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Urbanisation
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- 1ecological footprintThe amount of land/water area a person in a particular country needs in order to produce their energy requirements and dispose of their wastes.
- 2globalisationA process caused by advances in technology, which involves the web of interrelationships that have formed between countries, companies, people, resources, cultures and money.
- 3industrialisationThe development of factories and the organisation of industry on a large scale due to the introduction of modern machinery from around 200 years ago.
- 4infrastructureThe essential facilities that cities need, including water and power supplies, roads and public transport.
- 5megacityA city that has a population of 10 million people or more.
- 6population densityThe number of people per unit of area in a city, usually written as people per square kilometres.
- 7ruralThe farming areas of a country that has a low population density with people mainly employed in farming or mining activities.
- 8rural-urban migrationThe process that involves the movement of people from rural areas to cities.
- 9slumThe poorest area of a city with inadequate housing and few services.
- 10squatter settlementAn unplanned housing area where people have no legal ownership of the land and build houses out of any materials they can find, aka a shanty town.
- 11urbanCity areas of high population density with people employed in manufacturing, office and service activities.
- 12urban sprawlThe constant spreading out of a city as the population grows and new suburbs develop.
- 13urbanisationThe process involving the increase in the percentage of a country's population in cities.
- 14world cityA city in which activities occur that influence, organise and control finance, business and trade around the world.
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- high school Geography Flashcards on Urbanisation, created by Mauatua Naomi on 29/08/2017.
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