Megacities 😊 Flashcards
What is a mega city?
A city with over 10 million people
What are the 2 reasons that mega cities have grown?
- natural increase
- rural to urban migration
What are pull factors?
2 examples
Positives of host country (one you want to move to)
- employment rates
- healthcare improvements
What are push factors?
2 examples
Negatives of source country (one you’ve come from)
- poverty
- conflict
What is sent back to a source country?
- remittances (money)
- information and arrangements
LIC case study for a developing mega city?
Karachi, Pakistan
Population facts for Karachi
Population of over 24 million- growing 5% annually
Negatives of Karachi X7
- Half of population live in slums
- No proper sewage system
- Poverty
- Increase in ethnic violence and crime
- Bad conditions in ad hoc settlements
- Increase in pollution
- Peripheral settlements are in place
What are ad hoc settlements?
Homes made of industrial waste, bamboo etc that people find in the river beds
What are peripheral settlements?
Why are they expanding?
Areas of housing with no legal electricity, water connections, schools, health care or open spaces
Expanding as the government is far long to manage the structure of the city
Positives of Karachi?
- most highly populated city in Pakistan
- second most populous mega city in the world
- centre of finance, industry and trade
- lots of employment in industrial sectors
- lots of internal migration
- famous university city
