Vocabulary
The movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
Difference between the number of births and deaths in a population.
What is natural increase?
Why cities are often centers of economic opportunity.
What is they concentrate industries, jobs, and services?
Shift from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft example.
What is a corporation hiring workers based on contracts?
City invests in green spaces and public transit. Likely outcome?
What is improved quality of life and environmental health?
Number of people per unit area.
What is population density?
How increased population density affects housing and infrastructure.
What is it creates strain on housing and infrastructure?
How urbanization can increase social inequality.
What is by creating unequal access to resources and jobs?
How urbanization affects education.
What is it increases demand for schools and teachers?
Rapid urbanization without planning leads to...?
What is increased housing shortages and informal settlements?
Society based on close personal relationships and traditions.
What is Gemeinschaft?
Why urban planners consider population growth in city design.
What is to manage resources, transportation, and services efficiently?
How urbanization impacts cultural diversity.
What is it increases interaction among different groups?
How migration shapes cultural identity.
What is it leads to dynamic and evolving cultures?
Best policy to address problems from rapid urbanization.
What is investing in public transportation and affordable housing?
The spread of cities into surrounding rural areas.
What is urban sprawl?
How rural-to-urban migration changes household structures.
What is it often leads to smaller, nuclear households?
How population growth contributes to urban sprawl.
What is it pushes cities to expand outward for housing?
How urbanization changes political participation
What is it increases opportunities for collective action?
Solution balancing population growth and sustainability.
What is smart growth and urban planning?
Reasons people are forced to leave a place.
What are push factors?
A city grows rapidly without planning. What is the likely outcome?
What is housing shortages and informal settlements?
How urbanization influences environmental sustainability
What is it can both strain resources and create efficient solutions?
Evaluate relationship between urbanization and economic development.
What is it can promote growth but may increase inequality?
Negative externality of urban growth.
What is air pollution?