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Cities IFP final year ppt
The document discusses urbanization, highlighting the reasons people migrate to cities and its impact on their life chances. It contrasts urbanization in developed and developing countries, addressing issues such as suburbanization and gentrification. Additionally, it explores the relationship between urbanization and the informal economy, as well as its varying effects on women across different contexts.
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- 1. IFP Sociology FinalYear Cities Part 1 1. Explain why people migrate to cities and the kind of impact this has on people’s life chances 2. Apply understanding of urbanisation to a local and contemporary example
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- 4. Urbanisation • 1. Dividethe positive and negative features of urban life Positive Negative 5 minutes
- 5. Urbanisation Write down thepush and pull factors that lead to urbanisation 5 minutes
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- 9. Push and PullFactors in Shenzhen • Your task is to read the article and write down some of the problems faced and the opportunities enjoyed by the residents of Shenzhen • The article and photographs from The Guardian are taken from the work of Bandurski 2015
- 10. Urbanisation in China •1. Write down the push and pull factors of urbanisation
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- 12. Cities IFP FinalYear Part 2 . 1) . 2) Discuss the similarities and differences in urbanisation in developed and developing country contexts . 3) Discuss impact of urbanisation from gender perspective
- 14. Urbanisation in theDeveloped World: Surburbanisation • Suburbanisation is the word used to describe the growth in relatively affluent quiet residential areas populated by mostly white middle class families on the outskirts of cities
- 15. Inner-City Decay/Ghettoisation the 1990s innercity areas came to be known as ghettos containing a range of
- 16. Gentrification • The processof ghettoisation is being reversed as social housing projects are being demolished and city centres experience ‘regeneration projects’ • The working classes that once inhabited these areas can no longer afford to live in the areas they once grew up in
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- 19. Urbanisation in the DevelopingWorld • Write down the 3 most interesting things you learned from this video
- 21. Slums and theRise of the Informal Economy
- 22. What is thelink between urbanisation and the informal economy?
- 23. Urbanisation and Gender •Does urbanisation have a positive or negative impact for women? • Is this different for developing/developed countries?