M3a: The City Under Strain
M3a: Module Intro
M3a: The City Under Strain
⭐ Your path7 steps. The important knowledge in this module: the backbone you need to practise. Do them in order.0 of 7 done
🔎 Go deeper · 6
🔎 Go deeperExtension. Pushing for a top grade, or found a step hard? These build on the same ideas, so you can stretch or consolidate.
- I can name the seven challenges of rapid urban growth, and show that the syllabus statement has two halves — opportunities AND challenges
- I can read and plot a Lorenz curve, use the Gini score, and explain why the city is the richer place and the more unequal one at the same time
- I can describe the global service gap with precise wording, and explain how rapid growth strains schools and water supplies in a real city
- I can explain why roads fill faster than a city can widen them, and how traffic feeds the air pollution that reaches people who never drive
- I can explain why the case-study city floods within hours of heavy rain, and describe what one flood cost
- I can balance the strains against the investment growth attracts, and quote every figure with the caveat that makes it honest
🔎 Go deeperExtension. Pushing for a top grade, or found a step hard? These build on the same ideas, so you can stretch or consolidate.
- I can name the seven challenges of rapid urban growth, and show that the syllabus statement has two halves — opportunities AND challenges
- I can read and plot a Lorenz curve, use the Gini score, and explain why the city is the richer place and the more unequal one at the same time
- I can describe the global service gap with precise wording, and explain how rapid growth strains schools and water supplies in a real city
- I can explain why roads fill faster than a city can widen them, and how traffic feeds the air pollution that reaches people who never drive
- I can explain why the case-study city floods within hours of heavy rain, and describe what one flood cost
- I can balance the strains against the investment growth attracts, and quote every figure with the caveat that makes it honest