28 mins / Age 14-19/ 2010
Taking Bangalore as a case study we look at the causes of urban poverty, including urbanisation and push pull factors of rural to urban migration. We then visit Bangalores slums to see the impacts of this poverty. The programme provides visual examples of poverty indicators, including: poor housing, sanitation, lack of access to public transport, education, water etc. The programme then visits various poverty alleviation projects covering: sanitation and clean water, housing and overcoming caste prejudice.
Teachers Guidance. Exam board specification links
The following links show how this programme matches different GCSE and AS/A2 specifications.
AQA GCSE Geography A
*Urbanisation is a global phenomenon
*Rapid urbanisation has led to the development of squatter settlements and an informal sector to the economy
*Self Help, Site and Service and Local Authority schemes to improve squatter settlements
*A case study of a squatter settlement redevelopment
*Contrasts in development means that the world can be divided up in many ways.
*Global inequalities are exacerbated by physical and human factors.
*A case study of one development project
AQA GCSE Geography B
* The growth of urban areas in developing countries is a result of natural increase and migration.
*Urban growth in developing countries can create opportunities and challenges.
*Urban areas in developing countries respond to the challenges of growth in different ways
Edexcel GCSE Geography A
*Reasons for the rapid growth of urban areas in LICs
*A study of an LIC urban area to assess the effects of this rapid growth
OCR GCSE Geography B
*How is migration connected to urbanisation?
AQA A level Geography
*Urbanisation: characteristics, causes and effects. Contrasting case studies within countries at different levels of economic development to demonstrate the above
*Causes of poverty
*The issue: No development without security, and no security without development
OCR A level Geography
*Managing urban Change
*Population and Resources
*Development and inequalities
Edexcel A level Geography
*World Cities
*Thinking critically about whether the lives of rural to urban migrants are improved
*Urban inequality
*Superpower geographies
*There is a growing mismatch between water supply and demand, which can lead to water stress either locally, or across whole regions eg economic growth in the RICs such as India.
*Bridging the development gap
Duration : 0:1:24
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