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How urban growth rates vary in parts of the world with contrasting levels of development.
Outline characteristics of world cities and megacities and their changing distribution since 1950.
Understand the causes of rapid urbanisation in LIDCs, including the push and pull factors of rural-urban migration and internal growth.
Investigate the consequences of rapid urban growth in LIDCs.
Understand the causes and consequences of contrasting urban trends in ACs, including suburbanisation, counter-urbanisation and re-urbanisation.
EDC city case study: Mumbai, India
The city’s location and importance within its region, the country, and the wider world.
Patterns of national and international migration and how this is changing the growth and character of the city.
Explore the ways of life in the city, such as culture, ethnicity, housing, leisure and consumption.
Investigate the contemporary challenges that affect life in the EDC city, such as squatter settlements, informal sector jobs, health or waste disposal.
AC city case study: London, UK
The city’s location and importance within its region, the country, and the wider world.
Patterns of national and international migration and how this is changing the growth and character of the city.
Explore the ways of life in the city, such as culture, ethnicity, housing, leisure and consumption.
Investigate the contemporary challenges that affect life in the AC city, such as housing availability, transport provision, access to services and inequality.
For each city investigate one initiative to make it more sustainable, such as use of brownfield sites, waste recycling and transport improvements.
EDC city - Mumbai: Vision Mumbai (brownfield site development)
AC city - London: Congestion Charge (transport improvements)