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Urban Issues and Challenges

Global urbanisation: patterns, trends and what drives them

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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.

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Key term

What does urbanisation mean?

Key term

Describe how urbanised the world's countries are today.

Key term

In which parts of the world are urban populations growing fastest at present?

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  1. 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. 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. 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. 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. 5

    What is counter-urbanisation?

    Model answer

    The movement of people out of large cities to live in smaller towns and rural areas.

  6. 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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