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Urban environments

Urban environments. Lesson objectives: To be able to describe the characteristics of an urban area To be able to explain processes of urbanisation. Key terms urban Rural Urbanisation Suburbanisation Counterurbanisation Densely populated HIC LIC. What is URBAN?.

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Urban environments

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  1. Urban environments Lesson objectives: To be able to describe the characteristics of an urban area To be able to explain processes of urbanisation Key termsurban Rural Urbanisation Suburbanisation Counterurbanisation Densely populated HIC LIC

  2. What is URBAN? • Find 3 definitions for urban • What resources could you use for this?

  3. Growing urban populations • For the first time ever, the majority of the world's population lives in a city. • One hundred years ago, 2 out of every 10 people lived in an urban area. • By 1990, less than 40% of the global population lived in a city, but as of 2010, more than half of all people live in an urban area. http://www.who.int/

  4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/urbanisation/html/urbanisation.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/urbanisation/html/urbanisation.stm

  5. Definition • Urban • Urbanisation

  6. What is urbanisation? • Urbanisation is the increase in the proportion of people who live in urban environments. Over time more and more people have moved into the larger communities, thus making them bigger still. What do you notice about urban growth in the time shown?

  7. What are the characteristics?

  8. What are the characteristics?

  9. Back to back task • With a partner sit with your back to each other • One person must have a pen and paper and be facing away from the board • The other must be facing the board and must describe what they can see

  10. Draw this into your books and describe the trends (changes over time) that you can see.

  11. Why has urbanisation taken place? • Rural – urban migration (define this) • Natural change – birth rates / death rates

  12. Write the definitions and suggest some for rural/urban migration • Push factors Factors that repel people from an area • Pull factors Factors that attract people to an area

  13. Counter urbanisation – why?

  14. HICs – outward movement Suburbanisation • Definition • Diagram • Explanation / example

  15. Counter urbanisation • Definition • Diagram • Explanation / example

  16. Explain the reasons why urbanisation has taken place

  17. Suburbanisation • Counterurbanisation • Agglomeration

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