global and regional could include processes associated highlighting issues of economies. discussive/creative. with urbanisation and informal settlements. You The United Nations publishes Contemporary growth. might also collect together a a number of useful annual characteristics or number of newspaper reports on cities, including Explain the mega/world cities. articles highlighting current emergence of issues such as housing (UGRG) of the Royal megacities and shortages, air pollution and Geographical cities, describe their flooding. Get students to Society/Institute of British characteristics and think about their local urban Geographers has a useful discuss their role in areas or cities they are website with links and global and regional familiar with and discuss resources to many urban economies. the issues that face these issues. There are further cities. RGS urban geography resources and lectures on the Give students a of maps and data which Eye, Geography Review illustrate changing urban and GeoFile/GeoActive trends since 1945. Students regularly have urban to describe and explain the geography related articles. data (exam style) and newspaper The Guardian discuss the impacts of also does a regular feature urbanisation in HICs, MICs on cities @guardiancities and LICs. Extension: You can draw Read the excellent article on links with the Changing mega and meta cities by places topic with discussion Mark Rowe (2014) ‘Growing on homogenisation, clone pains’ in Geographical towns and placelessness. (Sept, 2014) magazine. Students can work in There are a lot of good groups to research and resources on informal produce presentations on settlements in cities such as different world cities and Mumbai (Dharavi), Nairobi megacities. Examples might (Kibera) and Rio (Rocinha). include: You could use
global and regional economies. Contemporary characteristics or mega/world cities. could include discussive/creative. processes associated with urbanisation and growth. Explain the emergence of megacities and cities, describe their characteristics and discuss their role in global and regional economies. highlighting issues of informal settlements. You might also collect together a number of newspaper articles highlighting current issues such as housing shortages, air pollution and flooding. Get students to think about their local urban areas or cities they are familiar with and discuss the issues that face these cities. Give students a of maps and data which illustrate changing urban trends since 1945. Students to describe and explain the data (exam style) and discuss the impacts of urbanisation in HICs, MICs and LICs. Extension: You can draw links with the Changing places topic with discussion on homogenisation, clone towns and placelessness. Students can work in groups to research and produce presentations on different world cities and megacities. Examples might include: The United Nations publishes a number of useful annual reports on cities, including (UGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers has a useful website with links and resources to many urban issues. There are further RGS urban geography resources and lectures on the Eye, Geography Review and GeoFile/GeoActive regularly have urban geography related articles. The Guardian newspaper also does a regular feature on cities @guardiancities Read the excellent article on mega and meta cities by Mark Rowe (2014) ‘Growing pains’ in Geographical magazine. (Sept, 2014) There are a lot of good resources on informal settlements in cities such as Mumbai (Dharavi), Nairobi (Kibera) and Rio (Rocinha). You could use
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