Learning Outcomes

• Understand the global characteristics of urbanisation (% of people living in urban areas; million cities)

• Be able to describe how urbanisation has changed over time

• Know definitions of key terms• Begin to examine some of the problems

associated with a highly urbanised population

The Earth at NightWhat does this tell us?

Key terms

• Urbanisation: an increasing proportion of a country’s population living in urban areas.

– MEDCs during and following the Industrial Revolution (driven by economic development)

– LEDCs since 1950 as a result of migration from rural areas and high rates of population growth in urban areas

More Key Terms

• Mega city - a city with a population of more than ten million inhabitants

• Millionaire city - a city with more than a million inhabitants

A global urban explosion

Use the tables on P191

• One colour dot for the twenty largest cities in 1960

• Another colour for the megacities in 2000• TITLE AND KEY!!

Manila

Tokyo

Table to show change over time

Year Europe Asia S America N America Australasia Africa

1960 3

2000

Describe the main features of their world distributioncontinents - coastal - inland

north-south divide - MEDCs - LEDCs