Urbanisation - The process where people move from rural to urban areas, common in LEDC's., Counterurbanisation - The process where people move from urban to rural areas- common in MEDC's, Push factors - The negative factors which cause people to move from an area., Pull factors - The positive factors that cause people to be attracted to an area. , urban sprawl - when an urban area grows into the rural area and causes greenfield sites to be destroyed., Urban decay - some areas within an urban settlement become abandoned and become brownfield sites, rural depopulation - another term for urbanisation, mega city - a city with more than 10 million population, primate city - largest city in its country, province, state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy., infrastructure - the internal fabric of the city which serves the basic needs of its population- sewage, drainage, water, electricity, roads, communications,

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