Welcome to IGCSE Geography Not that good an

Welcome to IGCSE Geography Not that good an impression, but close-ish – kinda! I am Lindy 1

IGCSE geography is a good course • But in order to do well you will need to do much more than the hour a week we are given in class. • To help you with this I have started 2 wikis specially for you guys • One is the textbook substitute • The other is similar to my key stage 3 wikis that some of you have come across, with PPs, class notes , homework and other useful links 2

The wiki is called • The textbook one is • http: //ih-igcsegeography. wikispaces. com/ • The Lesson notes one is • http: //newigcsenotes. wikispaces. com/ • I still operate the blog where I put news items that might be of interest and/or help you with your lessons called ‘Coach House geography’ and is found at • http: //lindym. wordpress. com/ 3

Every week • I will email you ( and store on the site) a worksheet for class time. • You will use it to scribble on so print it off before class – I never need see it, but you will find it useful when it comes to homework/revision to have some notes made. Start a file for these to be kept in. • If you really cannot get it printed off for whatever reason, I suggest you keep it open on your desktop during class and type into it. 4

Section B — People and their environments Unit B 6 Urban environments 5

Urban environments • Key ideas 1: A growing percentage of the world’s population lives in urban areas. • Key idea 2: The urban environment is characterised by the segregation of different land uses and of people of different economic status and ethnic background. • Key idea 3: Changes occur as urban environments age and the needs of people change. 6

Key idea 1: A growing percentage of the world’s population lives in urban areas. • The nature of urbanisation (including suburbanisation and counterurbanisation); • The problems associated with rapid urbanisation including congestion, transport, employment, crime and environmental quality. • Mapping of the changing global distribution of megacities. • Environmental quality survey (fieldwork for holiday). 7

A growing percentage of the world’s population lives in urban areas. • http: //ih-igcsegeography. wikispaces. com/6. 1. Urbanisation • http: //ih-igcsegeography. wikispaces. com/6. 2. +Urbanisatio n+and+mega-cities • http: //ih-igcsegeography. wikispaces. com/6. 3. +Rapid+urban isation 8

Key idea 2: The urban environment is characterised by the segregation of different land uses and of people of different economic status and ethnic background. • Factors encouraging similar land uses to concentrate in particular parts of the urban area (eg locational needs, accessibility, land values). • Reasons for, and consequences of, the segregation of different socioeconomic and ethnic groups. • Shanty towns (squatter communities): location, growth, problems and mitigating strategies (including self-help). • Land use transects plotting (fieldwork for holiday) • A case study of one city to show the land use patterns and the distribution of social/ethnic groups. • A case study of shanty town management in a LIC city. 9

The urban environment is characterised by the segregation of different land uses and of people of different economic status and ethnic background. • http: //ih-igcsegeography. wikispaces. com/6. 4+Urban+land+use+functions+ • http: //ih-igcsegeography. wikispaces. com/6. 5+Reasons+for+and+conseque nces+of+segregation++between+groups • http: //ih-igcsegeography. wikispaces. com/6. 6+All+about+Shanty+towns • http: //ih-igcsegeography. wikispaces. com/6. 10. +Measure+environmental+q uality+%26 land+use%3 F 10

Key idea 3: Changes occur as urban environments age and the needs of people change. • The nature of, and reasons for, the changes taking place at the edge of HIC cities (eg retail complexes, business parks and industrial estates). The ‘greenfield’ versus ‘brownfield’ debate. • Not an asked for case study, but you would be as well to use local knowledge of a greenfield development and its issues (see later) • Areas of social deprivation and poverty in HIC cities: symptoms and locations. The changing fortunes of innercity areas. • The roles of managers (planners, politicians, property developers and industrialists) in urban regeneration and re-imaging. • Annotated sketches of urban change based on the analysis of photographs and maps. • A case study of one named urban area in an HIC to 11 explain how and why changes are taking place.