HUMAN GEOGRAPHY topic 13-16

Barcelona is located on the ___ coast

• Black sea

• Egean

• Mediterranean

• Atlantic

Barcelona, since the 19th century, grew a ...

• Concentric system

• Linear system

• Grid-iron pattern

• Radial pattern

As cities and towns increase in size they become...

• stressful and difficult places to live

• famous

• easy places to live

Urban decay occurs when...

• people leave the city to live in the country side

• some parts of the city become undesirable to live

• the government expel people from their houses

A metropolitan area is an area that consist of...

• a low populated urban area and it's port/ airport

• a really small city, almost a town

• a group of villages who share resources

• a densely populated urban agglomeration and it's adjacent territories (high economic degree)

Atlanta is the capital city of ....

• Washington (USA)

• Massachusetts (USA)

• Georgia (USA)

• Mexico

Urbanisation is...

• the decrease in the proportion of people living in towns and cities

• the average proportion of people living in villages

• the increase in proportion of people living in towns and cities

Since 1950 urbanisation has slowed in most ...

• LEDCs

• MEDCs

There are 3 main types of factors causing movement of people from the rural areas to the major cities:

• - economical

  - socio-political

  - astrological

• - physical

  - economical

  - socio-political

• - physical

  -chemical

  - economical

Urban regeneration is the renovation of existing housing but also includes:

• cleaning the outsides of old buildings by sand- blasting

• blowing up the abandoned houses

• paying people to live in empty houses