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    Urban Environments:

    Millionaire city: 1 million inhabitants

    Megacity: 10 million inhabitants

    Global city: most commonly defined as the command and control centres of the global
    economy

    Developed - emerging - developing


    $$$ $$ $
    HIC LIC
    (High Income (Low Income
    Country) Country)

    Conurbation: The phenomenon of when neighbouring towns and cities merge together into
    one vast urban area

    CBD: Central Business District

    Causes of rapid urbanisation:


    1.
    - Population growth
    - Pull factors(attract people to city) - Access to health care, job options
    - Push factors(repel people from rural areas) - Fewer jobs available

    2.
    - Economic development - when a country industrialises, people move from primary to
    secondary(later tertiary sectors)

    3.
    - Potential Available urban zones nearby - Places which have been undiscovered are
    eventually turned into a town or village (possibly become a city later on(london,
    Swansea, Edinburgh, Cardiff, París, New york)

    Relationship between poverty and urbanisation:

    1. Cause: lack of opportunities in rural areas, lack of resources and services


    2. Effect: increased urbanisation - increased poverty, overcrowding, unemployment,
    housing shortages or unaffordable housing $$$ = creation of slums

    Danger/Challenges of Urbanisation:
    - Health(pollution, congestion)
    - Inequality - wealth disparity
    - Sustainability - environmental impact

    Benefits/Opportunities:
    - “Connectivity”
    - Building a global connected network - promotes peace and prevents war,
    opportunities for trade & economic growth on a national/international level
    - Economic growth/economic power
    - Innovations - solutions to global issues(climate change)

    Squatter settlement - slums “illegal housing”:

    - Disease prone - waterborne illnesses, infectious disease, vector-borne (mosquitoes)


    - Poor transportation
    - Weak buildings
    - No waste disposal / no sewage system
    - Poorly equipped health care
    - Crowded

    8 pt Essay Format:

    - Introduction - can be just a sentence, should reference the figure (graph or image).
    “As evidenced by Figure 3c, the global urban population has surpassed the rural population
    & continues to grow.”
    - Points directly answering the question - Economic development, Natural population
    growth (births), more opportunities
    - Need to add conclusion - 1 sentence, restate your point & reasoning, DO NOT DROP
    OFF!!

    Urbanisation processes:
    - Rural dilution is the urban way of life that spread into rural areas.
    - Urbanisation pathway shows how the level of urbanisation changes over time, where

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