Lesson Objectives

IGCSE Geography

• Explain the following key ideas:

• Urbanisation

• Rural - Urban Migration

• Rural depopulation

• Counter urbanisation

• Megacity​

The increase in the percentage of a population living in urban areas.

This can be good and bad at the same time

Urbanisation

Anchorage, Alaska (United States)

​Mumbai, India

• Drought

• Natural disasters

• lack of services

​​Physical

• lack of jobs

• The need to make a living

Economical

• Desire for a better education

• healthcare

• Safety

Social

Factors causing Urbanisation

​Push and Pull factors to Rural Migration

Pros and cons to urbanisation

• Negative effects:

  • Young adults leave rural areas

  • "Brain drain"

  • Not enough people to keep the services running

• Positive effects:

  • Less pressure on resources in rural areas

  • Remittances​

More than 2/3 of the worlds urban population is now in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and the carribean.

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