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Urban enviroments - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Communication and transportation is centralised
      - Cheaper to provide goods and services in one place than spread across several cities
    - - Young people want to live in megacities for better opportunities
      - Internal growth within the city and more people coming in the city, because of natural population growth
    - - As a city prospers, it acts as a beacon to people and businesses
      - Generating further need for skills and labour and job growth
      - The megacity continualy grows
    - - Encourages people to move in as there are lots of jobs opportunities and money
      - All megacities have service centres within the formal economic centre
  - - - New Dehli
      - beijing
      - New York
      - Tokyo
- - - - Fast-paced life
      - high density of buildings and people
      - Large
      - Better economy and employment
    - - More people now live in urbanised areas
        
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      - Higher rate of Urbanisation in developing countries
      - Lower rate of urbanisation in developed countries as high percentage of people live in towns and cities
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    - - Urbanisation has increased rapidly, for example
        
        In 1900 there were just 2 cities with more than 1 million people
        
        In 2018 the number has risen to 512
        
        In 1970 only 4 cities with more than 10 million people
        
        In 2015 it rose to 33 cities
    - - push-pulll factors
        
        urban pull factors
        
        improved services
        
        job opportunities
        
        higher wages
        
        rural push factors
        
        mechanisation of farming (less jobs)
        
        Lack of opportunities
        
        limited services
        
        harsh life style
      - Higher rates of population growth
      - economic development is located in cities
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      - Urban process timeline
        
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        Urban settlements first appear because of agglomeration
        
        Towns start to grow, they expand outwards in the process of suburbanisation
        
        The town continues to grow and people move out and start to commute to the city
        
        People and business start to go into smaller settlements or towns, this is called counter-urbanisation
        
        The revival of old urban areas and rebuilding to cause urban regeneration
        
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        second homes and early retirement
        
        Increased wealth allowing for more housing and traveling
        
        agricultural decline
        
        Caused by mobility and accessibility
        
        Urban services still used
        
        People start living in rural settlements and go to work in the city, these towns are normally called sleeper settlements
        
        These settlements continue to have links to the town/city
        
        The new suburbs(rural area) are made up of mostly houses but also include places of employment and services
        
        the building densities are generally lower than in the older parts of the town
        
        The town/city expands
        
        A city or town is created after this process.
        
        Agglomeration is the accumulation of people in a place
        
        People gather together and live in one place where they sell goods.
        
        Small villages start to develop
    - - speed of economic development
        
        faster growth of secondary and tertiary sector leads to faste rurbanisation
        
        Economic growth drives Urbanisation
      - Rate of population growth
        
        Economic growth gives supply for labour
        
        rural-urban migration as people want better payed jobs or more opportunities