1. Urban Trends & Issues of urbanisation
SETTLEMENT DYNAMICS
Urban Trends & Issues of urbanisation

2. Key questions
What are the processes of urbanisation in LIC’s, MIC’s & HIC’s?
What are the causes and consequences of these processes in LICs, MICs and HICs?
What are world cities? What has caused their growth?
Is their a hierarchy of cities?
Highlight to the pupils the key terms and topic outline on the HC1.1Naturalincrease Handout

3. Look at the following images – what do you see?
Task:
Look at the following images – what do you see?
How might this help us to define what we mean by the term ‘urban’?

14. So….. What does URBAN mean?
Write a definition on your worksheet

15. a key distinction
Urbanisation The concentration of population into urban areas Urban growth Growth in population numbers and/or physical expansion of the urban area)

18. TASK
Plot the following data as a scattergraph with size in millions on the x axis and number of cities in the category on the Y axis.
2 cities with over 30 million people (Tokyo and Jakarta)
10 cities with between 20 – 30 million people
21 cities with between 10 – 20 million people
41 cities with between 5 – 10 million people
31 cities with between 4 – 5 million people
38 cities with between 3 – 4 million people
81 cities with between 2 – 3 million people
360 cities with between 1 – 2 million people
380 cities with between 0.5 – 1 million people

19. Introduction to Urbanisation
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25. Urban hierarchy This is the traditional view of urban hierarchy.
There are others as we will see….

26. Rank size rule

30. The Urbanisation Pathway

31. Task: Describe the world distribution of levels of urbanisation shown in Figure 6.14

32. Is the world still urbanising?
Why is growth slowing down in some countries?

33. The Uk

34. Past paper questions
(a) (i) Give the meaning of the term urbanisation. [3] (ii) Outline two reasons why the rate of urbanisation is decreasing in many countries. [4] Paper 12 June 2015

35. PPQ Page /11 Question 6
Figs 5A and 5B show the population in urban areas in 1975 and 1995, and predicted for Fig. 5A shows percentage urban population and Fig. 5B shows total urban population (millions).
A. (i) What percentage of the population in LEDCs lived in urban areas in 1975? [1]
(ii) Use the data in Figs 5A and 5B to describe the differences between the numbers living in urban areas in MEDCs
and LEDCs. [3]
B Name the processes that lead to an increase in the numbers of people living in urban areas in LEDCs. [2] (c) Suggest why there is a small percentage increase in urban population in MEDCs. [4]

37. Some more terminology Mega Cities
Metropolitan areas with excess of 10 million people. Population density over 2000 people/km squared. Could be a single area or a conurbation

38. Processes of Urbanisation
Agglomeration
Suburbanisation
Counterurbanisation
Reurbanisation
Suburban intensification

41. suburbanisation The process of urban sprawl and suburbanisation
Edge cities – Los Angeles and Edge City in an MEDC
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42. How we built Britain – Episode 6
How some of Metroland is being preserved

43. TASK Read page 179 – 180 of your CORE text Answer:
Questions 16. List the factors that have led to suburbanisation
Question 17. List the features of the suburbs and rural urban fringe

44. Counterurbanisation - RECAP

47. Definitions
Reurbanisation – the movement of people back to live in old city centres which have been redeveloped
Suburban intensification – improvement and development of the suburbs via the introduction of new services and increased building densities. It is when there is an influx of larger shops and shopping centres and also houses with large gardens are replaced with flats, leading to a higher population density and an intensification of the suburbs.

48. Task Read your handout on reurbanisation.
To what extent is reurbanisation a good or bad thing for cities? (8)

49. TASK
Watch the following TED talk which gives us greater insight to this theme.
TAKE SOME NOTES!!!!!
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50. And Some more terminology……
World Cities
A major centre of finance, trade, business, politics, culture, science, information gathering, mass media with a GLOBAl sphere of influence. NYC, London and Tokyo main examples. 100 cities account for 30% of the world economy

52. Include the four key characteristics and examples in your work
task
Using pages 154 – 155 of the Digby & Ross A2 text book write a detailed definition of what we mean by WORLD CITIES.
Include the four key characteristics and examples in your work
Using Page 182 of your CORE text note down what has caused the growth of world cities

54. Ranking cities
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55. ‘Supertall’ buildings
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56. Past paper essay question Page 3
(a) (i) Give the meaning of the term world city. [3] (ii) Outline two causes of the growth of world cities. [4]

57. Page 13 – 2014 paper 11 Question 6
Fig. 6 is a diagram of the development of Seoul urban region, South Korea, between 1970 and South Korea is an NIC in East Asia.
Using Figs 6A and 6B, identify two changes to Seoul between 1970 and [2]
Describe Seoul urban region as shown in Fig. 6C. [3]
The population of Seoul decreased from 10.4 million in 2000 to 9.8 million in Suggest reasons why the total population of some cities is decreasing. [5]

59. PPQ ESSAYS Page 3 2015/13 Question 12
(a)(i) Give the meaning of the term world city. [3]
(ii) Outline two causes of the growth of world cities. [4]
(b) Describe the advantages and disadvantages for a country of urban growth. [8]
(c) ‘Urbanisation is very difficult to reduce in an LEDC.’ How far do you agree? [10]