Urbanisation
Year 8 🏙️ Human Geography Urban growth, megacities, and challenges of urbanisation.
🏙️ Urban Growth
Urbanisation is the increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas.
Urbanisation in LIDCs
Rural-urban migration: pull factors (jobs, services) attract people to cities. Rapid informal growth, squatter settlements.
Squatter Settlements
Self-built housing on marginal land. Also called: favelas (Brazil), shanty towns, slums. Lack clean water, sanitation.
Counter-urbanisation
In HICs: people move from cities to rural/suburban areas. Better transport links, remote working, cost of city living.
Megacities
Over 10 million people. 2024: ~35 megacities. Mostly in Asia and Global South. Tokyo (37m), Delhi (32m).
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