Challenges Of An Urbanising World Flashcards
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Define urbanisation
A rise in the percentage of people living in urban areas compared to rural
Define megacity
Urban areas with a population of more than 10 million people
Name 5 causes of urbanisation
Better jobs and services, steady monthly income, escaping natural disasters, escaping extreme weather conditions which destroy crops, necessities like water are difficult to find in rural areas
Describe Detroit’s decline
It once had a population of 1.85 million which decreased to 700,000 due to the decline of its car industry
Define counter urbanisation
The movement of people out of cities into rural areas
Define slum
An urban settlement where over 50% of people lack basic amenities such as toilets, electricity and running water
Define regeneration
Run down areas of the city are regenerated in order to encourage people to move back
Define suburbanisation
Wealthy city dwellers choose to live on the edge of the city to about crime and pollution
Define urban sprawl
The urban area physically grows outward onto surrounding rural land in an uncontrolled way
Define hyper urbanisation
When the increase in urban population is happening so rapidly the city cannot cope with the needs of the people
Describe the structure of the city
Central business district, inner city, inner suburbs, outer suburbs
Where is Mumbai located?
In India in Asia on the west coast in Maharashtra state. It is a peninsula
Give 3 facts about migration into Mumbai
1000 migrants arrive in the city per day, Mumbai is expected to be home to more than 26million people by 2025, between 2001 and 2011 1.7million migrants
Define site
The land where the settlement is
Give 3 facts about Mumbai’s site
Much of the city is low lying just above sea level, naturally deep harbour accessible by large ships, lies on an island by the deep water estuary of the Ulhas river
Define situation
The position of a settlement in relation to other features
Give 3 facts about Mumbai’s situation
Faces towards important regional markets in the Middle East and international markets in Europe, lies 19 degrees north of the equator,close to Europe via the Suez Canal
Define connectivity
How well a place is connected to other places by transport, internet or trade for example
Give 4 facts about Mumbai’s connectivity
Connected to the rest of India through an extensive road and railway network, waterfront is 10km long allowing huge port (India’s second largest), shipping times are 5 days shorter than from Kolkata on the East coast, Mumbai is 9 hours from UK airports
Give 2 points about Mumbai’s urban rural fringe
Hard to locate as the area has sprawled into nearby towns, rural areas only found where land is not suitable for building e.g the river estuary land and the large area of National Park in the hills to the north of Mumbai
Give 2 points about Mumbai’s first surburbs
Chawls (poor quality housing) developed to house workers in the old textile mill area in 1900s-1930s, home to Mumbai’s largest slum dharavi
Give 5 points about Mumbai’s CBD
Centred on the old banking sector of the city, important companies have headquarters here such as Bank of India and Bank of America, expensive housing on the waterfront, port area is economically very active, up to 25000 people work here and live in slums nearby
Give 2 points about Mumbai’s second suburbs
Navi Mumbai built to reduce congestion on the peninsula and it developed along railway lines post 1970s allowing commuters to travel into the city each day, new industrial sectors developed here
How has natural increase caused growth?
It is 1.4% per year, a lot of young migrants move and start families