This lesson contains 14 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
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2.2 World: The spread of metropolises
Slide 1 - Slide
Planning
- Herhaling §2.1
- Leerdoelen
- Uitleg §2.2
- Scrollverhaal Lagos
Slide 2 - Slide
What are the 4 characterisics of a city?
Slide 3 - Open question
Worldcity
Megacity
Capital
bestuurscentrum van land
10 miljoen inwoners
geen grote rol in wereld
belangrijk op wereldniveau
Slide 4 - Drag question
vraag
Which difference do you see between the location of cities in rich and in poor countries?
Answer
In rich countries the cities are spread out over the country. In poor countries they are quite often at the coast
Urban network
– A group of cities linked in many ways within a country
Slide 5 - Slide
How are cities soread out?
In the poorest countries you can often find a primate city.
This is a city that is much larger than the number two city of that country.
Example: Bangkok in Thailand
(8 million inhabitants) is 16 times bigger than the number two city in Thailand. (270.000 inhabitants).
Slide 6 - Slide
Slide 7 - Slide
How can you explain the distribution of cities?
Absolute location:
flat fertile areas
Crossroads of former trade routes
location of raw materials
Slide 8 - Slide
How can you explain the distribution of cities?
Characteristics of the location of a place relative to other places. e.g:
middle of the country, or the coast
good connections with other cities
Brussels 'spider in the web'
Slide 9 - Slide
How can you explain the distribution of cities?
the past
During colonial times they formed the link of the colony to its western motherland
Why? Export to motherland
LAter the population of former colonies migrated to the cities looking form work.
Slide 10 - Slide
www.google.com
Slide 11 - Link
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Slide 12 - Link
How does the urban pattern change?
You can see how much of the population of a country lives in cities by looking at the degree of urbanisation.
The annual growth of the degree of urbanisation is calles the urbanisation pace. --> in developing countries this is higher.
Since 1970 millions of people have been migrating from the rural areas to the city (urbanisation), especially in Asia and Africa
These are mostly young people who are looking for a better future in the city. Besides the large settlement surplus, natural population growth is therefore the main reason why the urban population in less economically developed countries is growing so fast.