Creating Your Model City - Year 8 WORK IN PROGRESS

In the last few lessons we have been looking at the problems that face many cities in both developed and developing worlds. You have an extended series of homeworks to complete the following tasks:
1) Create a model/map of your perfect city - look here for my help sheet which also includes the success criteria.
2) Produce a poster that advertises your city and would make people want to live here again look at the advice and success criteria.
3) Give a 1 minute presentation on your city.

We have talked about this homework a lot and I have kept on using the idea of sustainability. Most of you seem to be coping with it, but you might want to read the following links for a wider perspective. Remember the skills we said you would need to use when gathering information from the internet!
An excellent starting point is the Global Eye website. This looks at many of the ideas we have been covering.
Making the modern world looks at Curitiba in Brazil and the attempts to make it sustainable. Want to know more about Curitiba? Then look at this website for some ideas or this one which is quite easy
I like the Tate Modern Global Cities Exhibition which has some interesting ideas about urban areas.
The video ''Cities in a Changing World'' on the same site does not offer any solutions, but does set the scene with some super facts and searching questions. Nice backing track as well! Look at the 'speed' section for an idea of the Highway Parks of Istanbul.
This is interesting!