What is development in terms of place change?
A process creating growth or positive change in a place's situation.
Development Concept
Creates growth and positive change
What does urbanisation describe about a country's population?
An increased proportion living in towns or cities.
Urbanisation Definition
More people living in towns or cities
What is natural increase in population terms?
It is the difference between birth rate and death rate in a year.
Urban growth rate
How fast urban populations increase over time
What happens first in the demographic transition process?
Death rates fall before birth rates.
Gentrification process
Wealthier move in, displacing poorer residents
Urban consolidation
Higher density via high-rise developments
Natural increase
Births minus deaths annually
Demographic transition
Death rates fall first, then birth rates
1890s world population
Over 1 billion, global increase marked
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1. Which description best defines development in relation to a place?
2. What is the term for the process that creates growth, progress, or positive change in the physical, economic, environmental, social, and demographic aspects of a place?
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