Wednesday, January 20, 2016

  1)      Find and label the cities of Lagos and Jakarta on the map.
   2 )      What country and continent is Lagos in? _____________, __________________.   
    3)      What country and continent is Jakarta in? ______________, ________________.
    4)      Why does the author compare today’s Third World Urbanization to London in 1910?

    5)      Describe the comparison between the population growth of Chinese cities in the 1980’s and the population growth of Europe in the 19th Century.


   6  )      Look at Figure 1, “World Population Growth.” Describe the change in population growth between 1950 and 2030.


   7)      Look at Figure 2 “Third World Megacities.” For the following cities, what is the % increase of population between 1950 and 2004?  (To calculate the percentage increase: First: work out the difference (increase) between the two numbers you are comparing. Then: divide the increase by the original number and multiply the answer by 100.)
Mexico City   _______________    New York ___________ 
Jakarta  _______________            Bogota’  _____________
   8)      Find and label the cities of Dhaka and Karachi on the map.
   9)      What country and continent is Dhaka in? ___________, _____________.
  10)   What country and continent is Karachi in?  ___________, _____________.
  11)   What year will be the middle of the 21st Century? _______________.
  12)   If Mexico City reaches its predicted “mid-twenty-first century population,” what % increase would that represent compared to Mexico City’s 2004 population?  ________________.
   13)   Find and label Sao Paulo on the map?
   14)   What country and continent is Sao Paulo in?  ____________, _______________.
   15)   What does the author mean when he writes that, in Sao Paulo, “urbanization and favelization” are synonymous?


   16)   What does the author mean by “annual housing deficit”?
    17)   The estimated 2015 slum population of “Black Africa” is comparable to the total population of what nation? ___________
   18)   What point is the author making in the last sentence on p. 19?



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