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The Challenge of an Urban World
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- 1UrbanisationAn increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas
- 2IndustrialisationWhen secondary industry starts to develop in a place
- 3UrbanA built up area such as a town or city
- 4RuralArea where countryside dominates
- 5MegacityCity with 10 million or more residents
- 6HubAn area where lots of important businesses are located, making it important in a country's money making potential
- 7Migration (rural to urban)Movement from countryside to a built up area
- 8Natural increaseThe way a cities population grows as a result of people having children
- 93 factors that cause urbanisation in an MEDC-Late 18th and 19th centuries (industrial revolution)
-Industrialisation attracting millions of workers to the new factories and cities
-(See Clark Fisher model) - 106 factors that cause urbanisation in an LEDCRapid pop growth, land ownership issues, modernised agriculture (lack of jobs=migration), commercial agriculture (families displaced=migration), decline of traditional village jobs, flooding (crops destroyed=migration)
- 11How is urbanisation different in MEDCs and LEDCs?MEDCs re-urbanise due to better housing and cities but LEDCs urbanise due to desperately trying to find work and a better life
- 12Name 4 fast growing citiesLagos (Nigeria), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Bombay/Mumbai (India) and Tokyo (Japan)
- 13Name 2 slow growing citiesNew York (U.S.A) and London (England)
- 14Millionaire citiesCities with over 1 million inhabitants
- 15MegacitiesCities with over 10 million inhabitants
- 16World citiesCities which have a major impact on world events. Often major financial/media centres
- 172 bad things about megacitiesLosing culture and overcrowded
- 18What is the population and area of Shanghai?23 million and 6300km2
- 19What is the population and area of Mumbai?21 million and 4300km2
- 20What is the population and area of Lagos?10 million and 1000km2
- 21What is the population and area of Sao Paulo?20 million and 8000km2
- 22What is the population and area of Los Angeles?13 million and 12500km2
- 23Name two contrasting megacitiesMumbai and L.A
- 24Difference in populationMumbai - 21 million and L.A - 13 million
- 25Difference in population growth a yearMumbai - 2.9% and L.A - 1.1%
- 26Percentage of Mumbai's pop that are living in poverty60%
- 27Name some jobs in informal economy (where most of Mumbai's population works)Services (banking), manufacturing (textiles), construction and entertainment (Bollywood)
- 28Where do most of L.As pop work and give 3 examplesMostly formal: trade (ports), entertainment (Hollywood) and aerospace
- 29Informal economyJobs that have little/no job security with no tax paid (e.g. street trading)
- 30Formal economyRefers to jobs with contracts of employment and more job security and tax is paid
- 31What are the five rings of the Burgess Model used to track the spatial growth of an MEDC megacity?CBD, inner city, inner suburbs, outer suburbs and the rural/urban fringe
- 32What are the 2 similarities between the two models for MDC and LDC?CBD is in the middle and cheaper housing is near the centre
- 33What are the 2 differences?Poor people live round the edge in an LEDC, rich people live round edge in MEDC and LDC has more wedges and segregation
- 34Ecological footprint of a countryThe land and natural resources required to provide the raw materials on which the country along with its population feeds and the waste products it produces
- 35SourceNatural environement
- 36What do we use the environment as well as a source?A sink
- 37What do these sources and sinks represent?The amount of land, water and air (biproductive areas) needed to support our lifestyles
- 38What measurement is this expressed in?Global hectares (GHA)
- 39Carbon footprintMeasure of the carbon emissions included in our eco-footprints
- 405 facts about London's waste produced5.9 tonnes of CO2 per person produced...20 million tonnes of waste a year...organic waste is released into rivers...49% waste sent to landfill...32% of waste in recycle (used to be 8%)
- 412 facts about London's food consumption81% comes from outside U.K and they eat 6.9 tonnes a year (8 billion meals)
- 423 facts about London's energy consumptionTotal energy use has stayed constant since 2000, all energy is imported and they use 13.2 million tonnes of oil a year
- 43How much of London's energy use is renewable, gas, liquids and electricity?<1% renewable, 55% gas, 23% liquids and 21% electricity
- 442 facts about London's transport41% of journeys are public and 64 billion passenger kilometres are travelled each year
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