Geography Paper 2 – Urban
Issues and Challenges Revision
,Describe the global pattern of urban change
- Describe: PAD – pattern, anomaly, data
- Could be given a graph
- More than 50% of the world’s pop lives in urban areas
- LICs have more urban growth than HICs
- Some countries (generally HICs) are experiencing urban population
decline (these would be countries that have past rural-urban
migration and are now facing counter-urbanisation)
, Explain the differences in urban growth betwee
HICs and LICs.
• 1950s: HICs and LICs had the same urban population.
• From the 1980s, the urban population of LICs has increased more
than HICs and is still increasing more today
• Most megacities are situated in both HICs and LICs.
Issues and Challenges Revision
,Describe the global pattern of urban change
- Describe: PAD – pattern, anomaly, data
- Could be given a graph
- More than 50% of the world’s pop lives in urban areas
- LICs have more urban growth than HICs
- Some countries (generally HICs) are experiencing urban population
decline (these would be countries that have past rural-urban
migration and are now facing counter-urbanisation)
, Explain the differences in urban growth betwee
HICs and LICs.
• 1950s: HICs and LICs had the same urban population.
• From the 1980s, the urban population of LICs has increased more
than HICs and is still increasing more today
• Most megacities are situated in both HICs and LICs.
