PPT-Urbanisation The Growth of Towns and Cities

Economic urban areas are market centres for the buying and selling of Goods and Services Administrative urban areas are the places from which the surrounding area is governed eg Carrickmacross. Greg Clark . Sao Paulo, September 2014. © The Business of Cities Ltd. The Global Urban Age. Much talk of:. The Urban Age. The management of urbanisation.. The global economy.. The global environment.. “the case for a NATIONAL URBAN POLICY for . zambia. ”. Presentation to the IGC Cities Research Conference: 21. st. -22. nd. May, 2015. Held at the London School of Economics. Meembo. . Nchimunya. Background and purpose of the day. Steve Fothergill. Alliance National Director. . “Cities drive economic growth”. . . “Cities drive economic growth”. . Lord Andrew Adonis. . Author of Labour’s review of local economic growth. IB Grade 12 optional theme. Main case-studies. Shanghai. London. Dhaka. Define Urbanisation. Urbanisation. or . urbanization. is the growth of urban areas population as a result of rural migration and even suburban concentration into cities, particularly the very largest ones.. Counter Urbanisation. Name and explain problems faced by developing world cities. Explain the term: counter-urbanisation. Sustainability. Other issues facing cities. A. I. M. S. Terms to know. Learning Objectives:. To be able to…. Define the term urbanisation. Explain the causes of urbanisation in LEDCs. Develop casestudy details of urbanisation and how it links to migration. What is urbanisation?. A global trend. Global . Urbanisation. . 1950 - 2050. Source: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: The 2009 Revision, . Mobility, . Urbanisation. and Informal Housing. Michael Collyer. Global population growth will be concentrated in poor cities. Megacities account for smaller but fastest growing proportion of total urban population. Mobility, . Urbanisation. and Informal Housing. Michael Collyer. Global population growth will be concentrated in poor cities. Megacities account for smaller but fastest growing proportion of total urban population. Frontier Urbanization: European Colonization to Independence. Mercantile Period (1790-1840) Local Markets and Central Place. Early Industrial Expansion and Realignment (1840-1875). Industrialization (1875-1920) Uneven and Unstable. Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE). Geoff Frost. 1. Three important settlement shifts . Loss of inland towns . Rise of regional centres . Coastal growth - increasing focus of amenity. Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE). Geoff Frost. 1. Three important settlement shifts . Loss of inland towns . Rise of regional centres . Coastal growth - increasing focus of amenity. Learning objective . – to . investigate the different ways slavery transformed key British towns.. I can . describe. . some of the ways that slavery transformed Britain.. Level 3/4. I can. . e. xplain . Block 1. Vocabulary pgs. 232-235. Carruca. Serf. Patrician. Manor. Bourgeoisie. Medieval. Technology. Crucial. Carruca. . A heavy, wheeled plow with an iron plowshare.. Serf. Peasants legally bound to the land..