Urban  - Relating to a place where more people live in close proximity, Rural - Countryside, Hamlet - A very small group of houses, a small settlement, Village - A small group of houses and buildings, smaller than a town, Town - A moderately large built-up area with defined boundaries and local governance; smaller than a city, Megacity - A city with a population over 10 million, Urbanisation - Increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas, Slums - A dense informal settlement in urban areas without legal land claims, Sanitation - Access to clean drinking water and adequate sewage disposal, Agrarian Revolution - Time period when inventions improved food production (1770s Britain), Industrial Revolution - Time period when inventions increased production of goods, Population Size - The number of individuals in a geographical area, Population Density - Concentration of individuals living in an area (people per sq km), Distribution - The arrangement of phenomena across the Earth’s surface, Spatial distribution - Why certain geographic phenomena are distributed in a particular way, Spatial relationships - The way in which something is spread over an area, Choropleth map - Map using shading/colouring to show data differences in areas, Conurbation - An extended urban area with towns merging with suburbs, Urban Sprawl - Unrestricted growth of urban areas over large expanses of land, Natural increase - Difference between births and deaths (positive = growth), Developed Countries - Industrialised countries with high GDP and technology, Developing Countries - Countries with low living standards and less industry, Metropolis - The capital or chief city of a country or region, Agglomeration - A mass or collection of things (clustering of industries/people), Push Factors - Events that force people to move away, Pull Factors - Events that attract people to move to a place,

Urbanisation Concepts

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