Retailing, Global Cities, Global Cities Connections, Mumbai & Cardiff Flashcards
(25 cards)
What do the letters CBD stand for?
Central Business District
What are the 5 economic factors have changed retailing?
- Home delivery firms
- Congestion in cities
- Free parking at out of town retail parks
- High parking costs in city centres
- Monthly wages.
What 2 cultural factors have changed retailing?
- Car-dependent society
- Bulk buying
What 4 technological factors have changed retailing?
- High broadband speeds
- Sophisticated websites
- Online-only retailers
- Internet Banking.
What are 4 benefits of out of town shopping centres?
- Large free car parking
- near major road junctions
- room for expansion
- cheaper land values
- near suburban housing estates.
What are 4 costs of out of town shopping centres?
- Attracts shoppers away from CBD
- Cause congestion on surrounding roads
- Chain stores
- Land use conflict with other developments such as business parks.
What are 4 benefits of internet shopping?
- Convenient and cheaper
- Purchase products you can’t buy locally
- less time consuming
- reduction in traffic congestion
- delivery jobs.
What are the costs of internet shopping?
- 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.
Give ways that Lancaster CBD fought back
- New paving in pedestrianised areas
- new street furniture
- Signage (Wayfinding)
- Market day on Wednesday
- Secure bike racks
- Trees planted.
What does the word urbanisation mean?
The growth of towns and cities
How many residents does a city need to have before it is called a ‘megacity’?
10 million
Many of the worlds fastest-growing cities are expected to be in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. T/F?
True
What does the word globalisation mean?
- The global web of links between countries involving people
- trade
- ideas and culture
What are global cities?
Cities that play an important role in the global economic system of finance and trade.
What some features do global cities have?
- Finance & Trade
- Governance and decision making
- Media and information (Ideas, Information, innovation)
- Migration Cultural centres (Diversity)
- Transport hubs
What are the push and pull factors that have caused rural to urban migration in Mumbai your NIC city example?
Push - Countryside areas are poor, lack healthcare, limited job opportunities, poor sanitation
Pull - Job opportunities, Cheap rail travel, More educational opportunities.
What connections does Mumbai have to the rest of the world?
- Mumbai international airport
- Tata Steel
- Bollywood
What types of jobs do the people that live in extreme poverty in Mumbai do?
Informal jobs
What is the name of Mumbai’s biggest slum?
Dharavi
Give 2 urban challenges Mumbai faces
- Reducing poverty and deprivation
- Housing (Chawls, Squatter Homes-Slums, Pavement Dwellers.)
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.
- International airport
- The Principality Stadium (Millennium Stadium)
- Admiral a Multinational Company
- BBC TV Programmes such as Dr Who.
Cardiff has a large Somali community. T/F?
True
Cardiff does not have a congestion problem. T/F
False
Cardiff has many commuters from the surrounding areas. T/F?
True
