Urban Geography – lesson plans
Wednesday, May 12
During the lesson we looked briefly at an overview of the topic.
• World Cities
• Mega Cities
• Sydney a Global City
• Urban Dynamics In Sydney and a Country town or Suburb (Pyrmont)
We then examined the following:
• What is urbanisation?
• Changes to the Urban pattern through time
• What are Cities, World Cities, and Mega Cities?
• The Nature, Characteristics and Spatial Distribution of World Cities
• What are the push and pull factors that gave rise to urbanisation?
Friday, 14 May
During the lesson, we looked at World Cities. We developed an understanding of the
Nature, Characteristics and Spatial Distribution of World Cities:
• What is a world city? Or How may be describe it’s nature
• What are the characteristics of World Cities
• Describe the pattern of World Cities
• Why have world cities developed
• Discuss the effects of the following globalisation, marginalisation, dominance
and dependence
• Describe the difference between global cities and mega cities.
• Examine the results of Urban Growth on very large cities
• Examine the impact of urbanisation and social changes
World Cities
Questions and Points for Urban Geography 14 May, 2010-05-14
From Last Lesson (Text pages 110 to 112)
1. What are urban places?
2. What is the difference between urban and rural?
3. Describe the growth of cities from 1800 to 1950 and 1950 to the present.
(Text Pages 113 to 115)
4. explain the nature, Characteristics, and Spatial distribution of World Cities
a. Nature of the World City or How do we describe a World City?
b. What are the characterisitics of a world city?
(homework-research a world city and describe the nature and characteristics of that
city see point 13)
c. Spatial pattern of World cities
List 10 Global Cities
List 10 Global Cities in the Developing world, they may be mega cities as well
List 10 Mega cities that are not global cities (usually in the developed world)
5. Write a definition of the following and give an example (see page 112)
Agglomeration, globalisation, marginalisation, megacity, urban system of network,
Urbanisation, world city
Home Study Look at the Extended response questions on page 111. Keep in mind
these are potential essay topics in examinations and possible short answer topics. At
the end of our study of World Cities prepare outlines for this potential essays
6. (From 12 May and page 112) What are the push and pull factors that lead to urban
growth. Give and example of each.
7. Why have world cities developed? (Overhead and page 114-115)
8. The effects of globalisation are not evenly dispersed across the globe. Examine the
following: (page 113)
Developed World vs the Developing World
Marginalisation and the rise of Mega cities
The role of dominence and dependence
9. Examine the results of urban growth in large Cities. (Page 115)
Process -------- Social & Spatial ---- Land use Change and expansion
response
Urbanisation
Urban Dynamics
Results
Consider the difference between the developed and developing world
10. Examine the role of Urbanisation in Cultural Change. ( Overhead and notes)
Page 115 Lookk at the list of TNC’s
What goods and/or services do they provide? Where are the head offices ?
In what other ways have Cutlural changes taken place?
11. List the Reasons for the Rise of Global Cities. (overhead and page 117)
12. Describe the spatial pattern of Global cities in the following areas. (page 117)
Asian Sub System
North American Subsystem
Western European Subsystem
Southern Hemisphere
13. Look at the definition of world cities in your text (p 117)
In your own words describe a world city and give examples of the characteristics
of that world city. (you might look at Sydney or London in the text)
14. Describe the development of World Cities (brief history) Overhead