A2 World Cities Scheme of Work 2009-2010
The Human
Options
World cities
Key revision topics
Definitions, key ideas and Case studies. Geog3 exam 13th June PM
Geog4a 19th June am
Revision links
Types of cities
Definitions: World City, Megacity, Millionaire City and Urbanisation
P.131 textbook
Examples of world cities – resource/learning/centres of spatial proximity.
P.132
The global pattern of urbanisation - Economic development and change related to urbanisation. Understand
changes in the location and number of megacities. – Link to cycle of urbanisation: Industrialisation,
suburbanisation, Counterurbanisation.
P.131/132 textbook
Redfern P131 – 134
Global distribution
Time line of world urbanisation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/world/06/urbanisation/html/urbanisation.stm
What is urbanisation?
Urbanisation:
characteristics,
causes and effects.
P.133 Redfern
Textbook P.135
Summarise the causes of urbanisation – see page 133-134. Include the following terms in your summary:
Mechanisation of farming, Industrial Revolution, Industrialisation.
Contemporary ubranisation processes – causes of urban growth
Globalisation and Informationalisation! – P131
Textbook P.136
CASE STUDY:1. Causes, effects of urbanisation in an LEDC:
Mumbia, IndiaSolutions: – Dhavri
2. Urban regeneration in the developing world – case study:
Calcutta India. Read about the Brown Agenda
Suburbanisation:
characteristics,
causes and effects.
To define the process of
suburbanisation.
To understand the causes and
consequences of suburbanisation.
Definition of suburbanisation.
Causes and effects of suburbanisation – Green field and Brownfield sites
Redfern P.138/139
Textbook P.143/144
Redfern P.140
Describe the processes of suburbanisation in LEDCs.- CASE STUDY: Sao Paulo, Barra
Describe the process of suburbanisation in MEDCs, - Causes, effects, changes in Landuse/function, transport
links using census data/stats – CASE STUDY: Skipton! Or Los Angeles
Counter-urbanisation:
characteristics,
causes and effects.
Define the term counterurbanisation.
What does counterurbanisation involve? (see page 141 - Redf)
What are the characteristics of a suburbanised village? (see page 143 Redf).
A2 Text – Redf p141-143
CASE STUDY – The effects of Counterurbanisation: St Ives, Cambridgeshire
Redfern P.144 and 145
Urban Change in contemporary Britain: CASE STUDY: Eco-towns in the UK
Re-urbanisation:
characteristics,
causes and effects.
To define and understand the term
Re-urbanisation
To understand the causes and
consequences of Re-urbanisation.
Definition of Re-urbanisation
Describe and explain 3 main processes:
1.Genetrification: What are the socio-economic issues relating to gentrification?
CASE STUDY: Notting Hill, London
A2 Text Redf – p 146-148
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2.Property Led Regeneration Schemes
3. Sustainable Communities
http://www.ipglobal-ltd.com/investor-centre/investment-newsletter/regeneration-and-gentrification-inlondon.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14704419
Urban decline and Regeneration – deprivation, measuring inequalities, causes of inner city decline.
Initiatives to encourage re-urbanisation P.146 – Learn: UDCs, etc
Redfern P.148-152
Textbook P.147
Textbook P.149
Redfern P.154
CASE STUDY – Property led Regeneration: Holbeck
Sustainable communities: Thames Gateway (include – link to London 2012)
Also link to London Docklands and London 2012 Docklands Powerpoint
How will London 2012 act as a catalyst to regenerate East London? http://www.london2012.com/
http://www.london2012.com/sustainability
http://www.london2012.com/legacy-after-the-games
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/2012/newsid_8327000/8327942.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adrianwarner/2009/10/is_there_a_flaw_in_the_2012_le.html
Re-urbanisation in an
LEDC
Understand that urban regeneration
is taking pace in LEDW
Urban Regeneration in the developing world – p 137-139 of Redf
(the brown agenda)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8260206.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9566838.stm
Retailing and other
services
The decentralisation
of retailing and other
services – causes
and impacts.
The redevelopment
of city centres –
impacts and
responses, including
one case study of an
urban centre that has
undergone
redevelopment.
One case study of an
out-of-town centre
retailing area.
Know and understand how retailing
has changed over the last 30 years.
Know some of the effects of these
changes on the traditional city
centre
Know what has been done to
redevelop city
Understand some of the effects of
the redevelopment
Know facts and features of an area
of out of town retailing.
Know advantages and
disadvantages of the development
of out of town retailing
Read Redfern P.159 – 163 – Factors explaining changes in shopping habits, location and out of town
shopping centres.
Use various mini-examples
Boundary Mill – Box Mall
What are the features of the CBD?
Define and explain: PVLI : Zones of assimilation :Zones of discard : core and frame. What are some of the
problems of the CBD?
‘The Dead Heart Syndrome’
Redfern P.164 – 167
The fightback - Strategies to regenerate declining city centres
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cbfsf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/05/urban-development-tesco-towns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/26/tesco-town-london-ipswich
http://www.tescotown.co.uk/index.php
http://joeblakey.com/geography/assess-the-impact-of-out-of-town-shopping-centre-retailing-areas-on-theregions-in-which-they-occur/
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Tesco-To-Offer-Homes-As-Well-As-Shops-But-Not-AllResidents-Are-Happy/Article/201005415638199
CASE STUDY: Merry Hill, West Midlands – Out of town retailing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Hill_Shopping_Centre
http://uk.westfield.com/merryhill/
Textbook P.157 - 161
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The effects of out of town retail developments on the rural urban fringe
Case Studies – Touchwood, Solihull
Contemporary
sustainability
issues in urban
areas
Waste management:
recycling and its
alternatives.
Transport and its
management: the
development of
integrated, efficient
and sustainable
systems.
Understand the different types of
waste
Assess the role of recycling
Know various examples of waste
management.
Understand why and how
sustainable management of waste
is more successful in LEDCs
Understand the various transport
problems facing the UK – in
particular cities.
Evaluate the various solutions
attempted to solve transport
problems – UK and elsewhere.
UK and Local area(s).
Waste Management Issues – page 163 – 165
CASE STUDY: Nairobi, Craven, Woking, Peterborough
Transport Issues – National and local
Solutions – National and local
CASE STUDY – Manchester, London, Cambridge