Summary

Goals

  • Understanding what urbanization is and how it has progressed globally.
  • Being able to distinguish the basic structure of urban areas.
  • Knowing what net emigration and net immigration regions are.

Summary

  • Urbanization is a process where populations concentrate in urban areas.
  • Urbanization and the movement of people into cities from the countryside has resulted in the formation of net emigration regions. These regions are most common in the eastern and northern parts of Finland.
  • The populations of net immigration regions grow. In Finland, net immigration regions are primarily found near the large cities in the southern regions of the nation.
  • Different functions, such as housing, industry and services, have concentrated in different parts of cities.