Chapter 2 - Urbanisation

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Urbanisation and urbanisation rate

Learning objectives

• You know which four characteristics a city has.
• You understand the difference between a megacity and a metropolis.
• You can describe how life in a megacity differs from that in a metropolis.
• You can describe the process of urbanisation.
• You can put on a timeline the different periods of urbanisation and link the correct keywords to the timeline.

What is a city?

What is a city?

1. A certain number of inhabitants
2. Densely built
3. Working population in the secondary or tertiary sector
4. Large number of facilities

Megacity

Metropolis

The number of megacities and cities with more than one million inhabitants will increase in the coming years.

Megacity

" City with more than ten million inhabitants."

• Most are in the periphery or semi-periphery.
• They do not play a major role in world politics.

Metropolis

"Large, often western city which plays a significant role in part of the world with regards to economy, politics and culture."

• They form important nodes in the global urban network.
• The major changes on the world stage come from here.

To make it more complex..

Megacity = City with more than ten million inhabitants.

Metropolis = Large, often western city which plays a significant role in part of the world with regards to economy, politics and culture. E.g.: London, New York and Tokyo.

Capital city = Most important city in a country usually housing the government.

Primate city = A city that, based on the number of inhabitants and its
functions, is much larger and more important than the second city in the country.

reasons to move away from a village	reasons to move to a city
reasons to move away from the city	reasons to move to a village

Push factor

Pull factor

urbanisation

sub-

urbanisation

Urban areas

suburbanisation = urbanisation

1. true
2. false

Degree of urbanisation

Urbanisation

Urbanisation rate

Percentage of population living in the city

The annual growth, in percentage, in degree of urabnisation

Movement from rural areas to urban areas

Urbanisation

Suburbanisation

People move to the city

People move to villages

There are not so many jobs in the primary sector anymore

People started to buy cars. 

During the urbanisation period, people mainly worked in which sector?

1. Primary
2. Secundary
3. Tertiary

In which countries is the degree of urbanisation the highest?

1. LEDC
2. HEDC

Which is the correct order from earliest to most recent?

1. reurbanisation - urbanisation - suburbanisation
2. urbanisation - reurbanisation - suburbanisation
3. suburbanisation- urbanisation - reurbanisation
4. urbanisation - suburbanisation- reurbanisation

What process happened after 1990?

1. Urbanisation
2. Suburbanisation
3. Re-urbanisation

Because of urbanisation, amenities in the rural areas closed. Which ones closed?

1. Nursing homes (verzorgingshuizen) and supermarkets
2. Schools and supermarkets
3. Nursing homes (verzorgingshuizen) and schools
4. All of these

Which answer describes the correct process? 

Drag the star to the correct answer.

1. People started to work in factories 

2. Urbanisation

3. More traffic jams to cities

1. People could buy cars

2. Urbanisation

3. More pollution in the cities

1. People started to work in factories

2. Suburbanisation

3. More pollution in cities

1. People could buy cars

2. Suburbanisation

3. More traffic jams to cities

This city is large but has little international significance

1. (C)apital city
2. (M)egacity
3. (MP) Metropolis

Can a city be both a megacity and a metropolis?

1. Yes
2. No

Which statement is correct?

1. Every megacity is a capital
2. Every megacity is a primate city
3. Every metropolis is a megacity
4. No statement is correct

Which term belongs to Paris?

1. Only Capital
2. Only capital, megacity and metropolis
3. Only capital and metropolis
4. Capital, megacity, metropolis and port city.

A

B

C

Urbanisation

Suburbanisation

Re-urbanisation

Learning objectives

• You know which four characteristics a city has.
• You understand the difference between a megacity and a metropolis.
• You can describe how life in a megacity differs from that in a metropolis.
• You can describe the process of urbanisation.
• You can put on a timeline the different periods of urbanisation and link the correct keywords to the timeline.