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urban areas include
towns and cities
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rural areas include
villages and places in the countryside
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urbanisation
an increase in the % of people living in a country living in towns and cities
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urban growth
individual towns or cities growing
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the world is becoming more ..... , with more people now living in ...... and .... than in ...... (......) areas . the approx figures are ..... billion urban : ....... billion rurual
- urbanised
- towns
- cities
- rural
- countryside
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- 3
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prior to the 1980's it was ...... countries that had most people living in urban areas but then it changed , and now it is clearly ....... countries that have most urban people
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rapid urbanisation is occuring in
developing countries
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morph/morphology
the shape of things
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urban morphology
the term used to describe the structure/pattern of cities , when viewed from above
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differernt land uses tend to group together to give
distinctive urban zones
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land use
what purpose land is actually used for e.g. shops , houses , factories , open space etc
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urban zone
an area of a town or city where they type of land use is mostly all the same e.g. all housing or all factories etc
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most developing world cities have ..... urban zones
5
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most developed world cities have ..... urban zones
3
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what is land use
land use means the function of the land i.e. what purpose the land in a particular area is used for
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in rural areas common land uses are often
farming and forestry
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in urban areas common land uses are often
housing or retail (shops) or warehouses/officies/services (business/industry)
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in developed cities land values .... towards the city centre so buildings become :
- increase
- higher as it is cheaper to build upwards than outwards as it uses less land
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typical UK towns/cities tend to have ..... different areas , or zones of different land use . When looked from above they have ..... urban .....
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urban zones
an area of a town/city where the land uses are mostly all the same e.g. mostly all houses and shops
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The 3 UK urban zones are
- CBD (central business district)
- inner city
- suburbs (often split into inner and outer suburbs)
- beyond the outer suburb is the rurual urban fringe , where the city merges with the surrounding countryside
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the developed city urban zones are
- CBD (central business district)
- inner city
- suburbs (often split into inner and outer suburbs)
- beyond the outer suburb is the rurual urban fringe , where the city merges with the surrounding countryside
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megacities
these are urban areas with more than 10m inhabitants
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millionaire cities
urban areas of more than 1m inhabitants
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give examples of megacities
- Jakarta
- Mexico City
- Sao Paulo
- New York
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give examples of millionaire cities
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in 1950 .....% of the urban population was in developed nations
86
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in 1950 .... % of the urban population was in devloping nations
14
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in 2005 .....% of the urban population was in developed nations
37
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in 2005 .....% of the urban population was in developing nations
63
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