Urbanization Basics
This term describes the permanently inhabited portion of Earth’s surface.
What is the ecumene?
A city with more than 10 million people.
What is a megacity?
The model explaining urban growth through transportation technology.
What is Borchert’s Model of Urban Growth?
The movement of people from cities to suburbs.
What is suburbanization?
The world’s largest metacity
What is Japan?
The process of developing towns and cities is called this.
What is urbanization?
A chain of interconnected cities is called this.
What is a megalopolis?
In Borchert’s model, this epoch introduced airport hubs and cars spreading cities outward.
What is the Auto-Air-Amenity epoch?
Large fast-growing suburbs with over 100,000 residents are called these.
What are boomburbs?
High birth rates and rural-to-urban migration caused rapid growth of megacities in these countries.
What are developing countries?
These areas have high concentrations of people.
What are urban areas?
A city with more than 20 million people.
What is a metacity?
The earliest settlements were often located near these geographic features.
What are river valleys?
A suburb with its own economic center is called this.
What is an edge city?
One example of a top world city in 2025.
What is London?
Urbanization sped up rapidly during this century.
What is the 20th century?
A city and its surrounding connected urban areas form this.
What is a metropolitan area?
This allowed some people to stop farming and specialize in other jobs.
What is agricultural surplus?
Moving from urban areas back to rural areas is known as this.
What is counter-urbanization?
Megacities in poorer countries often struggle because they lack these.
What are resources?
These two developments allowed the first permanent settlements to form.
What are domestication of plants and animals?
This type of city influences the world economically, politically, and culturally.
What is a world city?
This process happens when cities spread outward because of improved transportation and population growth.
What is urban sprawl?
These wealthy communities are located beyond the suburbs.
What are exurbs?
These three areas make world cities influential.
What are economic, cultural, and political influence?