demographic transition
The growth pattern that many human populations go through as countries develop, undergo industrialization and urbanization, and improve their standard of living. Birth and death rates converge and ...
internal migration
The temporary or permanent relocation of its population inside a nation-state. China has the most internal migration; in 2003, the so-called floating population reached 140 million, most of them ...
mobility transition
Change through time in the relative sizes of the rural‐to‐urban and urban‐to‐urban migration flows during the course of urbanization within a country. Contrast demographic transition.
more developed country
(MDC)A highly industrialized country that has high per capita incomes, low birth rates and death rates, low population growth rates, and high levels of industrialization and urbanization. Examples ...
park
Enclosed outdoor place of recreation, originally used for hunting. From C18 parks were created as landscape gardens for aesthetic and recreational pleasure. From C19 public parks were created, and ...
slum
An area of poor housing, characterized by multi-occupance and overcrowding; see McFarlane (2008) Env. & Plan. A 40, 1 on sanitation in Mumbai's informal settlements. Rao (2006) Int. J. Urb. & Reg. ...
urban morphology
The form, function, and layout of the city. Geographic attributes—including shape, density, and pattern of land use categories—all reflect the outcome of the urbanization process (Longley and Mesev ...
urban theory
Theorizations of urbanization which stress the logic of capital in uneven urban development, appraise the tensions between modernity and postmodernity as conceptual frameworks for understanding ‘the ...
