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Planning For Change. Which case study?. Describe and explain how a campaign has been used to combat unfair work or trade practices. You have studied an LEDC city. Explain how decision makers are trying to solve the problems of rapid urban growth. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Planning For
Change
Which case study?
1. Describe and explain how a campaign has been used to combat unfair work or trade practices.
2. You have studied an LEDC city. Explain how decision makers are trying to solve the problems of rapid urban growth.
3. For one named example, explain how decision managers are dealing with the problems of either:
• Waste• Traffic
4. You have studied an MEDC city. Explain how jobs and customers are being attracted back to the CBD.
5. You have studied a TNC. Explain the impact that TNCs have on host nations.
What do I need to know?What do I need to know?
• Greenfield/Brownfield• Rapid growth in an LEDC city (causes, problems and
solutions) - MEXICO CITY• Solving waste and traffic problems in an LEDC city -
CURITIBA • Changing employment structures• TNCs - COCA COLA• A camplaign against unfair trade - FAIR TRADE AND
THE KUAPA KOOKO• Changes in MEDC cities (rural urban fringe, CBD fighting
back) - CAMBRIDGE
Green vs Brown
Advantages Disadvantages
Green
Brown
Rapid growth
• Cities in LEDCs are growing rapidly - why?– Push factors– Pull factors
• What are the consequences of this?– Think about Mexico City
Making life better in Mexico City
• No driving today• Self help schemes - Cemex• Opportunitades
– Helps 5 million people– Loans for home improvements– Benefits to over 70s and disabled– Free school breakfasts– Community crime prevention methods
• Banco Azteca micro finance• Inter-American Development Bank
Solving waste and traffic problems
CURITIBACURITIBAWasteWaste TrafficTraffic
CURITIBACURITIBA
Employment structure
I’m writing some
software
The changing economy
75% 15% 2%
15% 55% 29%
10% 30% 69%
Always Coca Cola
• The Coca Cola Company is a TNC
• Explain how Coke operates
TNCs
Advantages of being Transnational
Host country
Costs Benefits
Kuapa Kokoo
• The Fair Trade Foundation is working with the Kuapa Kokoo Farmer’s Co-operative in Ghana
• Rather than selling beans to the government and then onto the chocolate manufacturers, the Kuapa Kokoo Co-op deals directly
Kuapa Kokoo
• The farmers earn more now• The Co-op can now provide loans to
other farmers• Farmers have learnt income-generating
skills to ensure they have money all year round (like making soap from potash)
• New community wells have been dug
Cambridge
• Draw an annotated sketch map of Cambridge– What changes are occurring in the rural-urban
fringe?• Science Parks• Houses• Shopping
– How are businesses and shoppers being attracted back to the CBD
Which case study?
1. Describe and explain how a campaign has been used to combat unfair work or trade practices.
2. You have studied an LEDC city. Explain how decision makers are trying to solve the problems of rapid urban growth.
3. For one named example, explain how decision managers are dealing with the problems of either:
• Waste• Traffic
4. You have studied an MEDC city. Explain how jobs and customers are being attracted back to the CBD.
5. You have studied a TNC. Explain the impact that TNCs have on host nations.