This document provides materials for a lesson on urbanization. It includes entry tasks about how Dubai's population has changed over time and what causes population increases and decreases. The objectives are for students to describe urbanization and analyze its benefits and challenges. An assessment question asks students to discuss how urbanization has positively and negatively impacted Dubai. The document defines urbanization and provides facts about it in Asia, including statistics on population growth, poverty, education, and pollution. Students are assigned to read about urbanization and answer questions, and the homework involves researching Dubai's population over time.

1. Entry Task:
1.) How do you think the population of Dubai
has changed over time?
2.) What causes a cities population to
increase?
3.) What causes a cities population to
decrease?

2. Objectives:
The students will be able to describe the concept of
urbanization.
The students will be able to analyze the benefits
and challenges of urbanization.

3. Assessment Question #3:
Does development mean progress? What
are the impacts of urbanization in Dubai?
How has urbanization impacted Dubai in a
positive way? How has urbanization
impacted Dubai in a negative way?

4. Interactive Notebook:
Date =
Title = Urbanization
Page # =

5. What is urbanization?

6. Urbanization refers to the increasing number of people
that live in urban areas. It predominantly results in the
physical growth of urban areas, be it horizontal or
vertical.
When a city’s population grows quickly, it is called
urbanization.
The United Nations projected that half of the world's
population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.
INVESTIGATION: Was this prediction accurate?

7. 12 Facts about Urbanization in Asia:
 In 1950, only 30% of the world population was urban. In 2000, 47% of the
world population was urban. More than half of the world’s population will
be living in urban areas by 2008.
 Almost 180,000 people are added to the urban population each day. Most
are rural migrants.
 It is estimated that there are almost a billion poor people in the world.
Over 750 million live in urban areas without adequate shelter and basic
services.
 By 2030, Asia and Africa will both have higher numbers of urban dwellers
than any other major area of the world.
 5.8% of children living in poor areas of cities die before reaching the age
of five years.
 29% of cities in poor parts of the world have areas considered
inaccessible or dangerous to the police.
 Sources: WorldBank.org ; UnitedNations.org; Asian Development Index

8. In cities in poor parts of the world, one out of every four households lives in
poverty.
Families with the lowest incomes are most at risk of their children being
malnourished and dying early, have less access to health services, and also
have less access to clean water.
Cities offer young people with higher levels of education greater
opportunities than they do for the less educated. Education, especially for
females, is a key factor linked to success in urban areas.
 The number of people living in poor housing conditions increased from
about 777 to 827 million in 2010 due to rapid urbanization in Asia.
 Over ½ of the people in the world live on less than $2 per day.
 Eleven of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in Asia. Air pollution
contributes to the premature death of half a million Asians each year.

9. Learning Task:
Read the article “Urbanization Text” posted
on the Google Classroom.
Answer the ”Urbanization Questions” in
complete sentences.

10. Homework:
1) What is the current population of the UAE?
2) What is the current population of Dubai?
3) What was the population of Dubai in 1985?
4) What was the population of Dubai in 1990?
5) What was the population of Dubai in 1995?
6) What was the population of Dubai in 2000?
7) What was the population of Dubai in 2005?
8) What is the population of Dubai in 2010?
9) What is the population of Dubai in 2015?
10) What do you predict the population of Dubai will be in 2020?
Here are some helpful sources. Feel free to do your own research as well!
 http://www.dubai-online.com/essential/population/
 https://www.dsc.gov.ae/en-us/Themes/Pages/Population-and-Vital-
Statistics.aspx?Theme=42&year=2015#DSC_Tab1
 http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/society/dubai-population-to-hit-5-2m-by-2030-1.1699750