Lagos, a fast growing city

A television report from Lagos in Nigeria on how the city's spiralling population has increased the numbers living in slums.

Formerly the capital of Nigeria, Lagos's uncontrolled population growth has made one of the world's largest cities one of the world's largest slums.

Changing the landscape

People are changing the landscape. People affect the development of a landscape. Why?

There are two reasons:

1 - areas and landscapes change because the population in the area grows.

2 - the areas and the landscapes change because the wealth grows.

Physical landscape	Man-made landscape
A landscape with only physical elements.	A landscape with physical and man-made elements.
Examples of physical elements: -Sea -Oceans -Rivers -Forest -Indigenous vegetation -Mountains and hills	Examples of man-made elements: -Buildings -Road -Canals -Factories -Power station -Bridge

 

                                Physical elements.

                                Man-made elements.

The United States - Location, Size and Regions

A brief educational video on the geography of the United States.

The difference between light and heavy industries

The difference between light and heavy industries

Light (consumer) industries

Characteristics :

• Make small products, mainly to be bought by individuals.
• Most are small-scale, suitable for factory units on industrial estates.
• Only a limited amounts of investment capital is needed.

Examples: electrical goods, clothing, food-processing and toys.

Heavy industries

Characteristics :

• Large-scale industries.
• Big plants covering large areas of land.
• Capital intensive, big investment needed to set them up.
• Make large products often bought by other manufacturing companies.

Examples: steel, oil-refining, chemicals, engineering and ship building.

Germany - topography - cities

Urbanisation and suburbanisation

Urbanisation means an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas.

Although the Netherlands is an urban society, more and more people are choosing to live on the edge of urban areas - with many relocating to the countryside. This is called counter-urbanisation or suburbanisation.