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Why do people live in cities? - Coggle Diagram
Why do people live in cities?
IV. The disadvantages of cities
Environmental disadvantages
Social disadvantages
VI. Urbanisation in Indonesia
Urban growth in Indonesia
Jakarta: Indonesia’s
megacity
I. The Urban Explosion
for the thousand of years of human history, cities have been the exception rather than the rule
this all changed about 200 years ago with the arrival of the indusrial
urbanisation
today there are more than 7 billion people on earth and just over half of them live in cities
II. How cities are organised
Models of city land use
By mapping the main land uses in a range of cities it is possible to identify similiar patterns.
It shows how a city is divided into sectors (similiar to slices of a cake) that are used for different purposes.
Geographers identify patterns in the way areas and features of cities are organised.
III. The advantages of cities
Social advantages
Economic advantages
V. The rise of the megacities