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Definitions
100
Opportunities that attract people to an urban area.
What is pull factors.
100
A land zone that incorporates business primarily involved in the selling of goods and services.
What is retail.
100
A city of 10 million or more occupants.
What is a megacity.
100
The name given to slum areas in Brazil.
What is a favela.
100
Managing and using resources in such a way that future generations will still have access to the necessary elements for a productive life.
What is sustainability.
200
Unemployment is an example of this category.
What is push factors.
200
Banks, investment services and stock exchange institutes are all part of this land function.
What is financial zones.
200
An assessment of how many planets it would take to sustain a person's way of life.
What is an ecological footprint.
200
The number of people living in Dharavi, Mumbai.
What is approximately 1 million people.
200
The migration of people from cities to rural areas (or less urbanised).
What is counter-urbanisation.
300
The term given to the movement of people from rural to urban areas.
What is rural-urban migration.
300
A model of city growth that focuses on the concept of even growth outwards from a CBD.
What is Burgess' Model or Concentric Zones.
300
Cities that contribute to world finance, culture, entertainment and information systems.
What is world cities.
300
Percentage of people employed in Dharavi.
What is 85%.
300
Planning and construction that minimises the environmental impact, and considers the social and economic consequences to enhance living spaces.
What is sustainable development.
400
The process of urban areas increasing and the number of people living in urban areas.
What is urbanisation.
400
The year that Homer Hoyt proposed his city growth model.
What is 1939.
400
The largest city in the developed world.
What is Tokyo.
400
Lack of sanitation, pollution, limited water and electricity access, poor housing standards.
What is characteristics of a shanty town.
400
A completely sustainable city, purpose built and designed in Abu Dubai.
What is Masdar City.
500
The time period that developed nations experienced rapid urbanisation.
What is between the 1950s and 1960s.
500
A model of city growth that explains the development of smaller business districts within suburbs.
What is Multiple Nuclei.
500
The percentage of people living in urbanised areas globally.
What is 50%.
500
Two other world-known slum areas in the developing world.
What is Kibera, Kenya and Rocinha, Brazil.
500
The sprawl of urban areas or cities due to the increasing number of suburbs.
What is suburbanisation (urban sprawl)