Title: Urbanization, Centripetal and Centrifugal Movements
1Urbanization, Centripetal and Centrifugal
Movements
2PART 1 URBANIZATION
3What is a City Bell Ringer
- The article talks about the idea that cities have
both positive and negative characteristics. - In your notebook, make a list of the following
- The positive aspects of Chicago
- The negative aspects of Chicago
4Bell Ringer Make a list of 5 valid claims
relating to patterns of urbanization you can see
in the map
5The Process of Urbanization
- Urbanization the process by which an increasing
percentage of a countrys population comes to
live in towns and cities. It may involve both
rural-urban migration and natural increase.
6Causes of urbanization
- Rural to urban migration
- Natural Increase
7Rural urban migration
- Rural to urban migration result of push and
pull factors
8Push and pull factors
Push factors Pull factors
Difficult/harsh climate eg. droughts Chance of a better life
Struggle to provide food for family Better housing and amenities
Very low income Chance of good jobs higher wages, more varied employment
High rates of population growth have put pressure on natural resources such as water/energy/land Better medical/health care
Cant afford to fertilizers to increase yields Children able to go to school
Mechanization of farming favors rich farmer and leads to unemployment or underemployment of poor farmer.
9Natural increase
- The people that migrate into towns and cities
tend to be young resulting in high levels of
natural increase - high of young adults high levels of births
- Falling death rates due to improved medical care
means more babies are born than people dying,
further increasing the urban population
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11 urban population
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13World Urban Population
14Elbow Partner Discussions
- Using the last two data slides, discuss this
question - Why are there higher rates of urbanization in
developing nations compared to developed nations?
15Urbanization and Wealth Data Analysis Activity
16Graphing Global Urbanization Activity
- Step 1 Take 5 minutes to read/annotate data set.
Be sure to read definition of agglomerations for
notecards! - Step 2 In elbow partners, answer the following
questions - How many urban agglomerations had a population
greater than 10 million in 1950? Where were these
urban areas? - Describe the changes in the number and location
of urban agglomerations in 1975, 2000, and 2010. - What changes does the UN project for 2025?
17Graphing Global Urbanization Activity
- Step 3 Graph the Data.
- Create a comparative bar graph showing bars for
each of the following continents (N. America, S.
America, Europe, Asia, Africa) and different
colors for each time period in the handout - Y axis will be number of urban areas in each time
period in each continent
18Graphing Global Urbanization Activity
- Step 4 Analyze the data. In one paragraph,
answer the following prompt using data from your
graph as your evidence. - Describe the changing patterns of urbanization
from 1950-2025.
19PART 2 CENTRIPETAL MOVEMENTS
20Centripetal Movements involve the migration of
people into towns and cities
21Urban Processes can be seen as inward and outward
movements
Inward Movement (Centripetal) Rural to urban
migration, gentrification, re-urbanization, urban
renewal
Outward Movement (Centrifugal) Suburbanization,
urban sprawl, counter-urbanization
22Rural Push Factors
- High rates of population growth have put pressure
on natural resource such as water and energy and
reduced the size of land holdings - New farming technology favors the rich farmer,
but for others it leads to unemployment or
underemployment - Migration for work is often the only option
- (See complete list of rural push factors in
yesterdays notes)
23Urban Pull Factors
- Higher wages
- More varied employment
- Educational opportunities
- (See complete list in earlier notes)
24The Consequences of Urbanization
- Economic Growth
- Urban economies are almost always more productive
than rural ones - Industrial productivity is higher in cities.
- Cities are usually responsible for a greater
percentage of total GDP
25The Consequences of Urbanization
- Gentrification
- The Reinvestment of capital into inner-city
areas. - Improvement in residential areas
- It is a type of filtering that may lead to the
social displacement of poor people (as a place
becomes gentrified, housing prices rise and the
poor are unable to afford it often times
minorities)
26The Consequences of Urbanization
- Re-urbanization (urban renewal) the development
of activities to increase residential population
densities within the existing built-up area of a
city. - This may include the redevelopment of vacant land
and the refurbishment of housing and the
development of new businesses.
27The Consequences of Urbanization
- Brownfield Sites abandoned or underused
industrial buildings and land, which may be
contaminated but have potential for redevelopment
28Centrifugal Movements
29Centrifugal Movements
- Also known as Decentralization
- The outward movements of a population from the
center of a city towards its edge or periphery,
resulting in the expansion of a city.
30Suburbanization
- Suburb a residential area just outside the
boundaries of a city. - Suburbanization the outward growth of towns and
cities to engulf surrounding villages and rural
areas. This may result from the out-migration of
population from the inner urban areas to the
suburbs.
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32Urban Sprawl
- The unplanned and uncontrolled physical expansion
of an urban area into the surrounding
countryside. It is closely linked with the
process of suburbanization. - Good examples of Urban Sprawl include Mexico City
- http//www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401975/Am
azing-aerial-photos-Mexico-City-natural-boundaries
-stand-way.html
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34Exurbanization
- Exurbanization refers to the process in the 1990s
when upper class city dwellers moved out of the
city, beyond the suburbs, to live in high-end
housing in the countryside.
35Counter-Urbanization
- A process involving the movement of populations
away from inner urban areas to a new town, new
estate, commuter town or village on the edge or
just beyond the city limits or rural-urban
fringe. - Characteristic of wealthy cities in MEDCs
- It is a response to increasing stress of
overcrowding, congestion, pollution and crime.
36Reasons for counter-urbanization
- Increased car ownership
- Increased wealth
- De-industrialization
- Relocation of industry/employment to rural urban
fringe - Desire for safe, pleasant environment, the rural
ideal/utopia - Perception of urban areas as dangerous, high
levels of crime, racial/ethnic problems white
flight - Change in tenure from public/renting to private
ownership. Sell property and move out.
37The Consequences of Centrifugal Movements
- Centrifugal movements involve a shift of
population and economic activity from the center
of the urban area to its periphery and beyond,
which is detrimental to the center. - Construction of roads and buildings destroy open
space and increases air pollution -
38Response to Consequences
- Urban Planners have focused on ways of reviving
the urban center(urban renewal/gentrification)
and restricting new construction in urban
hinterlands - Hinterlands the zone surrounding a city