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Urbanisation: why are cities growing?

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  • 11 questions
  • 30 marks
  • about 30 minutes
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Find out what urbanisation and urban growth mean, how the share of people living in cities has changed since 1950, and why cities keep growing.

15 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Where the world's people live, 1950 and 2025
  5. Two ways a city grows
  6. I Do
  7. Hinge Check
  8. We Do
  9. The world's three largest cities, 2025
  10. Push or pull?
  11. Explain why cities are growing
  12. Self-Check: a model answer
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