Retailing, Global Cities, Global Cities Connections, Mumbai & Cardiff

Question 1

What do the letters CBD stand for?

Answer 1

Central Business District

Question 2

What are the 5 economic factors have changed retailing?

Answer 2

• Home delivery firms
• Congestion in cities
• Free parking at out of town retail parks
• High parking costs in city centres
• Monthly wages.

Question 3

What 2 cultural factors have changed retailing?

Answer 3

• Car-dependent society

- Bulk buying

Question 4

What 4 technological factors have changed retailing?

Answer 4

• High broadband speeds
• Sophisticated websites
• Online-only retailers
• Internet Banking.

Question 5

What are 4 benefits of out of town shopping centres?

Answer 5

• Large free car parking
• near major road junctions
• room for expansion
• cheaper land values
• near suburban housing estates.

Question 6

What are 4 costs of out of town shopping centres?

Answer 6

• Attracts shoppers away from CBD
• Cause congestion on surrounding roads
• Chain stores
• Land use conflict with other developments such as business parks.

Question 7

What are 4 benefits of internet shopping?

Answer 7

• Convenient and cheaper
• Purchase products you can’t buy locally
• less time consuming
• reduction in traffic congestion
• delivery jobs.

Question 8

What are the costs of internet shopping?

Answer 8

• Not everyone has the internet
• difficult to return products
• CBD loses trade and therefore job loses
• Delivery vans mean more traffic congestion
• Online card fraud.

Question 9

Give ways that Lancaster CBD fought back

Answer 9

• New paving in pedestrianised areas
• new street furniture
• Signage (Wayfinding)
• Market day on Wednesday
• Secure bike racks
• Trees planted.

Question 10

What does the word urbanisation mean?

Answer 10

The growth of towns and cities

Question 11

How many residents does a city need to have before it is called a ‘megacity’?

Answer 11

10 million

Question 12

Many of the worlds fastest-growing cities are expected to be in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. T/F?

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What does the word globalisation mean?

Answer 13

• The global web of links between countries involving people
• trade
• ideas and culture

Question 14

What are global cities?

Answer 14

Cities that play an important role in the global economic system of finance and trade.

Question 15

What some features do global cities have?

Answer 15

• Finance & Trade
• Governance and decision making
• Media and information (Ideas, Information, innovation)
• Migration Cultural centres (Diversity)
• Transport hubs

Question 16

What are the push and pull factors that have caused rural to urban migration in Mumbai your NIC city example?

Answer 16

Push - Countryside areas are poor, lack healthcare, limited job opportunities, poor sanitation
Pull - Job opportunities, Cheap rail travel, More educational opportunities.

Question 17

What connections does Mumbai have to the rest of the world?

Answer 17

• Mumbai international airport
• Tata Steel
• Bollywood

Question 18

What types of jobs do the people that live in extreme poverty in Mumbai do?

Answer 18

Informal jobs

Question 19

What is the name of Mumbai’s biggest slum?

Answer 19

Dharavi

Question 20

Give 2 urban challenges Mumbai faces

Answer 20

• Reducing poverty and deprivation

- Housing (Chawls, Squatter Homes-Slums, Pavement Dwellers.)

Question 21

The HIC global city of Cardiff has a large sphere of influence that connects it to the rest of the world give 3 examples of how.

Answer 21

• International airport
• The Principality Stadium (Millennium Stadium)
• Admiral a Multinational Company
• BBC TV Programmes such as Dr Who.

Question 22

Cardiff has a large Somali community. T/F?

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Cardiff does not have a congestion problem. T/F

Answer 23

False

Question 24

Cardiff has many commuters from the surrounding areas. T/F?

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Give urban challenges that Cardiff faces

Answer 25

• Reducing congestion

- Reducing poverty and deprivation in Butetown