Global cities

Question 1

Causes of urbanisation

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Push factors from rural areas

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Global city

Answer 3

Well connected by process of urbanisation

Question 4

Urbanisation

Answer 4

Physical and human growth of towns and cities

Question 5

Alpha++ cities

Answer 5

London and New York

Question 6

Features of global cities

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Factors that drive Globalisation

Answer 7

-MNCs
-Culture
-Trade
-Migration
-Techonology

Question 8

Mega cities

Answer 8

Cities with a population of 10 million plus people

Question 9

What is Mumbai

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Reasons for growth in Mumbai

Answer 10

-Rural urban migration
-Women
-Joining families
-Education

Question 11

Urban Pull factors

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Pull factors of Mumbai

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Issues in Dharavi

Answer 13

-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

Question 14

Ways of improving rail safety in Mumbai

Answer 14

Barries, voice annoucners

Question 15

Positives of Dharavi

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Negatives of Dharavi

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Aims of vision Mumbai

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Advantages of top down development

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Disadvantages of top down development

Answer 19

-Expensive
-Changes may be unwanted to an are

Question 20

Micro credit

Answer 20

Low interest repayment

Question 21

Plans in Mumbai to help transport

Answer 21

Metreosystem elavated highway, 160 energy efficient trains

Question 22

Plans in Mumbai to help housing

Answer 22

20 000 slum dwellers moved inyo new apartments

Question 23

Plans in Mumbai yo help enviroment

Answer 23

305 new open spaces, 300 public toulets

Question 24

Plains in Mumbai to help employoment

Answer 24

20 000 service sector jobs

Question 25

Dharavi project

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Reasons for migration to london

Answer 26

-Wind rush
-Baby boom after war

Question 27

London pull factors

Answer 27

-Jobs
-Housing
-Better acess to services
-Diversity

Question 28

Effects of traffic

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Stats for Pollution in london

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Stats for poverty

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Cycle of deprevation

Answer 31

-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