changes in rural places

NICs - newly industrialised countries

urbanisation

• an increase in proportion of a countries population that lives in towns and cities

• the 2 main causes of urbanisation r nautural population increase and migration rural to urban

suburbanisation

• the movement of people from living in the inner parts of a city to living in the outer edges

• it has been facilitated by the development of transport networks and the increase in ownership of privet cars these have allowed people to commute to work

counter urbanisation

• the movement of people from large urban area into smaller urban areas or into rural areas thereby leapfrogging the rural urban fringe. it can mean daily commuting but could also require life style changes and use of ICT

dormatry village

• ppl live there dont work there

• commuting

• kings reach

distance decay

• money isnt going into the village economy bc commuters r spending in the cities

• shops close down

• people dont want to live there