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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