what is a city? answers……. are some cities more crowded than others?
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Urbanization
SS 11
What is a city?
• Answers…….
• Are some cities more crowded than others?
• Population Density
Comparisons – by country
By City
Q
• Do you think that more people live in the city or in the country side?
• Think/Pair/Share
Our Class Statistics
World Statistics
• 1800’s – 5% lived in the city
• 2000 – 47% lived in the city
• By 2030 the UN expects that 65% will live in cities
Vocabulary
• Rural – Characteristic of farming or country life
• Urban – Characteristic of city life
Q
• Why do you think people move from Rural to Urban settings?
• Think/Pair/Share
Vocabulary
• Urbanization - becoming urbanized, or becoming more urban.
Urbanization
• Urbanization has been characterized as the movement of people away from a rural life towards an urban life.
Q
• Turn to page 208
• When did the trend for Urbanization in Western Europe begin?
Q
• See page 208, 209
• What factors helped with the growth of Urbanization?
Push Pull Factors
• Push
• Pull
Vocabulary
• Sanitation – the removal of garbage and sewage
• Infrastructure – the basic structures or features of a city such as roads, buildings, water, sewer, electricity
• Influx – the process of flowing in
Environmental Impact #1
• The infrastructure of cities was not ready for the influx of people.
• One of the biggest problems was dirtiness and sanitation
• The increase of garbage and sewage problems was the first major environmental impact
• Problems with sanitation and health were improved.
• Building practices were improved so they could house more people downtown
• Now cities could handle the people
Q
• Look at page 209
• What are the two biggest reasons for people to move to the cities?
Vocabulary
• Employment –being employed or having a job
• Amenities – the things that make you comfortable and are convenient, things that make a place desirable to live.
• Increase in people……increase on resources
Q
• What are the basic things that people use?
• The more we use, the more we……..
Environmental Impact #2
• The larger that cities grew, the more they polluted.
• Personal pollution like household garbage and vehicle pollution.
• Industrial pollution from factories, solids, liquids and gases.
• Noise pollution as well as light pollution at night.
Growth
• The better they got, the bigger they got
Q
• Where are successful cities cited (built)?
• Think/Pair/Share
Vocabulary
• Arable Land – land that is suitable for farming
• Intensive – a high level of input
• Nutrients – substances that are necessary to help plants and animals grow
• Sustainable – the ability to keep going
Environmental Impact #3
• As cities grow they grow over the arable land that once supported so many people.
• If cities continue to grow outwards, they will take up all of the arable land that people once needed.
Environmental Impact #3
• Now they have to grow food on land that is not as rich in nutrients which means that you need more land to grow the same amount of food.
• We see this as a direct relationship.
Environmental Impact #3
• Current agricultural allow people to use more intensive farming practices using more chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and water to try and grow more food on poor land.
• Intensive farming is unsustainable.
Should we stay or Should we go?
• You and a partner list the positive reasons for being in a city, and the negative reasons for being in a city
T-Chart