Settlement geo Flashcards

Question

Challenges in Lagos.

Answer 1

Slums, -only 10% have access to water in home, - 40% work in the informal sector doing dangerous jobs. -GDP per capita $4,333, -19% unemployed, -only 7% of legal rights to land, - malaria and low life expectancy.

Answer 2

-The authorities have provided basic materials to improve peoples homes with safe electricity and sewage pipes. -Government has demolished houses and created new estates. -Community policing has been established, along with a tougher stance on gangs with military backed police. -Greater investment in new road and rail network to reduce pollution and increase connections between rich and poor areas.

Answer 3

-Installation of a cable car to the comerical centre of -Ipanema - inhabitants are given one free return ticket a day. -Access to credit to allow inhabitants to buy materials to improve their home. -100% mortgages available for people to buy their homes. -A Pacifying Police Unit (PPU) set up, with police patrolling the community.

Answer 4

*Paved roads *Access to water supply and drainage system for improved sanitation. *Hillsides secured to prevent landslides. *Building of new health, leisure and education facilities

Answer 5

-Due to the Olympic development. - Slum dwellers evicted off the land and relocated in communities on the outskirts of town. -Lost community spirit, long way to travel into work.

Answer 6

-Insecurity ( bandits & Boko Haram), -Climate change & more frequent droughts, - poor services, -poverty, -mechanisation ( lack of farming jobs).

Answer 7

-Families split apart, -children need to work on the farm, as one parent has left. -Old people left behind, who can't do the physical labour.

Answer 8

-Microfinance(small loans to businesses + individuals), -FAO educating farmers on how to farm more sustainably. -WB supporting people in the NE to become more resilient, investing in infrastructure.

Answer 9

2.Goods or services that are bought infrequently and are expensive. 1.Settlements, usually towns or cities, which provide goods and services that are bought infrequently and that are expensive so people are willing to travel a long way to buy or use them.

Answer 10

1.Goods and services that are bought frequently and which are usually cheap. 2.Settlements, usually villages and hamlets, that provide goods and services that are bought frequently and are cheap so people are only willing to travel a short distance to buy or use them.

Answer 11

1.The distance people are prepared to travel to buy a good or service e.g. low order goods and services have a small range; high order goods and services have a large range. 2. The area surrounding an activity that is influenced by it e.g. sports centre or a local park. It is also called the catchment area. 3. The function of a settlement is its main economic activity or purpose e.g. Market town, Port, Industrial Town, Tourist Resort 4. The minimum number of people needed before a particular good or service can be provided in an area.

Answer 12

1.the physical characteristics of the area. 2. Any form of permanent place of residence 3. The situation of a settlement describes the location of the settlement in relation to other neighbouring settlements and transport routes.

Answer 13

1.Settlements are made up of a cluster of buildings, usually around a central point, such as a crossroads or bridge over a river. Many have developed in lowland areas where land is fertile. 2.Settlements are long and thin ( ribbon shaped). These develop along a road or river valley or in an area where flat land is limited. 3. Farms and isolated buildings that are scattered across the countryside and surrounded by farmland. often found in upland areas.

Answer 14

1. often in the lower parts of valleys - often on warmer, south facing slopes (aspect). 2. near to a reliable source of water - beside a river, stream. 3.Normally slightly raised to avoid flooding.

Answer 15

1.Is a shallow area along a river where bridges can be built. 2.A place at which things, such as transportation routes, converge.

Answer 16

1. A plot of land, often in a rural or on the edge of an urban area that has not yet been subject to any building development. 2.Land that has been used, abandoned and now awaits some new use. Commonly found across urban areas, particularly in the inner city.

Answer 17

1.The main commerical and shopping area of a town or city. 2.Where the urban area meets the rural countryside at the edge of a town or city. 3.areas to which governments try to attract private business investment by offering lower taxes and other government support 4. An area of makeshift housing that usually develops on unfavourable sites in and around an MIC or LIC city; they are also known as favelas, shanty towns or bustees. 5. the older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which usually low-income groups live. 6. Areas of land surrounding a city where any new housing or industrial development is forbidden or is severaly restricted to protect green land around the city.

Answer 18

1.This is where the government provide building materials and the local residents provide the labour to build the houses. 2.Local government provides land and build new roads with electricity and water connections. Local residents are given or sold plots of land that they can build their houses on. 3. provision of small loans and other financial services to individuals and small businesses in developing countries. 4. Poor quality housing with some basic services 5.Housing areas that often lack basic services, such as running water;sewage and electricity; the residents have no legal right to the land on which they live.

Answer 19

1. The process by which an increasing proportion of people live in towns and cities instead of the coutryside - this could be a result of natural increase or migration. -Lagos 2. Rural depopulation is usually when numbers of working age people migrate from the countryside to earn more money in the city. They leave behind the old and the young. -Lagos 3.Suburbanization is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of urban sprawl -Brussels 4.Rural depopulation is usually when numbers of working age people migrate from the countryside to earn more money in the city. They leave behind the old and the young. -Lagos 5.When large numbers of people move from urban areas into surrounding countryside or rural areas. -Brussels 6.The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land. 7.The revival of old parts of the built‐up area by either installing modern facilities in old buildings (known as renewal) or opting for redevelopment (ie demolishing existing buildings and starting afresh).-Molenbeek 8. A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.-Molenbeek

Answer 20

1. a way of arranging settlements into a rank order based upon their population or some other criteria. 2.Settlements can be ranked according to the type of services they provide, such as health care or education. 3.an extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities.

Answer 21

1.Cities with a population of over 10 million 2. a region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together

Answer 22

1. a chart explaining land costs getting cheaper as you move away from the CBD 2. phrase "not in my back yard". Opposition by residents to proposed developments in their local area, 3. A residential area within relatively easy reach of (and often surrounding) a city, where many of the residents travel to and from the city daily. 4. People who live in these settlements, do not work in them as they travel to work in the cities and towns.

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