Topic overview
What you need to know
Urban growth creates opportunities and challenges. Sustainable urban planning aims to improve housing, transport, services and environmental quality without shifting problems elsewhere.
Exam tip
Use place-specific evidence and organise effects into social, economic and environmental categories.
Core knowledge
Key facts for Urban Issues & Challenges
Urbanisation
An increase in the proportion of a country's population living in towns and cities.
Natural increase
Population growth when the birth rate is higher than the death rate.
Rural–urban migration
The movement of people from the countryside to towns and cities.
Megacity
An urban area with a population of more than 10 million people.
Urban regeneration
Long-term investment intended to reverse decline and improve an urban area.
Sustainable urban living
Meeting residents' needs while reducing resource use, pollution and harm to future generations.
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