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sc.02 Moving to the city

Content

  • Statement of inquiry
    • Increasing global interactions concentrate more power in cities which can cause unsustainable growth, and increase disparities.
  • Factual questions [Remembering facts and topics]
    • Where are migrants distributed? 
  • Conceptual questions [Analysing big ideas]
    • Why do people move to cities?
  • Debatable questions [Evaluating perspectives and developing theories]
    • Can the movement of people be modelled effectively?
  • Aims of this lesson
    • To have knowledge and understanding of why somebody would move to the city, the process of urbanisation and two differing migration models.

Base knowledge and understanding

Video clip

[31 October 2017]

Visualization

Context

Context

Think

Urbanization through time

[Source]
[12 September 2013]
Link

Definitions

  1. Define each of these geographical terms. The link below the list of terms will help you with some of the definitions.
  • migration
  • urbanisation
  • city [think about the services/infrastructure offered by a city]
    • small city
    • medium sized city
    • large city
    • megacity
  • rural-to-urban migration
  • urban-to-rural migration
  • push factor
  • pull factor
  • forced migration [can you suggest an example?]
  • voluntary migration [can you suggest an example?]
  • seasonal migration [can you suggest an example?]
Link

migrationdataportal.org - Urbanization and migration

Think

Lee's Migration Model - where people migrate to

Lee's Migration Model from Richard Allaway
  1. Add a screenshot of Lee's Migration Model to your notes.
  2. Add a sentence or two to your notes about the positive, negative and neutral factors associated with a location.
  3. Add a sentence or two about what intervening obstacles might be.
  4. What is an intervening place?
Write

Applying Lee's Migration Model to real life

  1. Choose one of the examples from the videos below and build your own version of Lee's Migration Model using the details from the example to label your model.
[9 September 2010]
[19 July 2018]
[10 July 2019]
[20 March 2019]
[14 December 2014]
[19 October 2018]
Think

Ravenstein's Laws of Migration - who migrates

Geography - Ravenstein's Laws of Migration from Richard Allaway
  1. List each of Ravenstein's Laws of Migration in your notes.
  2. Which of Ravenstein's Laws of Migration do you think are still applicable today? Which are not?
  3. Choose one of the video clips above and explain how Ravenstein's Laws of Migration fit to that example.