Assignment Details

Data response Urbanisation

24-25

8HP Geography Mrs Howitt

Date Due

Sept. 26, 2024

Additional Info
Please do 20 minutes on the intro and first paragraph of your data response for homework (We'll talk through the second paragraph on the second graph next lesson and I will give you 20 minutes to write the second paragraph.)

Answer plan for intro and first paragraph:
Intro: Start with a definition of urbanisation: the increasing proportion of people living in towns and cities.

Para 1: -Describe the general trend worldwide ie urbanisation has been increasing.
 -Support this with raw data, calculate the percentage point increase (subtract the 1990 figure from the 2014 figure). 
-Calculate the percentage increase (NB different to percentage point increase) by taking the difference between the 2 values, dividing it by the starting value and then multiplying that by 100. 
-Do the same for the projected urbanisation into the future ie is urbanisation due to increase between 2014 and 2050, again calculate the percentage point increase and the percentage increase.
-Can you explain the increases? eg can you use the term 'rural to urban migration' and talk about rural 'push factors' (ie the negative things about living in the countryside encouraging people to leave) and urban 'pull factors' ( are the positive things drawing people in) (look back to your Manchester work- can you use the words mechanisation, industrialisation. 
-Then describe and explain any anomalies: look at percentage point increases of other continents and percentage increases. Can you group them in any way eg developed vs developing/emerging continents in order to explain differing rates of change?