3.1-3 Urbanisation

Question 1

What is the economic influence of a primate city?

Answer 1

Investments - businesses locate and invest in infrastructure and need other services.
Migration - more jobs = more workers = more migration = more buildings.
Transport - because of importance, biggest airports, roads and rail way development = more investment and migration.

Question 2

Define urbanisation

Answer 2

The growth in the proportion of a countries population living in an urban area.

Question 3

Describe the change in urbanisation from 2010 to 2020

Answer 3

While most developed areas have had little to no increase in urbanisation, developing regions such as Africa have had a significant and stable increase.

Question 4

Why will the level of urbanisation change from 2020 and onwards

Answer 4

Asia and Africa would have 50% urbanised and the other developed areas would have started to urbanise further again.

Question 5

Define a megacity

Answer 5

A city with a population of 10 million and over.

Question 6

Explain the change in location and number of megacities

Answer 6

Over 50 years the location of most megacities has changed from developed to developing/emerging countries. The number of megacities has also increased Drastically.

Question 7

Where has the greatest growth of megacities occurred.

Answer 7

Most megacities are in emerging countries such as India due to an attraction of jobs.

Question 8

Define a primate city

Answer 8

A city so important to a country that it dominates its region economically, financially and politically.

Question 9

Why is a primate city so popular

Answer 9

A primate city is popular due to people wanting to move there for its opportunities

Question 10

Two factors that have caused urbanisation to occur rapidly in some places

Answer 10

A huge growth in jobs attracting young workers and better services and education attracting more families

Question 11

Define rural to urban migration

Answer 11

Migration of people from the rural area to an urban area of the same country.

Question 12

Define and give an example of a push factor

Answer 12

A factor that causes the population to move away and ruins any chance of migration to that area. Eg - a lack of investments and services in that area

Question 13

Define and give an example of a pull factor

Answer 13

A factor that attracts a population increase through migration. Eg - better paid jobs

Question 14

Explain why some cities in developing countries are growing.

Answer 14

Cities in developing countries would be the only areas offering well paid and well educated jobs. Meaning a lot of people are moving.

Question 15

Explain why cities in developed countries are growing

Answer 15

Cities in developed countries are growing through natural increases and international and national migration as they have the best jobs available

Question 16

Difference between the growth of Kampala and new york

Answer 16

Kampala has most of its increase from national and natural increase while new york has a range of national, international and natural increase.

Question 17

Why is Detroit shrinking

Answer 17

Due to the biggest motoring company going automatic and bringing its supplies from abroad, this meant most people were unemployed and the rich moved away to the suburbs while the poor were forced to stay as they cannot sell their homes.

Question 18

Define informal and formal economies

Answer 18

Informal - comes from unregular, unofficial and informal jobs where no records are kept and they have no contacts or employers rights.
Formal - comes from legal standards, that include paying taxes and contracts from an official business.

Question 19

Give an example and name the different name sectors

Answer 19

Primary - farmer
Secondary - car manufacturing
Tertiary - lawyer, waiter
Quaternary - scientist.

Question 20

Describe the change as a country goes from a developing to a developed country.

Answer 20

As a country developes more its economy becomes more official, working conditions become safer and better and most primary and secondary sectors are abandoned.