Urbanization Centripetal and Centrifugal Movements IB Geography II

Urbanization, Centripetal and Centrifugal Movements IB Geography II

Bell Ringer: What is a City? ? 1. Write a working definition of a city. 1. Create a List of the Positives/Negatives you associate with Chicago Elbow Partner Pair Share/Whole Group Share Out

Urbanization Scatter Graph Activity Does urbanization create wealth? How true is this statement? Take 3 minutes to read annotate the data and answer the question.

PART 1: URBANIZATION

The Process of Urbanization • Urbanization: the process by which an increasing percentage of a country’s population comes to live in towns and cities. It may involve both rural-urban migration and natural increase.

Causes of urbanization 1. Rural to urban migration 2. Natural Increase

Rural – urban migration • Rural to urban migration – result of push and pull factors

Push and pull factors Push factors Pull factors Difficult/harsh climate – eg. droughts Chance of a better life Struggle to provide food for family Better housing and amenities Very low income Chance of good jobs – higher wages, more varied employment High rates of population growth have put pressure on natural resources such as water/energy/land Better medical/health care Can’t afford to fertilizers to increase yields Children able to go to school Mechanization of farming favors rich farmer and leads to unemployment or underemployment of poor farmer.

Natural increase • The people that migrate into towns and cities tend to be young resulting in high levels of natural increase • high % of young adults = high levels of births • Falling death rates due to improved medical care means more babies are born than people dying, further increasing the urban population

Data Analysis: Partner Discussions

% urban population

World Urban Population

Elbow Partner Discussions • Using the last 3 data slides, discuss this question: – Why is urbanization considered such a significant development in the world? – What are some of the potential problems you imagine could arise as a result of increased urbanization?

Graphing Global Urbanization Activity • Step 1: Take 5 minutes to read/annotate data set. Be sure to read definition of agglomerations for notecards! • Step 2: Graph the Data. – Create a comparative bar graph showing bars for each continent and different colors for each time period in the handout – Y axis will be number of urban areas in each time period.

Graphing Global Urbanization Activity • Step 3: Analyze the data around changing patterns of urbanization from 1950 -2025 • Answer the following questions on the back of your graph: – How many urban agglomerations had a population greater than 10 million in 1950? Where were these urban areas? – Describe the changes in the number and location of urban agglomerations in 1975, 2000, and 2010. – What changes does the UN project for 2025? – Overall, what is a claim connecting to the biggest pattern you see in the data? – Overall, what is a claim connecting to the biggest trend you see in the data?

PART 2: CENTRIPETAL MOVEMENTS

Urban Processes can be seen as inward and outward movements Inward Movement (Centripetal) Rural to urban migration, gentrification, re-urbanisation, urban renewal Outward Movement (Centrifugal) Suburbanisation, urban sprawl, counter-urbanisation

Centripetal Movements involve the migration of people into towns and cities

Rural Push Factors • High rates of population growth have put pressure on natural resource such as water and energy and reduced the size of land holdings • New farming technology favors the rich farmer, but for others it leads to unemployment or underemployment • Migration for work is often the only option

Urban Pull Factors • Higher wages • More varied employment • Educational opportunities

The Consequences of Urbanization • Economic Growth: – Urban economies are almost always more productive than rural ones – Ex: 9% of Brazil’s population is urban, but they are responsible for over 30% of the GDP. – Industrial productivity is higher in cities.

The Consequences of Urbanization • Gentrification – The Reinvestment of capital inter inner-city areas. – Improvement in residential areas – It is a type of filtering that may lead to the social displacement of poor people (as a place becomes gentrified, housing prices rise and the poor are unable to afford it– often times minorities)

The Consequences of Urbanization – Re-urbanization: (urban renewal) the development of activities to increase residential population densities within the existing built-up area of a city. – This may include the redevelopment of vacant land the refurbishment of housing and the development of new businesses.

The Consequences of Urbanization – Brownfield Sites: abandoned or underused industrial buildings and land, which may be contaminated but have potential for redevelopment

Centrifugal Movements

Centrifugal Movements • Also known as Decentralization • The outward movements of a population from the center of a city towards its edge or periphery, resulting in the expansion of a city.

Suburbanization • Suburb: a residential area just outside the boundaries of a city. • Suburbanization: the outward growth of towns and cities to engulf surrounding villages and rural areas. This may result from the outmigration of population from the inner urban areas to the suburbs.

Urban Sprawl • The unplanned and uncontrolled physical expansion of an urban area into the surrounding countryside. It is closely linked with the process of suburbanization. • Good examples of Urban Sprawl include Mexico City • http: //www. dailymail. co. uk/news/article 2401975/Amazing-aerial-photos-Mexico-Citynatural-boundaries-stand-way. html

Counter-Urbanization • A process involving the movement of populations away from inner urban areas to a new town, new estate, commuter town or village on the edge or just beyond the city limits or rural-urban fringe. • Characteristic of wealthy cities in MEDCs • It is a response to increasing stress of overcrowding, congestion, pollution.

Reasons for counter-urbanisation • • Increased car ownership Increased wealth De-industrialization Relocation of industry/employment to rural urban fringe • Desire for safe, pleasant environment, the rural ideal/utopia • Perception of urban areas as dangerous, high levels of crime, racial/ethnic problems – ‘white flight’ • Change in tenure from public/renting to private ownership. Sell property and move out.

The Consequences of Centrifugal Movements • Centrifugal movements involve a shift of population and economic activity from the center of the urban area to its periphery and beyond, which is detrimental to the center. • Construction of roads and buildings destroy open space and increases air pollution

Response to Consequences • Urban Planners have focused on ways of reviving the urban center and restricting new construction in urban hinterlands • Hinterlands: the zone surrounding a city

The Family Life Cycle • Intra-urban population movement may involve shifts of population during the family life cycle. • A person is likely to move around different zones of city depending on their age and their need for a house of a certain size.