Challenges of an Urbanising world keywords

Question 1

Urban meaning

Answer 1

towns and cities.

Question 2

Rural meaning

Answer 2

the countryside.

Question 3

Rural to Urban migration meaning

Answer 3

people move into towns and cities from the countryside.

Question 4

Megacity meaning

Answer 4

a city with a population of more than 10 million.

Question 5

Primate cities meaning

Answer 5

a city that dominates the economic and political system in a country.

Question 6

Migration meaning

Answer 6

the movement of people from one place to another.

Question 7

Internal/National migration meaning

Answer 7

movement from one part of a country to another.

Question 8

International migration

Answer 8

movement of people from one country to another.

Question 9

Socio-economic processes

Answer 9

changes related to people and jobs, money or trade.

Question 10

Pull factor meaning

Answer 10

something attractive about a new place.

Question 11

Push factor meaning

Answer 11

something they dislike about the place they live in.

Question 12

Industrialisation meaning

Answer 12

the growth of industry.

Question 13

Deindustrialisation meaning

Answer 13

industrial decline.

Question 14

Primary job meaning

Answer 14

the extraction of raw material from the ground or sea.

Question 15

Secondary job meaning

Answer 15

the manufacture of goods using raw materials.

Question 16

Tertiary job meaning

Answer 16

the provision of a service.

Question 17

Quaternary job meaning

Answer 17

the provision of information and expert help.

Question 18

Developing city meaning

Answer 18

a city that is more like to be an important point of trade regionally, nationally and internationally.

Question 19

Emerging city meaning

Answer 19

a city that the secondary sector is important and there will be established industrial infrastructure and good national and international transport connections.

Question 20

Developed city meaning

Answer 20

a city where the tertiary sector dominates and skill and pay varies.

Question 21

Formal jobs meaning

Answer 21

jobs where people work for regular pay, have employment rights and pay taxes. E.g. street vendors.

Question 22

Informal jobs meaning

Answer 22

unofficial work, often unskilled, without employment rights and regular pay. E.g. factory workers.

Question 23

Urbanisation meaning

Answer 23

an increase in percentage of people living in urban areas.

Question 24

Suburbanisation meaning

Answer 24

people move from the city centre to the edge of the city - the suburbs.

Question 25

De-industrialisation meaning

Answer 25

industry begins to decline.

Question 26

Counter-urbanisation meaning

Answer 26

people move out of larger towns and cities to live into villages and rural areas.

Question 27

Regeneration meaning

Answer 27

run-down inner city areas are redeveloped.

Question 28

Commercial land use meaning

Answer 28

offices and shops.

Question 29

Industrial land use meaning

Answer 29

factories and warehouses.

Question 30

Residential land use meaning

Answer 30

houses.

Question 31

CBD land use zone meaning

Answer 31

tightly packed roads, town hall, city centre, bus and railway stations, car parks, shops and government offices.

Question 32

Inner city land use zone meaning

Answer 32

straight roads with terraced houses, factories and industrial areas, possibly redeveloped.

Question 33

Suburbs land use zone meaning

Answer 33

residential areas, with bigger houses, garages and more space.

Question 34

Rural-urban fringe land use zone meaning

Answer 34

much further from the CBD, beyond the edge of the city, includes large housing estates.