What is an Urban Area?
A BUILT-UP AREA SUCH AS A TOWN OR CITY
What is Urbanisation?
Urbanisation = a process where an increasing
proportion of the population lives in towns and cities
(and there is a reduction living in rural areas).
What is a mega city?
Name the mega-cities below
Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto, Japan
Dublin, Ireland
Toronto, Canada
New York, United States
Manila, Philippines
Austin, Texas
Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay)
Frankfurt, Germany
Jakarta, Indonesia
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mexico City, Mexico
Lagos, Nigeria
A city with a population of 10 million people or more.
Imagine you live in a rural community in the
Philippines…. What would you want to do? What
are your options in life at your age now?
Why have megacities emerged?
1. Economic Development:
Possibility of better opportunities in the city for health, jobs and education.
2. Population Growth:
Increase in birth rate/decrease in death rate + better quality of life = people live longer
3. ‘Economies of Scale:’
Businesses can save money by locating close to eachother. (Low transport costs!)
4. Multiplier effect:
Prosperity may attract more prosperity.
How has the average line of latitude for the
worlds largest cities changed since 1950?
The latitude of the largest cities has moved south.
The most rapidly growing cities are now in developing countries
Why are most rapidly
growing cities (and megacities) now in developing
countries?
Why has the line of latitude moved south?
OR: why are most rapidly growing cities now in LICS/MICS?
Rapid industrialization has already happened in the HICS:
most people already live in cities! Their growth has slowed
UK
Lagos,
Nigeria
Shenzhen: ‘The Instant City’
Letter writing:
Using your textbook pages 150-151
And this presentation (on the website)
Homework:
Imagine you are the daughter or son of rural farmers in a LIC country
(think: Africa, Asia, Middle East or South America).
Write to your cousin who lives in a city and tell them your reasons
for wanting to leave the countryside and live in the city.
Tell them what your life may be like at home and why you think life
would be better in the city. What are your future plans?
Include the name of the city you plan to move to and 2 pieces of
information specific to that city.
At minimum: 10 sentences. See rubric online IGCSE homepage