Vocab
What is a city that is judged to be an important nodal point in the global economic system?
A global city.
What is the outward growth of town and cities to engulf surrounding villages/ rural areas?
Sub-urbanization.
What is a small settlement with population under 100 people?
A Hamlet.
What does rural mean?
Countryside; opposite of urban
Define the term green belt. (1)
Areas of open land retained round city over town
What is the relative ease with which a place can be reached from other locations.
Accessibility.
What is a process where a population of a city, after a period of clear decline, begins to rise again?
Re-urbanization.
What is a cluster of human settlement or community?
A Village.
What does the term Urbanization mean
A process whereby an increasing proportion of the population in a geographical area lives in urban settlements.
Suggest why urbanization could have positive results (2)
Reduce poverty; reduce inequality
What is a mapping exercise by local government which decides how land should be used in the various parts of a ton or city?
Land use Zoning.
What is a process of population where an increasing number of people move out of large urban areas to rural areas or smaller urban settlement?
Counter-urbanization.
What is an an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is generally larger than a village and smaller than a city?
A town.
state 4 types of urbanization
Urbanization; re urbanization, suburbanization, and counter Urbanization
Give your own example of real world urban-rural migration (1)
No wrong answer
What is gentrification?
A process in which wealthier people move into, renovate, and restore run-down housing in an inner city or other neglected area.
What is the Cycle of Urbanization?
A model comprising of urban changes from the growth of a city to counter urbanization through to re-urbanization.
What is a city?
A city is a large permanent urban settlement with a more definitive administrative system - good transport linkages, utilities, and sanitation system.
Give an example of rural and urban areas in Florida.
Free response
explain what rural populations are compromised of. (4)
The rural population comprises people living in the countryside in farms; isolated houses; hamlets; and villages.
What is a Urban Growth?
The absolute increase in physical size and total population of urban areas.
What is Urban Revolution?
A major change in the form and growth of settlement due to technological advance.
What is a metropolis?
A metropolis is a large city which acts as a significant economical, cultural, and political center for a region - it is also a hub of international commerce, connections and communication.
What is rural landscape?
Mental or visual picture of a countryside scenery
Suggest why Rural landscapes are hard to define (2)
Rural areas are constantly changing; and vary from place to place