2
Management
TOPIC
of
urbanisation in LEDCs
1
Introduction
Responses to housing
CONTENT
problems – self help,
site
and
service
Why
is
the
schemes,
upgrading
management of urban
etc?
areas an increasing
Global range
and global problem?
Mumbai, India
Mexico City
Problems of housing in
cities in LEDCs
Mexico City
What are the
KEY
QUESTIONS
issues?
What are the
What are the
solutions?
issues?
Why is it an
increasingly
global problem?
How does it
affect you?
Jalalpa Video
RESOURCES/APPROACHES
How does this compare with Cambridge?
What are the most important management
1. Provide series of global photographs to list
issues? Identify and rank
management issues
Committee report to the UN –Habitat programme
How inter-related are these issues? Mind
“Slum Upgrading Facility”
mapping exercise on A3 – provide framework
http://www.unhabitat.org/suf/
and a list of issues to add to create a mind map.
Annotate to explain links, add examples.
Key highlight economic, social, cultural and
environmental problems.
Why is it a global problem?
Global Report on Human Settlements To What
extent do you agree with Kofi Annan? How does
it affect you?
Geography Review Article January 2004 p28-31
Causes and
consequences of
Urbanisation and urban
growth in LEDCs
2. How to write an essay, bibliography, research
(broad essay plan)
3. Causes and consequences of urbanisation in
LEDCs
Key definitions
Causes – classify under social, environmental,
cultural, economic, political
Web Site Simulation of the stages of Shanty town
growth
What would you predict are the stages
Model – write a summary paragraph
Guguletu, Cape Town Case study
Advantages and disadvantages of shanty towns
sorting exercise then
Do you agree that squatter settlements are a blot
on the urban landscape?
LIKELY
UN
Habitat
HOMEWORK
report
Plan essay
Read article
Find at least 2 sources
for essay
Essay: To what extent
are
the
problems
created
by
rapid,
recent urban growth in
LEDCs e.g. Mexico City
similar to those created
by rapid C19th growth
in MEDCs e.g. UK.
(Aim to revise AS
work)
3
Causes
and
consequences of urban
growth in MEDCs
Changing demographic
and social structure in
MEDCs
and
the
demand for housing.
Cambridge
How and why has
Cambridge
Grown?
Current issues? Use of articles/websites? Mini
Research task to draw together main information
from 3 sources and compare
London is now the fastest growing city in Europe
but can it cope? Independent 2002
One side or 1000
words summary of
issues with
Bibliography
Synoptic links
highlighted
Guardian Web Article on demand
BUT Downside is housing market failure
Areas of major change. Use Local Plan on base
map of Cambridge, shade in locations of new
developments and make brief notes on size,
main features time scale and main problems
Geo Fact Sheets 96, 66, 149
Geofile 414, 421, 498
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5
Management of urban
growth in MEDCs
Management of urban
growth in MEDCs 2
Planning
to
contain
urban sprawl, exurban
growth and invasion of
the
countryside
–
Green
belts,
green
wedges, new towns,
overspill towns etc
Brownfield
development
Cambridge
Northstowe
Revitalisation of central
areas and inner cities
to
encourage
reurbanisation
Cambridge
Cardiff
What are the
schemes? How
successful are
the schemes?
Brownfield Walk mapping exercise
Students to take pictures to create wall display
Urban extensions – discussion based on planning
documents (mapping exercise)
Urban Extensions – Milton mapping exercise
comparing 1947 and 1999
Can it work?
In Our Back Yard - Peter Dawe and Alan Martin.
Copy to each student.
Northstowe – a vision for the future?
CD Rom, Leaflets, website
Is Cardiff Bay Redevelopment a Success?
Video
Web Quest
What criteria would you use to assess the
effectiveness of strategies?
Annotated
Brownfield
Site walk –
How
do
new
and
planned developments
impact environmental
systems?
To
what
extent
are
they
considered
to
be
sustainable
development?
Essay: Examine the
causes of urban sprawl
in an MEDC of your
choice and assess the
effectiveness
of
strategies to contain it.
6
Socio-economic
problems in MEDCs
7
Management of socioeconomic
problems
MEDCs
8
Social and economic
inequality – poverty, ill
health, unemployment,
access to services and
social
exclusion
in
urban areas. Multiple
deprivation in inner
cities and peripheral
estates.
Burnley
Government sponsored
and private initiatives
to
socio-economic
problems
Burnley, Cardiff,
Newcastle
Living map exercise
Photo interpretation of issues
Mind map exercise
House price comparison exercise with Camridge
Mapping deprivation areas
How has Burnley changed over the last 100 years
Why has socio –
economic problems
arisen?
Map and interpretation
What are the
schemes?
To what extent
are they effective
and why?
Burnley Video following Riots
Past initiatives how successful?
Assessment of initiatives
Inner cities and peripheral estates?
Essay
on
Exclusion
Management of socioeconomic problems in
LEDCs (MEDCs cont 1
lesson)
What are the
causes?
Is globalisation
the key?
Key terms?
Why is globalisation at the route of social
exclusion in LEDCs?
Mini case study Nike??
Nike case study
9
Counterurbanisation
and Traffic Congestion
Management of
Congestion
Web Quest
We quest conclusion
10
Pollution
–
causes,
consequences
and
management
Sustainable Cities
What is the
cause and how
can it be
sustainably
managed?
What are the
causes and the
solutions?
Graphical pollution data from streets in
Cambridge to plot daily variations. – living graph
exercise
Curitibo
Northstowe Representative talk
Groups of 3 complete a research task
summarising course. Students to produce
detailed essay plan and 5 minute talk for revision
period
(Introduction, paragraph plans, case studies,
conclusion)
Brainstorm then divide up research tasks.
Essay plans to be collected and used for class
revision.
Revision essay
housing in LEDCs
11
Social
on
Sustainable
Cities
research definition task
– max 1000 words
Research task
Talk
Essay plan
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14
Sustainable Cities
Investigative
Skills
Paper Issues
Investigative
Skills
Paper Issues
Urban Revision
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