Urban Challenges Y Opportunities

Question 1

Educación in Lagos

Answer 1

28% more children in educación
1000 primary schools
800 secondary schools
11 major universities

Question 2

Employment in Lagos

Answer 2

4500 shell jobs
3000 Nestlé jobs
30% of Nigerian economy

Question 3

Quality of Life in Lagos

Answer 3

Life expectancy +9 higher than rural
99% of people connected to the grid
160 hospitals
40% have access to water

Question 4

Environmental Challenges in Lagos

Answer 4

13 million Kg of waste daily
Air pollution 5x the limit
300,000 deaths/year from poor water
Lots of traffic/congestion

Question 5

Employment Challenges in Lagos

Answer 5

Most students drop out at 14
Unemployment at 19%
Self policing from gangs
1.7 million live in poverty

Question 6

Challenges in Makoko

Answer 6

50% has no sewage system
7% have legal right to their land
Illegal electricity tapping
6,900 people per Km²

Question 7

Improvement strategies in Makoko

Answer 7

World Bank
Floating school
Eko-atlantic live & work project

Question 8

Opportunities in Birmingham

Answer 8

University is a Russell group + Dubai
Airport has long-haul flights (china)
Bullring is 3rd best in UK
90% of uk is within 4 hrs + HS2

Question 9

Culture in Birmingham

Answer 9

Pakistani fusion food
Irish pubs
Caribbean population in Aston/H.orth
Benjamin Zephania

Question 10

Challenges in Birmingham
(Avoiding bankruptcy)

Answer 10

Housing inequality - need +90,000
Dereliction and brownfield sites
6.3% unemployment (nat. Avg=4.2%)
Only 30% of waste recycled

Question 11

Makoko floating school

Answer 11

Holds 60 children
Collects water
Used for community meetings
(Destroyed in 2016)

Question 12

World Bank In Lagos

Answer 12

$200 million in funding
Better quality buildings (95,000)
(Lagos severely in debt)

Question 13

Eko-Atlantic live & work project

Answer 13

Accommodates 250,000 people
New international school
Better hygiene due to sewage system
(High rent unaffordable for locals)

Question 14

Opportunities - The bullring

Answer 14

160 shops and 40 restaurants
4,000 jobs
3,000 car parking spaces
Investment multiplier effect

Question 15

Opportunities - Birmingham Library

Answer 15

Study space for students
Green space & Cafe
Offers job-seeking help
Public access to the internet

Question 16

Opportunities- Brindley place

Answer 16

10,000 jobs
4 million visitors annually
Re-designed brownfield site

Question 17

Opportunities- tourism in Jamaica

Answer 17

Water treatment plant reduces hotel pollution
200,000 jobs in hotels/transport
$2bn in taxes annually
Nationally park sustains environment

Question 18

Challenges- tourism in Jamaica

Answer 18

More traffic isolates part of the island
1.1 million tourists spend $50 less
Path erosion and harmful emissions increase

Question 19

Uk in the wider world - trade

Answer 19

International TNCs (shell, Barclay’s,…)
40 airports allows for lots of trade
Commonwealth trade routes
Brexit worsened relations with EU

Question 20

UK in the wider world - E-comms

Answer 20

15,000Km of cables from London to Tokyo
90% of UK connected to fast internet
UK uses TV as a media export

Question 21

UK in the wider world - transport

Answer 21

Channel tunnel and HS1
40 airports (renovations to B’ham)
Many transport networks

Question 22

B’ham international airport

Answer 22

2 million tonnes of freight
£500m expansion
40% ^ departure lounge
11 more stands (more planes)

Question 23

M6 motorway

Answer 23

Reduce congestion
Noise barriers
Toll road
Hard shoulder as 4th lane

Question 24

Grand central

Answer 24

Train every 37 seconds
More routes + HS2
170,000 daily uses
1000 employees