{"id":115,"date":"2010-05-10T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/igcse-geography\/2010\/05\/10\/a-ledc-urban-land-use-zones-and-b-squatter-settlements-their-causes-problems-and-solutions\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:00:22","slug":"a-ledc-urban-land-use-zones-and-b-squatter-settlements-their-causes-problems-and-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/igcse-geography\/a-ledc-urban-land-use-zones-and-b-squatter-settlements-their-causes-problems-and-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"A) LEDC Urban Land Use Zones and B) Squatter Settlements – their Causes, Problems and Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Favela<\/a><\/p>\n

[Source: flickr <\/font>kevin.j<\/font><\/b><\/a> <\/font>Some rights reserved<\/font><\/a>]<\/p>\n

The IGCSE Geography syllabus requires that you can do the following related things:<\/p>\n

 A) Land Use Zones <\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Describe and give reasons for the characteristics of land use zones of urban areas in LEDCs.<\/p>\n

2) Identify the differences in the patterns of urban structures in cities of LEDCs and MEDCs. <\/p>\n

B) Squatter Settlements <\/strong><\/p>\n

3) Describe the problems of squatter settlements in LEDCs, their causes and possible solutions.<\/p>\n

4) You should make reference to selected examples to illustrate suggested solutions to overcome the problems of squatter settlements (in other words know case studies). <\/p>\n

Suggested activity: <\/strong>create a Google Document (or Google presentation if you prefer) to cover the above points under suitable headings. <\/p>\n

Resources: <\/strong><\/p>\n

a) Land Use Zones <\/u><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/schools\/gcsebitesize\/geography\/settlement\/urbanmod_ledcrev1.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

 http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/schools\/gcsebitesize\/geography\/settlement\/urbanmod_ledcrev2.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

 http:\/\/www.s-cool.co.uk\/gcse\/geography\/settlements\/urban-morphology.html#urban-models-for-ledcs<\/a> <\/p>\n

Your text book <\/p>\n

b) Squatter Settlements (Brazilian focus) <\/u><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.sln.org.uk\/geography\/geoweb\/blowmedown\/shanty05.swf<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk\/gcse\/settlement.html#ledcs<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.s-cool.co.uk\/gcse\/geography\/settlements\/urbanisation.html#shanty-towns-in-ledcs<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/schools\/gcsebitesize\/geography\/settlement\/urbanmod_ledcrev3.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/schools\/gcsebitesize\/geography\/settlement\/urbanmod_ledcrev4.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/courses\/geog61\/chad\/thefavel.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Opengecko Google Revision Document \u2013 Rio de Janeiro<\/a><\/p>\n

Your text book <\/p>\n

Slides 5 to 15 of the following: <\/p>\n

IGCSE Settlement Change Review<\/a><\/strong><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n
View more presentations<\/a> from Ecumene <\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Source: flickr kevin.j Some rights reserved] The IGCSE Geography syllabus requires that you can do the following related things:  A) Land Use Zones 1) Describe and give reasons for the characteristics of land use zones of urban areas in LEDCs. 2) Identify the differences in the patterns of urban structures in cities of LEDCs and MEDCs.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,79],"tags":[31,88,87,91,90,89],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igcse-geography","category-settlement","tag-favelas","tag-land-use","tag-ledc","tag-model","tag-morphology","tag-squatter-settlements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}