2 Urbanization and the Growth of Cities Free Online FlashCards

What is urbanization?

Urbanization is an increase in the share of a population living in urban settlements.

What is urban growth?

Urban growth is an increase in the number of people living in a particular city or urban region.

How can a city grow without a country becoming more urban?

A city can grow without a country becoming more urban if the city and national populations rise at the same rate.

What is natural increase in a city?

Natural increase occurs when births exceed deaths among city residents.

How do pull factors differ from push factors in migration?

Pull factors attract people to a destination, while push factors are pressures that encourage people to leave their place of origin.

What kinds of places can suburbs contain?

Suburbs are areas around a central city and may contain homes, workplaces, shopping areas, schools, and industry.

What is suburbanization?

Suburbanization is the growth of population and development in areas around a central city.

Why can city-proper population understate urban-region expansion?

A central city’s population can grow slowly or decline while the wider urban region expands, so city-proper population alone gives an incomplete picture.

What is urban sprawl?

Urban sprawl is development that is relatively low-density, dispersed, fragmented, or distant from existing built-up areas.

What defines a metropolitan region?

A metropolitan region includes a city and surrounding communities linked by daily activities such as commuting, shopping, and accessing services.

What does it mean for an urban region to be polycentric?

A polycentric urban region has multiple centers of employment and activity rather than one dominant downtown.

How can migration change a city’s population?

Migration changes a city’s population when people move into or out of it, either within a country or across national borders.