Urbanisation and Sustainability Year 8

What is urbanisation?

• The growth and expansion of urban areas involving the movement of people to concentrated areas forming towns and cities.

• Factors that drive people towards the city.

• Factors that attract people to the city.

• A landscape altered by humans, usually made up of cities, roads, buildings, bridges.

This is a built landscape.

• False

• True

What type of landscape is this?

• Built landscape

• Natural landscape

Access to educational and medical services are examples of the ​ (a)   of urbanisation.

• benefits
• consequences

While urbanisation has benefits it can also lead to consequences.

• True

• False

Improvements to living conditions in the present without risking the resources of future generations can be described as...

• Sustainable development

• Urbanisation

• Built landscape

• Ecological footprint

Three ways to measure the sustainability of a city include environment, quality of life, and ​ (a)  

• resilience
• redesign
• economy
• friendliness

Factors that drive people towards the city

Factors that urban areas have that make people want to move there

Three things to keep in mind when thinking of sustainable development are social ​ (a)   , economic ​ (b)   , and climate and ​ (c)  

• progress
• development
• environment
• society