1. Urban Settlements

2. Key Questions What is an urban place?
Where are the major urban places?
What is urbanization?
How does urbanization take place?

3. An Urban Place is An Urban Place is . . . .

4. An Urban Place is . . . . Ask Students:
What are the major characteristic features of an urban place from the photos?
Can these features be found in Hong Kong?
What are the differences between urban places and rural areas?

5. Where are the major urban places?

6. World Distribution of Main Urban Centres

7. Spatial Distribution of World Cities
along the coast / route focus
mainly in the N. Hemisphere
mainly between 100N and 600N
Teachers can ask students:
Why do the major world cities locate at there, but not other places?

8. Urbanization
Urbanization is defined as the process by an increasing proportion of a country’s population lives in urban areas.

9. How does Urbanization take place?

10. (1) Natural Growth of Urban Population
Rural

11. (2) Rural-Urban Migration

12. People leave their old home rural area because of....
Push Factors
People leave their old home rural area because of....

13. No spare land to get a farm!
No jobs available!
Poor and inadequate facilities!
Boring life!

14. People are attracted to cities because of....
Pull Factors
People are attracted to cities because of....

15. Easy to get a job!
Better living conditions!
Better facilities!
More entertainment !

16. Prepared by Humanities Unit Curriculum Development Institute Education Department