Urbanization & Megacities
This term describes cities with over 10 million people.
What is a megacity?
This refers to movement of wealthier people into older city areas.
What is gentrification?
This rule states the largest city is twice as big as the second largest.
What is the Rank-Size Rule?
These cities have major influence over global economic systems.
What are world cities (global cities
This region of the world has the highest number of megacities today.
What is Asia?
This term describes expansion of cities into rural areas.
What is urban sprawl?
A country dominated by one very large city has this.
What is a primate city?
An example of a global city in the U.S.
What is New York City?
This process describes the movement of people from rural to urban areas.
What is urbanization?
This occurs when wealthier residents move out of cities.
What is suburbanization?
An example of a primate city.
An example of a primate city.
What is Paris (or Mexico City, Bangkok, etc.)
This sector is most dominant in global cities.
What is the tertiary/quaternary sector
Urban growth is fastest in these types of countries.
What are developing countries?
This is the lack of access to basic services like water or sanitation.
What is infrastructure inequality?
This pattern shows evenly distributed cities by size.
What is rank-size distribution?
This process links cities across the world economically and culturally.
What is globalization?
This model explains how urban populations grow due to both migration and natural increase.
What is urban population growth (push/pull + natural increase)?
This term describes efforts to make cities environmentally friendly.
What is urban sustainability?
This term describes how cities are spread across an area.
What is spatial distribution?
Cities like London and Tokyo influence this on a global scale.
What are finance, culture, and politics?