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Flashcards by kyle_frith_123, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by kyle_frith_123
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| a world city is city generally considered to be an important node in the global economic system. it's:economic, fashion media and arts, learning and resource center. examples; london, tokyo, new york, dubai, sau paulo and shanghai. | mega-cities tend to be very large cities they're metropolitan areas , they have over 10 million inhabitants. examples;mexico city, delhi, tokyo, new york and shanghai |
| millionaire cities, are cities with over 1 million inhabitants. | Euro cities, in 2007 they were over 130 euro cities that span across 30 countries. the founding members were: Barcelona, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan and Rotterdam. it was established by the mayors of these countries back in 1986. |
| push factors from rural: population growth, war and conflict, natural disasters, cash crops, health, lack of services, agricultural problems. | pull factors to urban: employment prospects, access to services such as health care and education, better quality of life, better social diversity. |
| global pattern of urbanisation: almost 50% of people live in towns and cities, 19% of us live in cities with over 1 million inhabitants, there are currently 20 mega cities, this is due to rapid urbanisation over the past 50 years as the LEDCs have been developing. | reasons for the urbanisation process: agricultural revolution-fewer people needed to work the land, industrial revolution- brought people into towns-explosion in consumer goods-better means of transport-growth of economy, Knowledge revolution-crop yield increased-enough food available for people in cities-food prices fell-healthier population meant a decline in deaths so city population continue to thrive. |
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