Global cities Flashcards
Causes of urbanisation
-Push/pull factors
-Natural increase (people migrate to cities tend to be younger so have more kids)
Push factors from rural areas
-Lack of schools
-Lower house prices
-Lack of healthcare
-Less jobs
Global city
Well connected by process of urbanisation
Urbanisation
Physical and human growth of towns and cities
Alpha++ cities
London and New York
Features of global cities
-Migration and culture
-Governance and decision making
-Finance and trade
-Transport hubs
-Ideas and imformation
Factors that drive Globalisation
-MNCs
-Culture
-Trade
-Migration
-Techonology
Mega cities
Cities with a population of 10 million plus people
What is Mumbai
LIC, finance centre of india, gateway to asia during british colonisum
Reasons for growth in Mumbai
-Rural urban migration
-Women
-Joining families
-Education
Urban Pull factors
-Employment oppurtunites
-Acsess to education
-Avalibility of healthcare
-Sense of life will change
Pull factors of Mumbai
-Biggest financial centre so more employoment
-Higher wages
-Better education
-People don’t want to form in rural areas
Issues in Dharavi
-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
Ways of improving rail safety in Mumbai
Barries, voice annoucners
Positives of Dharavi
-Mumbais main recylcing centre
-10 000 different business
-Makes 65 million dollars per year