UN estimates suggest that two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities within 50 years.
 
 
 
 
 
Task Make notes on urbanisation & the urbanisation cycle. Describe & comment on the pattern shown on slides 4 and 6.

Urbanisation

Editor's Notes

  • #2 The Gangtie Road in Baotou, north-west China, is filled with people on bicycles commuting to work at the local steel mills. The 60,000 workers here produce 1.5m tons of steel a year, an essential product for China's modernisation.