New Cities + Managing Environmental Problems

New Cities + Managing Environmental Problems

IGCSE Geography

Lesson Objectives

• Describe and explain strategies to reduce the negative impacts of urbanisation.

• Research for specific examples of environmental problems in cities​

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IGCSE Geography

New cities or town are designed from scratch and built in a short period of time.

New Cities

Capital city of Brazil​

Brasilia

Capital of Australia

Canberra

Proposed capital of Korea

Gongju-Yongi

• 42 billion dollar plan to reduce the importance of Seoul as Korea's capital by 2020.

• Relocation is needed to ease chronic overcrowding in Seoul​ and reduce danver of a military attack from North Korea.

Gongju-Yongi

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• Indonesia will move its capital from Jakarta to a new city to be built on the island of Borneo.

• The city named Nusantara is being built in the forested province of East Kalimantan, some 2,000 km northeast of Jakarta across the Java Sea

Nusantara​

Naypyitaw, Myanmar

Open Ended

Describe some issues Naypyitaw faced in its early years.

Managing Environmental Problems

IGCSE Geography

Problems such as toxic hazardous waste, pollution of water, air and soil, and industrial 'accident' such as that at Bhopal in 1985.

Issues cause by limitated availability of land, water and services.

Brown Agenda

Brown Agenda: the range of environmental problems associated with large cities.

Water Quality

Dereliction

Air Quality

​Environmental Issues Most Cities Deal With...

Noise

Environmental Health of Population

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​Environmental Issues Most Cities Deal With...

Activity

Group Research

Note: Use your textbook for additional reference

Task:

Cities experience environmental issues such as the following:

• ​waste products and waste disposal (G1)

• ​air pollution (G2)

• water pollution (G3)

• water supply (G4)

• transport-related issues​ (G5)

Note: Use your textbook for additional reference (p. 77)

• Research for a city that experiences the same problem

• You are free to use the 5Ws and 1H Template to research

• ​In your presentation next meeting makes sure to include the following:

  • How does the issue apply to your chosen city?

  • Describe the reasons/causes

  • Describe the government responses/solution

  • Evaluate: was the solution effective?