Topic 7: The Challenges of an Urban World How have cities grown and what challenges do they face? The world is increasingly Examine urbanisation trends globally To learn a definition for urbanisation. urbanised as cities grow and across different regions, including To understand why urbanisation is due to different processes. reasons for growth (migration and occurring – through migration (push-pull internal growth). factors) and natural increase in cities. To understand that urbanisation is now occurring more rapidly in developing countries. Contrast the economic activities, spatial To learn a definition for megacity. growth and population of ‘megacities’ To understand the economic activity (cities with more than 10 million people) (jobs/businesses) undertaken in in the developed and developing world. megacities. To understand how megacities have grown, how the structure/layout is different in developing and developed countries. To understand the population structures and how people live in megacities. Examine urban challenges in the Examine urban challenges in the To learn the key problems in cities in developed world, including food, energy, developed world, including food, energy, the developed world. transport and waste disposal demands transport and waste disposal demands that may lead to concentrated resource that may lead to concentrated resource consumption. consumption. Examine urban challenges in the To learn the key problems in cities in developing world, including slum the developing world. housing, the informal economy and urban pollution, that lead to low quality of life. Cities in the developed Investigate why eco-footprints vary from To learn a definition for ‘eco-footprint’ world have huge potential city to city and assess how one named To know how ‘eco-footprints’ are for reducing their city in the developed world is lessening measured. environmental impact its eco-footprint by reducing energy To know why eco-footprints can be (eco-footprint). consumption and waste generation. different. Know how one city e.g. York, has tried to reduce its eco-footprint. To be able to explain how it has reduced the amount
Topic 7: The Challenges of an Urban World How have cities grown and what challenges do they face? The world is increasingly urbanised as cities grow due to different processes. Examine urbanisation trends globally and across different regions, including reasons for growth (migration and internal growth). To learn a definition for urbanisation. To understand why urbanisation is occurring – through migration (push-pull factors) and natural increase in cities. To understand that urbanisation is now occurring more rapidly in developing countries. Contrast the economic activities, spatial growth and population of ‘megacities’ (cities with more than 10 million people) in the developed and developing world. To learn a definition for megacity. To understand the economic activity (jobs/businesses) undertaken in megacities. To understand how megacities have grown, how the structure/layout is different in developing and developed countries. To understand the population structures and how people live in megacities. Examine urban challenges in the developed world, including food, energy, transport and waste disposal demands that may lead to concentrated resource consumption. Examine urban challenges in the developed world, including food, energy, transport and waste disposal demands that may lead to concentrated resource consumption. To learn the key problems in cities in the developed world. Examine urban challenges in the developing world, including slum housing, the informal economy and urban pollution, that lead to low quality of life. To learn the key problems in cities in the developing world. Cities in the developed world have huge potential for reducing their environmental impact (eco-footprint). Investigate why eco-footprints vary from city to city and assess how one named city in the developed world is lessening its eco-footprint by reducing energy consumption and waste generation. To learn a definition for ‘eco-footprint’ To know how ‘eco-footprints’ are measured. To know why eco-footprints can be different. Know how one city e.g. York, has tried to reduce its eco-footprint. To be able to explain how it has reduced the amount
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