Chapter 6 - Sustaining urban environments

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Across
  1. 2. / a cause of the decline of cities and their urban environment (2)
  2. 4. / when two or more cities /towns spread and merge with each other
  3. 6. / a social problem due to the growth of urban environments
  4. 8. / the most populous city in India
  5. 12. / Earth's surface and soils
  6. 13. / urban zone that's considered to be undergoing the most rapid change (3)
  7. 14. / one of the problems that may occur due to the rapid growth in city populations
Down
  1. 1. / division of larger house sites into multiple ones for new homes (2)
  2. 3. / one of the many problems in fast-growing cities in developing countries
  3. 5. / all features /elements of the natural /physical and the human /urban environment (2)
  4. 6. / spreading of urban developments into areas past the city's boundaries (2)
  5. 7. / transformation of land into dessert due to processes such as climate change, deforestation and overgrazing
  6. 9. / cities with more than 10 million ihabitants
  7. 10. / a major problem of urban sprawl is to provide _____ to new areas
  8. 11. / the redevelopment of old urban areas (2)