Urban Models and Cities Outside the U S

Urban Models and Cities Outside the U. S. World City Models and Megacities

World City Models Latin American City Model, p. 266 Griffin-Ford http: //lewishistoricalsociety. com/wiki 2011/tiki-read_article. php? article. Id=96

Latin American or Griffin-Ford Model • Look up information on the web and in your textbook on this model • Be sure you can explain the components (much like we are doing with the US urban models) • Be sure you can give a real-world city that is exemplified by this model

Lima, Peru from Google Maps

Southeast Asian City Model, pp. 267 -69 or, Mc. Gee Model http: //lewishistoricalsociety. com/wiki 2011/tiki-read_article. php? article. Id=90

World City Models African City Model, pp. 266 -68

What is a megacity? • Soon, 2 out of 3 people in the world will live in cities • Good article to help give you some basics – https: //www. worldatlas. com/articles/what-isa-megacity. html • Good article for some basic numbers https: //www. huffingtonpost. com/wendellcox/the-worlds-ten-largestme_b_6684694. html

Analyze the raw numbers and places. Now, look at the 20002015 numbers and analyze fertility rates http: //www. mega-change. com/

http: //government-2020. dupress. com/driver/slum-growth-continues-unabated/

Be able to define Slums and Squatter Settlements. These are outside Nairobi, Kenya http: //www. nowpublic. com/environment/nairobis-slums

What is a slum? What is a squatter settlement or shanty town? • Good fact sheet from the United Nations on slums – http: //mirror. unhabitat. org/documents/media_c entre/sowcr 2006/SOWCR%205. pdf • Good fact sheet on squatter settlements/shanty http: //www. coolgeography. co. uk/GCSE/AQA/Ch anging%20 Urban/Shanties/Squatter. Settlements. C haracteristics. htm

http: //footage. framepool. com/en/shot/138152137 -pile-of-rubbish-new-delhi-slum-pauperism

https: //ujenzibora. wordpress. com/2010/10/13/mega-cities-equals-mega-slums-an-african-equation/ http: //dailynews. lk/2015/11/30/features/megacities-and-urbanization-south-asia

Favela in Rio de Janiero http: //getmobetter. wordpress. com/2009/10/09/the-real-rio/

Bidonvilles and Bustees Look up each of these terms http: //40 weeksand 40 cultures. blogspot. com/2013_04_01_archive. html • North Africa (Bidonville) and India (Bustee), respectively – Look these terms up

Global Urban Concepts • Define Primate City and give examples • Define Global Cities and give examples