I designed this presentation for teaching sociology to students on the UOL International Foundation Programme. The reading and tasks correlate to the coursebook, additionally the article on Urbanisation in Shenzhen can be found on https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/10/story-of-cities-39-shenzhen-from-rural-village-to-the-worlds-largest-megalopolis

1. IFP Sociology Final Year
Cities Part 1
1. Explain why people migrate to cities and the kind of impact this has on
people’s life chances
2. Apply understanding of urbanisation to a local and contemporary
example

2. Urbanisation

4. Urbanisation
• 1. Divide the positive and negative features of urban life
Positive Negative
5 minutes

5. Urbanisation
Write down the push and pull factors
that lead to urbanisation
5 minutes

6. Urbanisation in China1992

7. Urbanisation in China
2002

8. Urbanisation in China
2018

9. Push and Pull Factors in
Shenzhen
• Your task is to read the article and
write down some of the problems
faced and the opportunities enjoyed
by the residents of Shenzhen
• The article and photographs from The Guardian are
taken from the work of Bandurski 2015

10. Urbanisation in China
• 1. Write down the push and
pull factors of urbanisation

11. The End

12. Cities IFP Final Year Part 2
. 1)
. 2) Discuss the similarities and differences in
urbanisation in developed and developing country contexts
. 3) Discuss impact of urbanisation from gender
perspective

14. Urbanisation in the Developed
World: Surburbanisation
• Suburbanisation is the word used to describe the growth
in relatively affluent quiet residential areas populated by
mostly white middle class families on the outskirts of
cities

15. Inner-City
Decay/Ghettoisation
the 1990s inner city areas came to be known as ghettos containing a range of

16. Gentrification
• The process of ghettoisation is being reversed as social housing
projects are being demolished and city centres experience
‘regeneration projects’
• The working classes that once inhabited these areas can no
longer afford to live in the areas they once grew up in

17. Gentrification

19. Urbanisation in the
Developing World
• Write down the 3 most interesting things you learned
from this video

21. Slums and the Rise of the
Informal Economy

22. What is the link between urbanisation and
the informal economy?

23. Urbanisation and Gender
• Does urbanisation have a
positive or negative impact for
women?
• Is this different for
developing/developed countries?