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urbanisation is |
the growing proportion of a population that live in urban areas |
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urbanisation is mainy caused by... |
rural-urban migration |
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urbanisation push factors are.... |
things that push people away from the rural area like desertifcation, conflict, mechanistation of agriculture. (in LEDCs factors are often linked to poverty |
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urbanisation pull factors are... |
things that attract people to an urban area like prospects employment, health, education, perceived better quality of life |
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a world city is... |
a city that has influence on a global scale. They are centres for trade and business, and they also tend to be hubs of culture and science (e.g. Tokyo, New York, London) |
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Mumbai is.. |
- a mega city on the west coast of India. - globally important and a centre of industry, finance, and culture (home of Bollywood film industry) |
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mumbai's population has grown from ____ to ____ between ____ and _____ |
5.9 million to 12.5 million 1971-2011 |
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impacts of rapid urbanistation on mumbai |
- growth of slums (dharavi) with poorly, built cramped housing often without water supply or sanitation - poor health care and high incidence of disease like malaria or dengue fever - More people = more waste - water supply is dependant on monsoon rains and is strictly rationed
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healthcare only reaches __ of the population |
30% |
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neighbourhood of ___burn their waste which causes ___. Has lead to health issues, between 2007 and 2008 ____ of deaths here were respiritory related. |
Chembur air pollution 25% |
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mumbai has a population density of ____ |
29,000 per sq Km |
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Suburbanisation is |
the movement of people from the city cntre to the outskirts, or suburbs |
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In ___ the DRP (______) was announced. It aimed to ________________________. However people were strongly against it because ______________ |
-2004 -Dharavi redevelopment project -Clear the slums and replace it with improved buildings and infrastructure -worried it would destroy their livelihoods and community spirit -only for those registered before 2000, included one of the cleanest oldest communities with houses double the size of those proposed. |
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slum sanitation project started in ____ by NGOs it built ______ in mumbai slums |
1995 330 toilet blocks |
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mumbai upgrading public transport system, metro system will cover ____ and be completed by ___ |
140km 2121 |
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suburbanisation push factors |
- poor quality (UK houses built in the 1940s small, lacked basic services) - as cities growing poor quality housing (slums) may be cleared and inhabitants relocated on the outskirts -deindutrialisation, people lose jobs -unemployment increases in the city, less disposable income, shops and services close (urban decline) |
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suburbanisation pull factors |
-planning laws more relaxed outside the city centre (UK 1950s housing estates built on edges) -improved mobility (increased car ownership, better public transport) -more shops, jobs and services available on outskirts as businesses move out of the CBD |
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Navi Mumbai |
A town of 1 million people created to reduce congestion and population density in mumbai |
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Suburbanisation impacts on city centre |
-buildings are abandoned, CBD bevomes derelict -as busineses leave unemployment increases, leading to lower living standards and poverty -more affluent move to subutbs where QoL is better. People left behind are poorer and often foreign imigrants. Can lead to economic and ethnic segregation -some may still commute from the suburbs to the city, increases congestion and pollution |
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Suburbanisation impacts on suburbs |
-building on green belt, loss of habitat -Urban sprawl, more ground is concreted over, surface run off and chance if floods increase -Most own cars, number of cars on roads increase, congestion and pollution -rise in land price, harder for those on lower income to move there, economic segregation |
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____ of working population in _____ drive to work because it is in _____ so fares into London are _____ |
40% Surbiton Travel zone 6 Expensive |
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_____ of Surbiton households own a car |
70% |
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In surbiton the average selling price in ____was ____ almost double th UK average of_____ |
April 2012 £406,000 £226,000 |
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Managing impacts of Suburbanisation |
-redevelopment schemes (big city plan) -restrictions on land use (green belt) -reduce traffic congestion (london congestion charge) -flood defence schemes (Shrewsbury in Shropshire on the river Severn) |
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The Big City Plan, launched in ____ and costing ____ aims to redevelop ___ inner city areas. The proposal includes space for ______, ____ and _____ uses as well as _____ new homes and _____ new jobs which will contribute ____ per annum to the economy |
2011 £1 billion Businesses, shops and cultural 5000 50,000 £2.1 billion |
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The Big City plan will allow for ___ expansion of the city core |
25% |
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(BCP) ____ library construction which is already receiving ____ the visitors of the old library in it's last year |
£188 millionDouble |
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_____ gateway project to renovate Birmingham New Street station |
£600 million |
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Birmingham used to be ____ with ___ of the population working in manufacturing in ____. By ___ this had dropped to____. Since 1997 ______ manufacturing jobs had been lost and the economy was devastated |
A wealthy centre of manufacturing 44% 1978 2007 10% 200,000 |
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Urban renewal is... |
Larhe scale redevelopment of an urban area so it better meets the needs of people |
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Urban consolidation involves.... |
Increasing the population by building medium to high density housing on reclaimed land |
