Opportunities And Challenges Of Urbanisation
Overview
Cities are humanity's greatest invention and, at the same time, the site of some of its hardest problems. The same city can offer a young person a university, a hospital, a concert and a steady wage, while a few streets away a million people live in a settlement with no legal water supply and no title to the land beneath their homes. Urban living is a story of opportunity and challenge held tightly together.
In this lesson you will weigh both sides. You will learn the real opportunities cities offer, the challenges that rapid growth creates (inequality, housing shortages, weak services, unemployment, traffic and waste, and the rise of unplanned settlements), and how the spreading edge of the city, urban sprawl, changes the countryside on the rural urban fringe.
Objectives
- Opportunities of urban living, for example, culture, housing, services, leisure, consumption, economic development.
- The opportunities and challenges of rapid urban growth: inequality, service provision, housing, employment, transport, waste management, unplanned settlements.
- The impact of urban sprawl on the rural-urban fringe/surrounding areas.
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- Which is an opportunity offered by urban living? A. air pollution B. better access to hospitals and universities C. overcrowded informal settlements D. traffic congestion Answer: B
- An informal (squatter) settlement is best described as: A. a planned new town B. self built housing on land the residents do not own C. a gated community for the rich D. an industrial estate Answer: B
- Many workers in LIC cities are in the informal sector because: A. formal jobs grow faster than the population B. formal jobs grow more slowly than the population C. there is no demand for goods D. the government bans formal work Answer: B
- Urban sprawl is the: A. movement of people back to the countryside B. uncontrolled outward spread of a city into the countryside C. building of skyscrapers in the centre D. demolition of slums Answer: B
- The rural urban fringe is: A. the very centre of a city B. the zone where town meets country at the edge of a city C. a remote rural village D. an area of dense high rise flats Answer: B
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