2HAT/TTO §4.3 The Arab City

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§4.3 The Arab City

Lesson goals:

1. Review §4.3

2. Do exercises §4.3

Homework:

Population of the Arab World

Characteristics:

• High birth rate and declining death rate => high population growth
• Large income differences; middle class is largely lacking
• Urbanization rate is high due to migration from the countryside to the cities.

Population diagram

Egyptian Pyramid

Spatial segregation means that different socio-economic groups

1. have different levels of education
2. have different levels of income
3. live in separate neighbourhoods
4. go to different schools

The streets in the Arab towns are often narrow dead end streets so the

1. people have less privacy
2. enemy might loose its way
3. cars cannot pass through
4. social cohesion is good

What is shown on this picture?

1. A medina
2. A souk
3. A mosque
4. A cashba

Gated communities are an example of

1. ethnic segregation
2. social cohesion
3. social polarisation
4. spatial segregation

Important terms

Spatial segregation

Ethnic segregation

Social cohesion

Social polarisation 

Gated community

Ghetto / getto

Homework:

Finish assignments of §4.3