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Urbanization and Settlement Patterns — Homework
Answer in complete sentences. For the settlement-pattern items, explain WHY that pattern fits, not just which one it is.
- 1.Define urbanization and state roughly what share of the world's population now lives in urban areas.
- 2.A village's houses are built in a single-file row along both sides of a highway. Name this settlement pattern and explain why the road shapes it this way.
- 3.Explain two reasons a megacity in a developing country might struggle to house all of its new residents in formal, planned neighborhoods.
- 4.Name one push factor and one pull factor that would explain rural-to-urban migration into a growing city.
- 5.A megacity is defined as an urban area with a population above what number?
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