Settlements Landuse models Landuse models are simplified maps showing different land uses within a city.
Urbanisation is the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
Urban growth in MEDCs MEDCs have high levels of urbanisation. This is because they have industrialised. The movement of people from rural to urban areas followed the industrial revolution when there was a great demand for people to work in the factories that developed. It took place throughout the 19th and Early 20th Centuries in Europe and North America. By 1950 most of the people in these two continents lived in urban areas.