Geography GCSE Urbanisation

What is urbanisation?

Where and when did urbanisation begin?

What caused the Industrial Revolution?

What is the rate of urbanisation in MEDCs?

What is the rate of urbanisation in LEDCs?

What is a million city?

What is a Mega city?

What is rural to urban migration?

What is a push factor?

What is a pull factor?

What is a favela?

Name 3 environmental conditions in a favela

Name 5 social conditions in the favelas

State for economic conditions in favelas.

What is a self-help housing scheme? (eg Rocinha)

What are the advantages of a self-help housing scheme?

What are the disadvantages to self-help housing schemes

What are local authority schemes to aid favelas? eg The Favela Bairro Project

What are the environmental improvements produced in the local authority schemes to aid favelas?

What are the economic improvements created by local authority schemes for favelas?

What are the social improvements created by local authority schemes in favelas?

What are the disadvantages to local authority schemes?

What is building a new town for the rich? (eg Barra de Tijuca)

What are the advantages of building a new town?

What are the disadvantages of building a new town?

What is the clearance of slums?

What are the advantages of slum clearance?

What are the disadvantages of slum clearance?

What is a site and service scheme? (eg Dandora scheme Nairobi Kenya)

What are the advantages of site and service schemes?

What are the disadvantages to Site and Service schemes?

What is encouraging migrants to return to the rural area?

What are the advantages of encouraging migrants to return to rural areas?

What are the disadvantages of encouraging migrants to return to rural areas?

What are the problems of rapid urbanisation in poorer parts of the world?

What are the causes of water pollution?

What are the knock on effects of water pollution?

How can water pollution be solved or managed?

What are the causes of air pollution?

What are the knock-on effects of air pollution?

How can air pollution be managed/solved? (Mumbai)

What are the causes of waster pollution?

What are the knock-on effects of waste pollution?

How can waste pollution be managed?

State 4 push factors

State 4 pull factors

What is another reason for rapid growth besides rural-urban migration?

What does the Burgess city model show of a town's morphology (internal structure)?

Where is the CBD (Central Business District) located in both MEDC and LEDC cities?

State one exception to where the CBD (Central Business District) is located

Is the CBD (Central Business district) accessible

What can you find within the CBD (Central Business District)

Why does the CBD (Central Business District) have the highest land value per square meter?

Why are lot's of businesses in the CBD (Central Business District)?

What is the PLVP (Peak land value point)?

What kind of shops are high order shops and why? Where are they located?

Where would you normally find independent stores?

What can you find on connecting streets?

What are middle order shops?

Why does the CBD (central business district) have the tallest buildings?

Why is it that shops on the high street tend to occupy the ground floor?

Where are houses and businesses built on the high street?

Why don't people tend to live in the CBD?

What is a city model?

Why is the Hoyte city model a better model than the Burgess city model?

How are the MEDC and LEDC city models similar?

How are MEDC and LEDC city models different?

What can stop a city from expanding?

Where is the inner city located?

Why is the inner city the original zone of industry?

Why does the inner city contain high density houses?

Why is the inner city a zone of transition?

Why is the inner city an area of high-rise flats?

Why is the inner city an area of smart new developments?

How can you find the inner city on a map

Where are the suburbs located?

What are 1930 suburb houses like?

What are 1960 suburb houses like?

What are 1980 suburb houses like?

What do 1930 and 1960 suburbs look like on maps?

What do 1980 suburbs look like on maps?

Why are the suburbs and area of modern factories (high-tech industry) and business parks?

Why are the out of town shops in the suburbs?

What is beyond the suburbs?

What are the social problems within the CBD (Central Business District)?

What are the economic problems within the CBD (Central Business District)?

What re the environmental problems within the CBD (Central Business District)?

What are the socail problems with the inner city industrial zone?

What are the economic problems within the inner-city industrial zone?

What are the environmental problems within the inner-city industrial zone?

What are the social problems within the inner-city housing?

What are the economic problems within inner-city housing?

What are the environmental problems within inner-city housing?

What are the social problems within the suburbs?

What are the economic problems within the suburbs?

What are the environmental problems within the suburbs?

What are the social problems within the rural-urban fringe?

What are the economic problems within the rural-urban fringe?

What are the environmental problems within the rural-urban fringe?

Why do CBDs (Central Business Districts) need revitalizing?

Explain the structure of the CBD

Why did Reading build the Oracle?