URBAN+ENVIRONMENTS

Lots of great information and some of the tasks are on: [|http://www.geographyalltheway.com/igcse_geography/population_settlement/settlement/settlement.htm]

**Transport in urban areas data.**

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**Environmental Quality in urban areas:**

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 * 1) Watch the starter clip
 * 2) Do the tasks from the first page of the worksheet Urbanisation and the environment . Make notes into your file.

Fieldwork opportunity: Environmental Quality Surveys and land use transects.

Use ‘Fieldwork Design: A Geographical Approach’ by Jim Nettleship. Topic 5: Quality of Environment. See quality of environment doc. Plan your group’s fieldwork as follows: See doc:

· Use the same General aim and hypothesis. · Add one more hypothesis about environmental quality and land use. · Add one more hypothesis of your own about environmental quality and another variable. · Rewrite the methods to fit into a study in Hong Kong. · Produce a suitable data recording sheet. Justify the methods chosen. · Use the Sha Tin digital map to select and show a possible route and study locations. Explain why you chose this route and these locations. (Could you use Google Earth to show the route and present data?) Look at **‘ A-Z Advancing Geography: Fieldwork’ ** P42-43 (Residential environmental analysis), 48-49 (Land use mapping) and 90-91 (Residential surveys). Other pages might also be useful for noise pollution, traffic counts, etc?

=New York case study:=

a. Land Use pattern
i. Read WW p50-52. See outline maps of New York.

See [] = New York City land use

ii. Use the website and an outline map to produce a simple land use map for NY. (Look at WW p43, fig 3.23 and EIG p154, fig 6.14 for examples.) It might be best to start with commercial and mark the CBD? Which land use will you do next? Which colour is higher quality housing? What will you do where the land uses overlap?

iii. Go to google maps / street view and do a ‘walk through’ some of the areas on your map. Does it match what your map shows? Can you add annotations to your map to add specific details about what areas are like? Should anything be added, eg railway lines?

iv. Write a description and explanation for the patterns you have found. Include factors like accessibility, land values, proximity to the river / industry, etc


 * b. **** Segregation in New York: **

i. Read the handout “Causes of segregation”. source = []

ii. Complete the task page at the back of the handout.

iii. Add information from other sites, such as [] = ethnic data map of NY /USA [] [] = New York City unemployment rates.

**Shanty towns**



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For Michael Jackson try []

See [|**http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/29/brazil-drugs-trade**] = pics of “the battle to control Rio’s slums”