Settlement Dynamics (AS Level Geo)

A mental/ visual picture of a countryside as how it is perceived

• Green Belt

• Rural Landscape

• Urbanization of Poverty

A process of population de- centralization where an increasing number of people move out of large urban areas to rural areas or smaller urban settlement

• Counterurbanisation

• Urban Revolution

• Urban growth

A process where a population of a city, after a period of clear decline, begins to rise again

• Suburbanisation

• Land Use Zoning

• Reurbanisation

A process in which wealthier people move into, renovate and restore run-down housing in an inner city or other neglected area.

• Global city

• Gentrification

• Accesibility

A major change in the form and growth of

settlement due to technological advance

• Global City

• Urban Growth

• Urban Revolution

The decrease in population of rural areas

– by out-migration and falling birth rates

• Urbanisation

• Counterurbanisation

• Rural depopulation

Areas of open land retained around city where

development is restricted

• Green Belt

• Global City

• Rural Landscape

The absolute increase in physical size and

total population of urban areas

• Urbanisation

• Urban Growth

• Gentrification

The process of decentralization where an increasing number of urbanites, especially the affluent ones, move from large urban areas to smaller urban areas and rural areas.

• rural depopulation

• urbanisation

• counterurbanisations

The outward growth of town and cities to engulf surrounding villages/ rural areas

• suburbanisation

• urban growth

• counterurbanisation