Global cities Flashcards

1
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Causes of urbanisation

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-Push/pull factors
-Natural increase (people migrate to cities tend to be younger so have more kids)

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2
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Push factors from rural areas

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-Lack of schools
-Lower house prices
-Lack of healthcare
-Less jobs

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3
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Global city

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Well connected by process of urbanisation

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4
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Urbanisation

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Physical and human growth of towns and cities

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5
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Alpha++ cities

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London and New York

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6
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Features of global cities

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-Migration and culture
-Governance and decision making
-Finance and trade
-Transport hubs
-Ideas and imformation

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7
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Factors that drive Globalisation

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-MNCs
-Culture
-Trade
-Migration
-Techonology

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8
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Mega cities

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Cities with a population of 10 million plus people

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9
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What is Mumbai

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LIC, finance centre of india, gateway to asia during british colonisum

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10
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Reasons for growth in Mumbai

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-Rural urban migration
-Women
-Joining families
-Education

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11
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Urban Pull factors

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-Employment oppurtunites
-Acsess to education
-Avalibility of healthcare
-Sense of life will change

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12
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Pull factors of Mumbai

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-Biggest financial centre so more employoment
-Higher wages
-Better education
-People don’t want to form in rural areas

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13
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Issues in Dharavi

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-Chawls (4 or 5 story tennant buildings)
-73 percent of residents use communal latrines
-Railway safety (lots of people used train)
-Crime
-Fast spread of diseases

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14
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Ways of improving rail safety in Mumbai

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Barries, voice annoucners

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15
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Positives of Dharavi

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-Mumbais main recylcing centre
-10 000 different business
-Makes 65 million dollars per year

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16
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Negatives of Dharavi

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-Cramped conditions with little privacy so diseases spread fast
-5 perent have private toilets
-Children drop out of school to help

17
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Aims of vision Mumbai

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Improve roads and decrease congestion on trains, clear slum housing, improve air qaulity, create jobs in construction tourisum and retail areas

18
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Advantages of top down development

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-Help area on a large scale
-Residents dont have to pay
-Help socially and can be environmentally conscious

19
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Disadvantages of top down development

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-Expensive
-Changes may be unwanted to an are

20
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Micro credit

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Low interest repayment

21
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Plans in Mumbai to help transport

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Metreosystem elavated highway, 160 energy efficient trains

22
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Plans in Mumbai to help housing

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20 000 slum dwellers moved inyo new apartments

23
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Plans in Mumbai yo help enviroment

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305 new open spaces, 300 public toulets

24
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Plains in Mumbai to help employoment

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20 000 service sector jobs

25
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Dharavi project

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Bottom up initiative that aims to legitmise rag pickers in the waste industry

26
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Reasons for migration to london

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-Wind rush
-Baby boom after war

27
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London pull factors

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-Jobs
-Housing
-Better acess to services
-Diversity

28
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Effects of traffic

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-Visual pollution
-Delay in deliveries
-Increased prob of acid rain
-Noise pollution
-Increased cars increased temp in cities

29
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Stats for Pollution in london

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-Failed EU standards
-Only recycle 32 percent 43 is national average

30
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Stats for poverty

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58 percent of people in london in a workinf family are in poverty

31
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Cycle of deprevation

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-Area of land left derelict
-People move
-Poorest left behind
-Environment declines
-Social issues
-New industries reluctant to return
-Industry declines and companes move away