What is development in terms of place change?
A process creating growth or positive change in a place's situation.
What does urbanisation describe about a country's population?
An increased proportion living in towns or cities.
What is natural increase in population terms?
It is the difference between birth rate and death rate in a year.
What happens first in the demographic transition process?
Death rates fall before birth rates.
Development Concept
Creates growth and positive change
Urbanisation Definition
More people living in towns or cities
Urban growth rate
How fast urban populations increase over time
Gentrification process
Wealthier move in, displacing poorer residents
Urban consolidation
Higher density via high-rise developments
Natural increase
Births minus deaths annually
Demographic transition
Death rates fall first, then birth rates
1890s world population
Over 1 billion, global increase marked
Answer 11 questions on Changing Places Case Studies.
1. Which description best defines development in relation to a place?
2. What does urbanisation measure when analysing population change?
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