1. Urbanisation in LEDCs Why is urbanisation happening in LEDCs?
What are the effects of this?
Where are shanty towns located?
What could be done to improve them?

2. WHERE IS SAO PAULO?
South America, Brazil, Sao Paulo is on the coast just south of Rio de Janeiro

3. Sao Paulo

4. Central Sao Paulo

5. Jardim Colombo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

6. Jardim Colombo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
You can see that Jardim Colombo an favela is on the outskirts of SP

7. What are the ‘push’ factors that would make people want to leave the countryside?
What are the ‘pull’ factors that encourage people to move to the city?

8. Paraisópolis favela, Morumbi, Sao Paulo, a prime example of social segregation

9. If you lived here, what daily hardships would you have to cope with?
Can we split these problems into categories?
Which is the worst hardship?

10. Improving a shanty town…
You are a member of the Ariba shanty town.
You have the job of running a self-help scheme for your fellow shanty town dwellers.
Prioritise the problems in the shanty town using your base sheets and the light blue information sheet.

11. Improving a shanty town…
Now look at the development of Ariba from the point of view of a local authority planner, from the City.
What would they want to do?
Why would they think that? .

12. What can you spend?
Now look at the development of Ariba from the point of view of a local authority planner, from the City.
What would they want to do?
Why would they think that? .