Suburbanisation - Tuesday 18th December

The suburbs are the outlying areas of a city which remain close enough to the city centre to be accessible by commuters. The suburbs are predominantly residential in nature, but in Britain the suburbs have carefully developed a sense of rurality.

Suburbanisation is the increased movement of people / services and industries from the centres of inner urban areas outwards, towards and onto the edges of the built-up area.

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Homework
Complete the questions from class based on the Geo Factsheet titled: Suburbanisation.
Due - first lesson after Christmas holidays.

Urbanisation in MEDCs - Tuesday 11th December

Aim for today's lesson:
Know the causes, patterns and characteristics of urbanisation in MEDCs, particularly the UK.

Learning Activity
Go to this website and work through the interactive guide. As you go through, make sure you watch all of the videos about different aspects of urbanisation in the UK - it will help if you have your own headphones!

Make some brief notes from each page using the page titles as a series of sub-headings:

~ The Industrial Revolution
~ Housing conditions
~ The 1960s
~ Building quality
~ The Inner City

Homework
1. Read the article 'Life in Kibera' which describe the effects of rapid urbanisation in LEDCs (another case study for you).
2. Have a go at the exam question about shanty settlements (you can mark this yourself using the markscheme provided).
3. Read the article '19th Century Nottingham' which describes the urbanisation of Nottingham. Produce a timeline of the key events - try to restrict yourself to one side of A4.

Tuesday 4th December - Urbanisation in LEDCs

The aims of today's lesson were:

~ to understand the causes of rapid urbanisation in LEDCs (focusing on rural-urban migration, including push and pull factors, and high rates of natural population increase);

~ be able to describe the consequences of rapid urbanisation in one LEDC (focus on Tondo district of Manila in the Philippines - use Windows Live Local to find this location)

Today's powerpoint presentation:

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You can also download the audio clip from today's lesson as well as explore some of the problems of shanty settlements further at the BBC's website.

Homework
Complete any of these 3 tasks you didn't finish during today's lesson:
1. Read Page 193 and describe how shanty settlements change over time;
2. Make notes on the 'Problems of Urbanisation' under the headings economic, social and environmental (P196)
3. Make notes on the 'Benefits of Urbanisation' - P198

Plus complete this exam question:
Using an example, outline the problems caused by rapid population growth in an LEDC. [7]