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What is Urbanisation?
Urbanisation: Is the increase in the proportion of people living in urban environments such as towns and cities
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Examine the graphs below and describe the change between urban and rural populations.
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Discuss the causes of Urbanisation
- Make a list of the key causes
- Try to place them in a rank order of most important to least important
The development of a Shanty Town
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- Define the term 'Shanty Town' and 'Squatter Settlement' .
- Why do they develop?
- Where do they develop?
- Using the interactive exercise below explore and make notes on the stages a shanty town passes through.
Life in Shanty Towns
Case Study: Kibera - Nairobi
- Locate Kibera
- Explain who lives there, where they came from and why they moved.
- What are the problems in Kibera?
- Explain some strategies in place to improve Kibera? Have they been successful?
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BBC Story: A slum life.
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