levo

Urban Issues and Challenges

The rise of megacities

  • 3 things to know
  • Paper 2

Overview

Megacities, millionaire cities and world cities, how and where megacities have multiplied, why they grow around capitals and ports, the problems of very large cities, and their effect on the rest of their country.

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

Your recallNot started
Key term

What is a megacity?

Key term

What is a millionaire city?

Key term

What is a world city?

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    What is a megacity?

    Model answer

    An urban area with a population of more than ten million people.

  2. 2

    What is a millionaire city?

    Model answer

    A city with more than one million inhabitants.

  3. 3

    What is a world city?

    Model answer

    A city with influence over the whole globe, usually through its financial, business and cultural power rather than its size alone.

  4. 4

    How has the number of megacities changed over the last few decades?

    Model answer

    It has risen sharply, from only a handful in the middle of the twentieth century to several dozen today.

  5. 5

    Where are most of the world's megacities now found?

    Model answer

    Mainly in Asia, with others in Africa and South America, rather than in the richer countries where the earliest ones grew.

  6. 6

    Which two processes have allowed megacities to emerge?

    Model answer

    Rural to urban migration on a huge scale, and rapid natural increase within the cities themselves.

Other ways to work this

The same content, four other ways.

What is inside Levo

Six ways to work the same material.

1Closed book
2Open book
3Closed book

The 3-step method, run for you

Answer cold, learn it, then prove it stuck. Levo tracks the jump between your first attempt and your last.

Climate Change
Coastal Landscapes in the UK
Cold Environments
Ecosystems

Cram a whole paper in one sitting

Sort every topic into what you know and what you do not, then drill only the weak ones.

500 m, because 50 000 cm is half a .
kilometremetremile

Blank Blitz makes facts automatic

Rapid timed gap-fills on the terms and numbers you need to recall without thinking.

ASunlight is free and will not run out.
BPanels can be fitted to a single home or clinic.
CPower reaches places no grid serves.

Build It gets the exam shape right

Assemble a full-mark answer from its marking points, in the order an examiner wants them.

Magnitude means how large or powerful an event is.
TrueFalse

Test It catches misconceptions

Spot the fault in a statement. The traps are the mistakes students actually make.

721941163128510

Brain Breaks between sessions

Short focus games to reset attention, so the next set lands better than the last.

Every question in Urban Issues and Challenges, on a schedule.

Attempt a question from memory, write the correct version, then attempt it again. Levo records the jump between your first attempt and your last, and brings each question back on the day you are due to forget it.

Or £46 a year, about £3.83 a month. Cancel anytime.