urban migration
Moving to cities
Urban migration is the movement of people from rural areas to cities, typically in search of employment, education, or improved living conditions.
The phrase usually refers to large-scale demographic shifts rather than individual relocations: Urban migration has transformed the country's population distribution over the past century.
The reverse movement is called rural migration or, more commonly, urban flight.
- bright lightsIntense urban illumination
- gentrificationWealthy influx displacing locals
- inner cityDense central metropolitan zone
- economic opportunityChance for financial advancement
- concrete jungleDense cityscape, few parks
urbanization · industrialization · population density · zoning · remittances · shantytown · housing shortages · employment · squatter · brain drain · push-pull factors · megacities · demographic shifts · city planning · social mobility · fresh start · newcomers · jobs
- turkeyIstanbul, Ankara, turkey breast, turkey leg, Anatolia
- urban developmentsprawl, city planning, zoning, annexation, city growth
- rural declinedepopulation, rural exodus, brain drain, outmigration, dying towns
- urban demographicspopulation density, population boom, city growth, headcount, metro area
- urbanizationcity, metropolis, suburbanization, downtown core, sprawl
- Great MigrationChicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland
urban migrationurban exodus
Migration away from cities
white flight · urban flight · reverse migration · outmigration · rural retreat
urban migrationsuburbanization
Growth of outlying residential areas
decentralization · rural settlement · ruralization · urban sprawl · exurbanization