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Index: 1. Urban Populations 2. Urban Land Use 3. Urban Stress 4. The Sustainable City |
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Urban Populations
Learn the key terms found in the slideshare.
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Describe the pattern of global urbanisation [3]
Urbanisation of the world (%)
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Examine the following images. What patterns and trend can you see? Create a spider diagram of all relevant information you can discover from the images.
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Read the following articles about global mega cities and answer the following the questions:
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This BBC series on the megacity may be interesting for further viewing. Along with Andrew Marr's commentary, it gives some interesting views into what life and city planning looks like in some of the world's megacities.
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Urban Land Use
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Examine the 5 images below and discuss the link between location and family life cycle.Make a list of the expectations that you would have in each stage and how this would impact where you live.
The New York Times has published a series of maps below based on census data which shows the density of different populations in various American cities. Choose two to five cities and describe patterns that you see then analyse possible reasons for the patterns that you see. How might these maps, or the data used to create the maps, be helpful for urban planners?
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The Economist has written about whether to build new housing developments in London's Metropolitan Green Belt or not. What do you think? What would be the benefits? What are the arguments against? If you were a person who paid a lot of money to buy a house near the Green Belt, assuming that building on the Green Belt in the future would remain off limits, how would you feel if the rules changed?
Read about it here. And here is the graph about the changing housing prices in and around London. |
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Case Study: Detroit
Read the following article on Detroit. As manufacturing in Detroit went elsewhere, urban deprivation increased and eventually Detroit became a bankrupt city. Using the resources below, discuss possible strategies for Detroit to work towards being a successful urban area once again.
Read the following article on Detroit. As manufacturing in Detroit went elsewhere, urban deprivation increased and eventually Detroit became a bankrupt city. Using the resources below, discuss possible strategies for Detroit to work towards being a successful urban area once again.
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Explain what the informal economy is and how it affects urban environments. Use the YouTube below.
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Exam style question: In a city you have studied, evaluate the urban stress. (10)
Plan and write the above essay You may want to consider some or all of the following aspects of urban stress: congestion, overcrowding, noise levels, green space availability, waste overburden, quality of housing, social deprivation, physical disorder, crime and inequality. |
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The Sustainable City
Key Terms
City Inputs: Water, energy, food, products, materials and people due to migration.
City processes: manufacturing, banking, construction, water management, health care, education, transportation
City Outputs: Air pollution, Noise Pollution, Water pollution, Lack of green areas (recreation), Higher education, Waste material (rubbish), Traffic, People due to migration.
City processes: manufacturing, banking, construction, water management, health care, education, transportation
City Outputs: Air pollution, Noise Pollution, Water pollution, Lack of green areas (recreation), Higher education, Waste material (rubbish), Traffic, People due to migration.
Task:
- View the videos below and consider different strategies towards creating a sustainable city.
- Compare and contrast aspects of sustainable cities in NICs and MEDCs. (6)
- Exam style question: "Creating a sustainable city is unachievable." Discuss this statement. (10)
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Sushi, part of the UNEP, has developed sustainable strategies for cities. Investigate how their strategies were implimented and evaluate their progress. You can link to their website and a downloadable PDF (10)
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Possible IA investigation
Investigate two shopping areas in an urban area of your choice. One in the city centre and one on the rural-urban fringe.
- 11.2.1: Areas of economic activity
- Explain the spatial pattern of economic activity, the zoning of urban and suburban functions and the internal structure of the central business district (CBD).
- 11.2.1: Areas of economic activity
- Students will evaluate:
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- Sphere of influence
- order of goods...convenience vs. specialty goods
- consumer mode of transport
- Via Mapping:
- shop function
- shop density
- shopping centre footprint in square meters or hectares.
- parking availability
- Via Data collection
- customer footfall
- Price Comparison of at least five goods
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- What else could be evaluated? Do the two shopping area meet expected outcomes of land use and zoning patterns for urban environments?
- Can you think ways to collect qualitative data in addition to the quantitative data sets above?
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