Towns & Cities Unit
3 modules covering why is everyone moving to the city — and will it ever stop? where urban growth is fastest and why, what the city promises and what rapid growth does, and how cities can be managed — built for the 2027 cambridge igcse syllabus with kuala lumpur woven throughout
Your route through the unit.
Start anywhere — M1 is the gentlest way in.Module 1
Where People Live
More than half of humanity now lives in a town or city — but the fastest growth is happening in the poorest places. Where urban growth varies, why cities in LICs are growing so rapidly, and how Kuala Lumpur became a city of eight million.
Module 2
The Promise of the City
The city makes six promises — culture, housing, services, leisure, consumption and economic development. Why cities pull people in, how one new job becomes many, and what Kuala Lumpur offers those who hear the call.
Module 3a
M3a: The City Under Strain
Growth strains a city in ways you can measure — unequal incomes, stretched services, hours lost in traffic, tonnes of waste a day and floods that arrive within hours. How rapid growth stretches Kuala Lumpur and cities worldwide, and why the money keeps arriving anyway.