Under Pressure

L/I: To analyse how pressures are changing cities in different ways

L/I: To analyse how pressures are changing cities in different ways

Pressures London Shanghai

Pressures of transport and communications.

Problem of wealth disparity

The issue of areal extent

Problems for the quality of the environment

Post it notes

• Annotate the ideas on your table

• We will then discuss and look for links in the ideas in 20 mins time

London

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London- Where new houses are built.This map, courtesy of Barney Stringer, of regeneration consultancy Quod, finishes the story. The blue dots are homes built during the 1930s: a thick ring right around London. If you've ever wondered why so much of outer London looks identical, just miles upon miles of endless semi detached homes, then this is why.

Stringer's map only features homes within the bounds of today's Greater London, of course. But the shape of the city today is very similar to the shape of the city then. The speed of London's physical expansion after World War One had scared the hell out of just about everyone, and led directly to the imposition of the Metropolitan Green belt. After nearly two and a half century of physical growth, in the mid-20th century, London stopped.Now, of course, the city is expanding once again – in population, if not in scale. The question now is whether we have room for it.

London- Wealth Disparity

Shanghai- 26 years of change

Shanghai 1992-2009

Shanghai- Wealth

Shanghai- Roads and Congestion

Plenary- Exam Q Structure

• How would you structure the exam question below?

Describe ways in which transport and communications are changing in cities. To what extent are the changes sustainable? [25]