Urban processes

Over 4 billion people globally live in urban areas.

• True

• False

Lowest rates of urbanisation exist in

• SE Asia

• Africa

• Europe

• Nth America

the outward growth of urban development which may engulf surrounding villages and towns into a larger urban agglomeration.

• urbanization

• sub-urbanisation

• counter urbanization

• population growth

the physical spreading of a city into surrounding countryside areas, known as

• urbanisation

• suburbanisation

• urban sprawl

• urban decline

the process of increasing or maintaining the density of housing in established residential areas

• urban sprawl

• urban decay

• consolidation

• conglomeration

This image shows the process of

• urban decay

• suburbanisation

• consolidation

• urban sprawl

This image shows the process of

• consolidation

• urban sprawl

• urban decay

• infill houding

process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas

• urban decay

• negative urbanisation

• counter urbanisation

• consolidation

Which of the following is NOT a push factor that leads to counterurbanisation?

• noise pollution

• lack of gardens

• over-crowding

• safer for children

Which of the following is a push factor that leads to counterurbanisation?

• larger houses with gardens

• lack of gardens

• lower crime rates

• safer for children