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

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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.