Urbanisation

“Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.”

​Urbanisation

Lesson Objectives

IGCSE Geography

• Explain the following key ideas:

• Urbanisation

• Rural - Urban Migration

• Rural depopulation

• Counter urbanisation

• Megacity​

The increase in the percentage of a population living in urban areas.

This can be good and bad at the same time

Urbanisation

Draw

Draw something that you believe will be an issue with rapid urbanisation

Anchorage, Alaska (United States)

​Mumbai, India

Open Ended

Why do you believe people in rural areas would want or need to move to the city?

• Drought

• Natural disasters

• lack of services

​​Physical

• lack of jobs

• The need to make a living

Economical

• Desire for a better education

• healthcare

• Safety

Social

Factors causing Urbanisation

​Push and Pull factors to Rural Migration

Pros and cons to urbanisation

• Negative effects:

  • Young adults leave rural areas

  • "Brain drain"

  • Not enough people to keep the services running

• Positive effects:

  • Less pressure on resources in rural areas

  • Remittances​

More than 2/3 of the worlds urban population is now in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and the carribean.

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Multiple Choice

Which is the correct order of settlement size in a hierarchy from smallest to largest?

• hamlet, town, village, city, capital city

• village, hamlet, town, city, capital city

• hamlet, village, town, city, capital city

• capital city, city, town, village, hamlet

Multiple Select

Urbanization is...?

• an increase in the percentage of population living in an urban area

• Decreasing globally

• Increasing globally

• when an urban area expands and creates new buildings

Multiple Choice

Which type of settlement site is shown in the picture?

• wet point site

• defensive location

• clustered settlement

• nodal point

Multiple Choice

Which settlement pattern is shown in the picture?

• clustered

• dispersed

• nucleated

• linear

Multiple Choice

Which type of shop or service is shown in the picture?

• high order

• comparison

• low order

• luxury

Multiple Choice

This is an example of?

• A low-order service with a large sphere of influence

• A high-order service with a large sphere of influence

• A low-order service with a small sphere of influence

• A high-order service with a small sphere of influence

Concept Map

Use the textbook and your notes in doing this activity.

Poll

How confident are you?