Isk Flashcards
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Slums
Loving space
Jobs
Salary
1 million people per metre squared
500 people per toilet
Litter Pickers,Recyclers,Street Vendors
1 dollar a day
Lower Middle Class
Loving space
Jobs
Salary
Small apartments 1bhkn 4 people per flat Teacher shop sales people drivers £750 monthly
Upper Middle Class
Loving space
Jobs
Salary
Luxury apartments with security
£320,000 worth per flat
Doctors lawyers long hours
£16,000 annually
Hyper Urbanisation & link to Mumbai
The rapid growth of city areas
3% a year so will double every 23 years, new areas such a as Nabi Mumbai are taken in ?
How has the slum population changed compare proportionately to upper middle class
In 1971 there was 6000 and 11,000,000 in 2011
Slum is proportionately increasing more than upper middle class
Rural Urban Migration definition and why
People move from rural areas to urban areas for better facilities and jobs
Why does Natural Increase play a large role in the growth of Mumbai’s population ?
1.4% growth every year due to natural increase (more births than deaths from Mumbai residents)
One of the challenges facing Mumbai is tax
Very few tax workers so impossible to collect form informal workers
Tax free zones for BT and Amazon so not enough taxes leading to infrastructure collapse
Sustainable development definition and three ways to adhere to it
Improving of the quality of life without compromising the future generations
Recycle and reuse
Energy efficient devices
Public transport or walking
What is vision Mumbai
A top down development scheme funded by the American firm McKinsey and govt, USD 40 billion
Started in 20p3 aimed completion for 2050
Tying to sustainably develop Mumbai
Main aims of vision Mumbai
Demolish the slums so there is 30% morn,and for offices and build shopping centres that will create business for slum dwellers
Improving healthcare and sanitation through 300 extra toilets (public) and the restoration of 325 green spaces that now hold polluted water
Improving transport by improving safety and beautification of roads
Boost economic growth as developers would buy slums for discount price
For vision Mumbai plus social environmental and economic
In 2007,200,000 people were moved from Dharavi social
In 2015 new measures were undertaken to improve air quality environmental
Platform ps have been raised to prevent people from falling into gaps social
Against vision mumbai
Beaches are still unsafe for recreation environmental
Rent costs more than slum dwellers earn economical
Slums are still growing rapidly social
Name of bottom down development for challenges of an urbanising world and description
Look seva sangam is a medical clinic that specifically targets leprosy and now TB. It refuses the isolation of patients and only targets one specific community within Dharavi
Look Seva Sangam health related
75% of people with leprosy are cured
LSS has been employed full time including 3 nurses to do house visits
Assurance of easy treatment and check up on patients
Lok Seva Sangam Education
5 teachers to survey and detect cases of disease
Alls work with wine. To provide menstrual education
Community lok Seva sangam
Talk about disease and personal care
DVDs played in the community group
On,y focuses on the slum communtiy
Explain the causes of different land use
Commercial land use are more likely to exist in accessible areas
If the cost of land is very high then businesses are more likely to exist there
The govt may reserve land for industries near ports far away from residential areas
Urbanisation
The process where an increasing amount of the population live in towns or cities
By 2050 the largest cities will exist in
Asia as there are more developing countries
Characteristics of towns and cities
2500-20,000 peop,e in towns
Over 20,000 in cities
Million city is
At least 1 million people
Mega city is
Over 10 million people
World city is
Major centre for cultural economic and political reasons not dependent on size
