Urbanisation

 

Read the text in the supplement - it will provide necessary information and should inspire your individual long turn talk.

 

Imagine the following situation: Presentation at University

 

Individual Long Turn                                                                                                4-5 min

 

You study at the University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna (BOKU). For a seminar you have to prepare a short statement about the future of agriculture. Due to the international character of your studies, the lectures are held in English.

 

• Describe the concept of urbanisation
• Report about the positive and negative aspects of rapid urban growth
• Speculate about the chances of urban farming in the future 

 

Paired Activity                                                                                                           8-10 min.

 

After your seminar you take some drinks with your colleagues. You converse about different aspects.

 

• The problems of rapid urban growth and strategies to make urban growth sustainable
• Illustrate sustainable ways of farming in the future to nourish the future world´s population
• Analyse the negative influence of the EU agricultural policy on global urbanisation and migration
• Hypothesise about future energy supply in the cities and how cities will look like in 40 years, thinking about transport, etc.