3.4a/b - Mumbai’s location and its Urban Structures Flashcards
How many people live in Mumbai?
25 million
How is it connected to the world? (3)
- It has a deep water harbour that makes it the second largest in India
- It is located on the west coast of India and can trade with Europe through the Suez Canal
- It is 9 hours from the UK by plane (32 million passengers in 2014)
Where is Mumbai situated?
- On the west coast of India
- 19 degrees north of the equator (tropical climate)
What is the structure of Mumbai like?
-It’s CBD is situated near the harbour, near the island tip
but surrounding the harbour is the following strips of development (like a semi circle)
-High quality housing
-Poor quality permanent housing
-Shanty housing (slums)
What are the residential areas like for different groups of people?
- Wealthy suburbs surround the CBD
- Middle income people live in older parts of the cities
- Low income people live in 1 bedroom flats called ‘Chawls’
- The poorest 60% live in slums
- Several thousands on the streets
What are some of the site problems and how were they resolved?
By the second Half of the 20th century - Mumbai was very overcrowded - with Insanitary, unsafe conditions
In 1970 a proposal was made to develop a new suburb on the mainland called Navi Mumbai - many people moved there because land was cheaper
What is the Sanjay Gandhi National Park?
The worlds largest park inside a city - 100 km^2 of forest
How many visitors does the National Park attract / yr?
nearly 2 million
What do residents of Mumbai call the National Park and why?
the ‘lungs of Mumbai’, because they believe it helps reduce air pollution in this highly congested megacity
What was the old textile mill redeveloped with?
New housing that is expensive - also shopping malls
What are the inner suburbs like?
Characterised by squatter and slum settlements - including Mumbai’s largest: Dharavi
What are the outer suburbs like?
Developed along Mumbai’s railway lines. Railways allowed commuters to travel into the city every day, including from New Mumbai via the Harbour Line.
New Mumbai - planned as a low density suburb with better quality of life, but many industries located there due to cheap land
Where is the urban-rural fringe?
Hard to locate because it is spread into such a vast conurbation - merges into other towns on mainland with a population of 22 million people
Rural areas generally found where environmental factors around Mumbai mean land is not suitable for building e.g. hills to north of Mumbai with Sanjay Gandhi National Park
