Urban Futures

Question 1

Dharavi Locational

Answer 1

Dharavi is located in the centre of Mumbai. Mumbai is a narrow peninsula located on the western coast of India, which borders the Arabian Sea

Question 2

Opportunities of Dharavi, Mumbai

Answer 2

• Accounts for 6% of India’s GDP and 25% of India’s industrial production
• Runs more than 1000 schools free of charge and has a literacy rate of 89.7%, even in slums the literacy rate is 69%

Question 3

Challenges of Mumbai

Answer 3

-Doctors deal with 4000 cases a day of diseases caused by a lack of sanitation, with 500 people sharing one public toilet
- They earn £1 a day for their work, while working in terrible conditions

Question 4

Way of Life - Vision Mumbai

Answer 4

• Two aims were to restore 325 green spaces that were polluted and build 300 extra public toilets
• By 2007, 200,000 people were moved from slums into flats
• By 2015, 72 new trains were introduced on Mumbai’s railways
• Rent costs more than it did in the slum, and since they only earn £1 a day, this is not ideal

Question 5

Birmingham Locational

Answer 5

Birmingham is located in the West Midlands of England, approximately 100miles from London and has a population of 1.1million

Question 6

Opportunities of Birmingham

Answer 6

• Bullring shopping centre includes 140 shops, and high generate roughly 1000 jobs
• 5 Universities for over 65,000 students

Question 7

Challenges of Birmingham

Answer 7

• Atmospheric pollution is caused due to lots of Cars and a population of 1.1million
• Inequality in housing

Question 8

Ways of Life Birmingham Bullring

Answer 8

• Annual revenue of £4.1billion to the local economy
• In 2018, the Bullring recycled 82% of waste, the rest was used for energy generation and nothing was sent to landfill
• Created 5500 jobs, 50% of workers are local
• Still needs to harness energy consumption, and they are working with multiple tech companies to try solve this

Question 9

Location & Importance & Migration and growth

Answer 9

Media
- UK creative industries are worth £63billion a year and employ 1.5million people
- London design festival was created in 2003 and has 80cities globally have their own version
- worldwide films and games such as Harry Potter and Downtown Abbey (global audience of 120million people)

Food
- 25% of Uk takeaways are Chinese, 23% are Indian
- Average person spends £110 per month of takeaway meals
- every town has at least one Chinese restaurant and often have a China town

Question 10

Birmingham Library Locational

Answer 10

Opened in 2013 costing £188 million
Largest public library in the UK
In 2014 it had 2.4million visitors

Question 11

Birmingham library Sustainable

Answer 11

• Built on a brownfield site, and so reused unused urban land and prevented the loss of biodiverse greenfield site
• Low Carbon use technology for heating and cooling, low energy lighting, water conservation systems
• 95% of all construction materials were recycled and the library recycled all used materials such as paper and plastic in recycling bins