areas lose people to suburbs and smaller towns.
- 5
What is counter-urbanisation?
Model answer
The movement of people out of large cities to live in smaller towns and rural areas.
- 6
What is the urban trend in the world's low income countries?
Model answer
Their city populations are rising steeply from a low starting point, so the share of people living in urban areas is climbing fast.
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