Question

Summarize the relationships among urbanization, metropolitan area, and suburb. Within your discussion, define each of these terms.

Answer 1

Answer:

Urbanization: this is the process by which the population or urban areas increases, usually because people move out to the cities form rural areas.

Metropolitan area: an admnistrative divison consisting in a city, and its sorrounding areas.

Suburb: the area sorrounding a city that has a lower population density than the urban core, but a higher population density than a rural area.

The relationship between these three variables is very close. Urbanization is what drives the growth of both urban cores and suburbs, and a metropolitan area emerges when a city and its suburbs grow enough that they require a new special administrative division in order to coordinate local policies.