Urban World Flashcards
(19 cards)
Urbanisation
Growth and percentage of people living in cities
What is rural to urban migration
Moving from country side to city
Why are population in cities increasing
Natural increase
Better jobs
Better education
Better health care
Where is Lagos
Continent Africa
Country Lagos
Why is Lagos important
Eco Atlantic employ 150 thousand
30% Nigerias gdp
trade/ports
Opportunity in Lagos
12 universities
40% people employed in informal jobs (doesn’t pay tax)
Challenges in Lagos
Mokoko floating slum
80% deforestation to make way factories and houses
Pollution from factortu
20%/4 million out of 20 million unemployed
crime
Not many police cause not much tax
Improving quality of life of poor people
Mokoko floating school educated 100 kids
Sustainable
Collected rain water
Solar panels
Storm knocked it down in 2016
UK case study
Sunderland
Nissan employ 6000
National migration
Move within country
Irish people potato
Scotland
International migration
People within eu for jobs no one will take and factories
China for university’s and education because they pay more
Sunderland challenges
Pollution
Rubbish
Abandoned buildings
unhealthy lifestyles
Sunderland opportunities
Environmentally
Farringdon car park greenery
Dame Dorothy street cylcle path
Nissan
Crown works film studios
Regenerated seafront
Sunderland regeneration
Making city better
Riverside master plan
Building 10,000 homes mix of rent and buy affordable
10,000 sq foot of office space
Farringdon green car park
Urban sprawl
City getting bigger cutting into country side
Water conservation
2 toilet flush
Solar panels and wind turbines at Nissan
10 wind turbines at Nissan
Greenspace Farringdon car park
Waste management
Pallion recycling
Traffic management
Bus lanes
High street west pedestrian side
Electric busses
Public transport
Network one travel pass
