Agglomeration
Globalisation
Marginalisation
Mega-city
Urban growth
Urban system
Urbanisation
World city
A city that has global and national significance
A network of interrelated urban places
The process of exclusion
The process of global economic and cultural integration
A very large urban agglomeration of at least 8 million inhabitants
A central city with neighbouring communities linked to it by continuous builtup areas
The net increase in the population of an urban centre
An increase in the proportion of a country’s population living in urban areas.
Generally involves movement from rural to urban areas