Urbanisation in MEDCS Flashcards
What is urbanisation?
An increase in proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas.
What is an urban area?
A built up area.
Such as town or city.
What is a rural area?
Area of countryside.
The number of people living in an urban environment tend to increase because of what?
The industrialisation of a country.
When did the UK and many other MEDC countries urbanise?
Around the 18th and 19th century.
Give a reason why people migrated from rural areas?
Due to the mechanisation in farming.
What does mechanisation in farming mean?
Process of changing from working largely by hand with animals to doing that with machinery.
During the 18th and 19th century what areas of cities developed?
Inner cities.
As rows of terraced housing was built for workers.
The UKS society today is what?
Mostly urban.
90% of the population living in towns an cities.
In the UK where are most people choosing to live?
On the edge of urban areas.
Many relocating to the country side.
What is counter-urbanisation?
When large numbers of people move from urban areas to surrounding countryside or rural areas.
