Urbanization & Cities
📋 What it is
Urbanization is the growth of cities as people move from countryside to town for work and services.
🗣️ Coach says
Cities are magnets — they pull people with jobs, schools and hospitals packed close together. That brings opportunity but also crowding, traffic and housing pressure. A city is a trade-off you can read on a map.
🧠 Memory hook
Cities pull people (jobs + services) — great, but watch crowding and cost.
😂 Giggle
Why did the tectonic plate break up with the other tectonic plate?
Because the relationship was on shaky ground and they kept drifting apart!
😲 Whoa!
Tokyo’s wider metro area holds around 37 million people — more than the population of many whole countries.
✅ Quick check: Give one benefit AND one challenge of a city growing quickly.
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Benefit: jobs, schools, hospitals and services close together; challenge: crowding, traffic, pollution or housing shortages.
Weighing benefits against challenges is how geographers judge urban growth.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
List 3 things a city offers that a small village usually can’t.