G4- Sustainable Cities- Example Issues- Geography

1. Under Pressure
L/I: To analyse how pressures are
changing cities in different ways

2. L/I: To analyse how pressures are changing cities in different ways
Pressures London Shanghai
Pressures of
transport and
communications.
Problem of wealth
disparity
The issue of areal
extent
Problems for the
quality of the
environment

3. Post it notes
• Annotate the ideas on your table
• We will then discuss and look for links in the
ideas in 20 mins time

4. London
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5. London- Where new houses are built.
This map, courtesy of Barney Stringer,
of regeneration consultancy Quod,
finishes the story. The blue dots are
homes built during the 1930s: a thick
ring right around London. If you've
ever wondered why so much of outer
London looks identical, just miles
upon miles of endless semi detached
homes, then this is why.
Stringer's map only features homes
within the bounds of today's Greater
London, of course. But the shape of
the city today is very similar to the
shape of the city then. The speed of
London's physical expansion after
World War One had scared the hell
out of just about everyone, and led
directly to the imposition of the
Metropolitan Green belt. After nearly
two and a half century of physical
growth, in the mid-20th century,
London stopped.
Now, of course, the city is expanding
once again – in population, if not in
scale. The question now is whether
we have room for it.

6. London- Wealth Disparity

8. Shanghai- 26 years of change

9. Shanghai 1992-2009

11. Shanghai- Wealth

12. Shanghai- Roads and Congestion

14. Plenary- Exam Q Structure
• How would you structure the exam question
below?
Describe ways in which transport and
communications are changing in cities. To what
extent are the changes sustainable? [25]