London

WHAT MAKES LONDON A GLOBAL CITY ?

Key questions

How to define the concept of global city by the case of LONDON ?

What are the activities that make LONDON a major world impulse center?

How is the city of LONDON developed, how does it energize an entire region ?

What are the limits, the challenges for LONDON, a global city?

Final task

To answer the key questions above, you will have to make a video report about LONDON as a global city showing its strengths & features and challenges & limits.

Instructions

1. Your page must present examples about each feature of a global city (previous page about Global cities)

2. You have to use a specific geographic vocabulary (global, globalization, on a global scale, on a regional scale, area, CBD, urban network, skyscraper, skyline, headquarters, Transnational Corporation TNC, hub, commuting, congestion, pollution, brain drain, highly-skilled workers, migrants, urban planning, gentrification, inner city, outer city, suburbs, transportation network, tourism industry)

3.Choose relevants pictures, max 5/6 and comment on them.

4. Dead line November 2sd / group work of 4 students

Useful resources

1. Websites which can be used

• London case study geography website (highly recommended for your work, full of maps, datas...) www.latitudegeography.org/london-case-study.html
  • London, the capital city of the world www.numptynerd.net/london-the-capital-city-of-the-world.html
  • Study of a major UK city www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/z3h7sg8/revision/1
  • World city influence of London (You have to sign in to get the full text) www.getrevising.co.uk/revision-notes/case-study-world-city-influence-london#similar

2. London, a world city ?

3. London airports map