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