Comparing cities
TTO1 - Chapter 6
You found out what a city is. Now you will compare some cities with each other. Step by step we will guide you through this process. The end result is a presentation with the comparison.
Step 1 - You explain why Oud-Beijerland is (not) a city.
Step 2 - You choose one of the following Dutch cities:
Rotterdam
The Hague
Utrecht
Amsterdam
Step 3 - You choose one of the following foreign cities:
London
Manchester
Paris
Lyon
Berlin
Frankfurt
Rome
Milan
Madrid
Barcelona
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Sao Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Beijing
Shanghai
Wuhan
Shenzhen
Tokio
Yokohama
New Delhi
Mumbai
Sydney
Melbourne
Step 4 - You collect the following information about both cities:
What do the cities look like?
Do your cities have a CBD (central business district)?
In which countries are your cities located?
Is this city the capital of this country?
What is the population of your cities (how many people live in your cities)? https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/22691/istanbul/population
How many cities in the country have more inhabitants?
Show the city growth from 1950-2037 of both cities.
What are some reasons (two or three) why these cities grew so much?
Compare the population numbers of macrotrends.net with wikipedia.
Try to explain the difference in information.
Find your city on Google maps (satellite mode).
What does the area around the city look like (rural or an urban network for example)?
What are the three most important differences between your Dutch and foreign city?
Step 5 - Build the presentation
Put your information in a presentation (Powerpoint or Google Presentations).
For an example of a presentation click on the pdf-file in classroom.
When you have put all of the information in a presentation, hand in the presentation in the "final test" file in classroom.