PowerPoint for the AQA A GCSE Geography specification Changing urban environments - Urbanisation

1. GCSE GEOGRAPHY
AQA A SPECFICATION
“ Changing Urban Environments “
PowerPoint one – Urbanisation

2. Urbanisation
• Urbanisations is happening faster in poorer
countires
• It is the growth in the population of a countrys
population living in urban areas , its
happening all over the world – more than 50%
of the worlds population currently live in
urban areas ( 3.4 billion people ) and is
increasing every day

3. • Urbanisation differs between richer and
poorer countries
• 1) most of the population in richer countries
already live in urban areas e.g more than 80%
of the UK Population live in urban areas
• 2) not many of the population in poorer
countries currently live in urban areas e.g
around 25% of the population of Bangladesh
live in urban areas

4. • 3) most urbanisation that’s happening in the
world today is going on in poorer countries
and it happening at a fast rate

5. • Urbanisation is happening because of rural-
urban migration
• Rural to urban migration is the movement of
people from the countryside to other cities
• Rural to urban migration causes urbanisation
in richer and poorer countries

6. • Here are some reason of why its happening
• 1) there is often a shortage of services ( e.g
education , access to water and power ) in rural
areas , also people from rural areas sometimes
believe that the standard of living is better in
cities
• 2) there are more jobs in urban areas industry is
attracted to cites because there's a larger
workforce and better infrastructure than in rural
areas

7. • 1) most urbanisation in rich countries move from rural
countris occurred during the industrial and agricultural
revolutions ( 18th ans 19th century – machinery began
to replace farm labour in rural areas and jobs were
created in new factories in urban areas people moved
from farms to town for work
• In the late 20th century people left run down inner city
areas and moved to the country but people are now
being encouraged back by the redevelopment of
theses areas