Exploring the Concepts and Content in IGCSE and IBDP Geography
This video serves as a great crossover between units like urban environments and oceans/coastal margins in the IBDP syllabus. It’s something you should look out for when you do your post-Covid city trips! An interesting video that concerns many of the concepts of space, place, power, spatial interactions, and more. Credit to Half as Interesting Youtube channel for providing this video.
Why the East Ends of (Most) Cities are Poorer – Half as Interesting
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to cause unending disruption, researchers at James Cook University and other collaborators put forth some interesting and thought-provoking possibilities for urban areas in this publication which takes only a couple of minutes to read. One has to wonder what lessons can and should be learned from how we have(n’t) adapted to the current state of affairs on all different scales. A further more comprehensive publication is linked to at the bottom of the article.
https://www.jcu.edu.sg/news/releases/re-evaluating-public-spaces-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
(Credit to: Lisa Law, Simona Azzali and Sheila Conejos)
The article below is an interesting read for anyone interested in both rural and urban environments. Counter-urbanisation, urbanisation, tourism, cultural identity, and architectural design are all interesting themes at play in the plans of building Europe’s tallest sky scraper in Brande, a town of just over 7000 people. Credit to the Guardian for the article, no author named. The photograph below provided by Bestseller and found in the article is of the planned skyscraper.
The following two minute video posted by China Spotlight on youtube demonstrates the negative effects of tourism when not managed properly. Additionally, it illustrates the dangers of social media and more specifically geo-tagging and TikTok bringing awareness to intriguing natural sites. A sea of beautiful pink ‘Hairawn Muhly Grass’ is destroyed by tourists looking for that perfect photo opportunity.
This visualisation offers insight into how urban densities can be compared and contrasted with regards to how much area they would take if the total human population lived according to a particular city’s density. It gives good indications of the processes of urban sprawl, urbanisation, as well as the expansion of the rural-urban fringe. A thought provoking creation!
This video gives useful and interesting knowledge for any geography student or someone interested in international relations or futurology. Great for revision of the core as well as urban environments to a certain extent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMo3nZHVrZ4&feature=emb_logo
The link below is to an excellent resource with regards to many items in the IBDP Geography syllabus. It shows the progression of the most visited countries in the world from 1995 to 2018, using World Bank Data. It has many links to tourism, migration, globalisation, population growth, and more. Thanks user ‘Datalover’ for posting!
In this article with some good visuals, Caitlin Fitzsimmons writes about the potential of Sydney, Australia, being viewed and managed differently than previously with regards to the idea of a ‘green city’. This is a great article with relationships to ecocities, urban processes, microclimates and more.
UCL’s Oliver O’Brien has created an easy to use, informative and interesting map of the tube stops in London, correlating them with the (second) languages spoken by residents in that area. This very informative resource can be helpful in discussions about urban planning, ethnic patterns, and socioeconomic distributions in cities.
Click this link for direct access to the map: https://tubecreature.com/#/tongues/current/same/*/*/FFTFTF/13/-0.1000/51.5200/
Click the link to the article below with some image stills, explanation, and access to the map: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/30/-sp-londons-tube-languages-visualised
For me, this is one of the best clips out there with regards to the nature of the destruction of tsunamis. Shot by Mr. Kenichi Kurakami, and posted by Youtube user clancy688, this unbelievable, first-hand footage gives the viewer an intense sense and understanding of the way tsunamis can approach low-lying coastal margins, and how coastal defences do not always work as intended.