25032021 1MHT 1 & 2

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 1

Welcome back to Geography

GEO in the news

Would you take the 3 hour walk from the nearest village to this volcano to see it?

Yes!

No thanks!

Today

Repeat about suburbanization & the urban model

You will learn about land use changes in a city or town

You will learn who can benefit from the regeneration of a part of a city

Last Week

Urban model

Push & pull factors in the city

Urban model

A: 

B: 

C:

D: 

A

B

C

D

Urban model

A: Central Business District (or CBD)

B: Inner city

C: Inner suburbs

D: Outer suburbs

A

B

C

D

Zone A: The CBD

Zone B: The inner city

Zone C: The inner suburbs

Zone D: The outer suburbs

Write down a pull factor of the city (a good thing which pulls people to the city)

Last Week

Urban model

Push & pull factors in the city

Suburbanization

Suburbanization

Towns outside the city grow a lot

People are leaving the city due to push-factors

Give an example of a push factor of the city

1950

2000

Farmer

Bird watcher

Restaurant owner

Teenager

I had to sell my land for houses to be build

All the nature close to the city is disappearing, I have to travel far to enjoy some nature

People tend to go to the city to go out for dinner. Here, they only come for drinks

School is closeby, and in the weekends you can easily go to the big city to go shopping!

Move to the suburbs!

• Move away from the problems in the city (crime, pollution)
• Cost of living was too high in the city
• Cars, roads, public transport improved rapidly
• Quality of life was considered better outside the crowded city 

In the city

Empty houses and abandoned factories

Students, artists, migrants start living here (cheap to live)

New coffee shops, clothing shops, bars 

Investments

New (expensive) houses

Poor people have to leave due to the prices

Rich, often young, people will start living in the area

Regeneration

Your turn

Read page 58 & 59 in your book

Go to It's learning and find the exercise "London Dockyards"

Finish the exercise and hand it in on It's Learning

20 minutes

Ready? Act 1 & 2 on page 59!

The London Dockyards were once the part of the busiest port in the world (in 1950)

1. True
2. False

The reason the Docklands industry declined was because ships became too large to sail over the river the Thames

1. True
2. False

The houses in the Dockyards were of good quality and people living there had a high quality of life

1. True
2. False

Write down any positive results of the regeneration of the London Dockyards

Which group of people are benefitting from the regeneration of the neighborhood?

Rich families

Shopkeepers

Young married couples looking for their first home

Elderly people

Do you think the regeneration of the London Dockyards (or a different neighborhood) is good or bad for the neighborhood?

Good

Bad

Today & before

You learned about settlements: shapes, functions, land use

You learned about the different zones in a city and surroundings (urban model)

You  learned about how land use changes through time in a city

You learned who can benefit from the regeneration of a part of a city

Next week(s)

A closer look at the city center

  Shopping: 

         High and low order goods

         City centers and malls

  Traffic in the city - how can this problem be solved?