URBANISATION

1. BY: ANGEL

2. WHAT IS URBANISATION Urbanisationrefers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.

3. HERE IS THE PROCESS Once upon a time, our ancestors lived by hunting, and eating wild fruit and seeds. They will keep on moving to find food. Hunters gatherers, that’s us

4. Then about 12000 years ago, they realized that they no need to eat everything straight away. They could store seeds and plant them.

5. It was the start of farming. They began to grow crops and then to rear animal. The wild sheep was the first animals to be domesticated.

6. Farming meant they could settle in one place. So over time, clusters of dwellings grew. It was the start of settlements.

7. When farmers grew more than they needed, they would swop with each other.

8. Villages grew around markets. Some were in good location, and grew into market towns.

9. But for thousands of years, most of the people continued to live in rural areas, aspeciallyfarmers. They went into town only for fairs.

10. The Industrial Revolutionisbegan in the UK. Machines were invented by people which would change everything.

11. Factories using the machines sprang up, close to towns, because they needed workers

12. Farming was changing. New crops and farming practices meant farms could produce much more food than before with fewer workers.

13. People from the rural areas will look for work in the new factories. The towns exploded in size. Some grew into cities.

14. Industrial spread to other European countries, and the USA. So their towns and cities grew rapidly. New forms of transport helped.

15. From around 1950, the growth of towns and cities slowed down in Europe and the USA but took off on other continents.

16. Today about 54% of humans live in urban areas. By 2050 we think the figure will be 70%. RURAL URBAN

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