Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geography Changing Urban
Environments
- Urbanisation
- Happening faster in poorer
countries compared to
richer countries
- most people in richer
countries already live in
urban areas
- 80% of UK live in urban
areas
- Rural-Urban Migration
- Moving from the
countryside into a city
- Happens in both poor and
richer countries
- For different reasons
- Reasons
- Poorer Countries
- Shortage of services in rural
areas (Schools, Hospitals,
Power and water)
- they BELIEVE the standard of living is
better in urban areas (but this is
often not the case)
- There are more jobs in urban
areas because of better
infrastructure and a larger
workforce
- Richer Countries