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What Is Urbanization?
Define urbanization as the demographic and spatial process by which an increasing percentage of a population lives in cities and towns.
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How Cities Grow: Urbanization and Rural Change
4th Grade · Social-studies · US-WI-SS
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Understand what drives urbanization, how industrial and agricultural changes spurred city growth, and the impacts of migration on rural communities.
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- 2The Growth of Cities: From Settlements to MetropolisesPremiumUp next
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