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- 1a world city is city generally considered to be an important node in the global economic system. it's:economic, fashion media and arts, learning and resource center. examples; london, tokyo, new york, dubai, sau paulo and shanghai.mega-cities tend to be very large cities they're metropolitan areas , they have over 10 million inhabitants.
examples;mexico city, delhi, tokyo, new york and shanghai - 2millionaire cities, are cities with over 1 million inhabitants.Euro cities, in 2007 they were over 130 euro cities that span across 30 countries. the founding members were: Barcelona, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan and Rotterdam. it was established by the mayors of these countries back in 1986.
- 3push factors from rural: population growth, war and conflict, natural disasters, cash crops, health, lack of services, agricultural problems.pull factors to urban:
employment prospects, access to services such as health care and education, better quality of life, better social diversity. - 4global pattern of urbanisation: almost 50% of people live in towns and cities, 19% of us live in cities with over 1 million inhabitants, there are currently 20 mega cities, this is due to rapid urbanisation over the past 50 years as the LEDCs have been developing.reasons for the urbanisation process: agricultural revolution-fewer people needed to work the land, industrial revolution- brought people into towns-explosion in consumer goods-better means of transport-growth of economy, Knowledge revolution-crop yield increased-enough food available for people in cities-food prices fell-healthier population meant a decline in deaths so city population continue to thrive.
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