IBDP Geography Option G: Urban environments

This is for 6th form IBDP Geopgraphy teachers.
This is a group of 8-10 lessons in one PPT with resources. You will need to Oxford course companion booklet and a copy of Geography and integrated approach by David Waugh. All other resources, worksheets, activities can be found in the powerpoint or documents included in this purchase.

These group of lessons cover section 1- the varierty of Urban environments including:

• The characteristics and distribution of urban places, populations and economic activities
• Characteristics of urban places, including site, function, land use, hierarchy of settlement (including megacities) and growth process (planned or spontaneous)
• Factors affecting the pattern of urban economic activities (retail, commercial, industrial), including physical factors, land values, proximity to a central business district (CBD) and planningland use, site, function

There are also part of section 2 Changing urban systems including:
Urbanization, natural increase and centripetal population movements, including rural–urban migration in industrializing cities, and inner city gentrification in postindustrial cities Centrifugal population movements, including suburbanization and counterurbanization

Finally, there are fieldwork oppertunties built into lessons that can be adapted for different urban areas.