Case Study- Kolkata And TQ

Question 1

How much of the worlds urban population live in slums

Answer 1

32%

Question 2

What are slums

Answer 2

Residential houses known as shanty houses usually in LEDCs

Has no electricity or lighting most of the time

Question 3

Where are shanty towns located

Answer 3

Near roads, railways 🚃, canals or anywhere which is too dangerous to build on

Question 4

What are three areas of shanty towns in Kolkata

Answer 4

Center of city, poor houses dating back 150 years ago stayed as city urbanised

Along and around factories and roads etc. happened 60 years ago

Modern shanty towns along roads, unoccupied land and railways

Question 5

What fraction of Kolkata’s population live in shanty towns
How many people is it thought to live in Kolkata
What did the Indian Government say about shanty towns

Answer 5

1/3
12.3 million
“Unfit for human habitation”

Question 6

What are registered shanty towns
How many are there out of all the shanty towns in 2001
What are they like

Answer 6

Called bustees
2011 are registered out of 5500 shanty towns
Highest quality of all shanty towns but still very cramped together

Question 7

Unregistered shanty towns have…

Answer 7

No legal rights to occupy that land

Are very poor

Question 8

Over … of shanty towns inhabitants have lived there for more than … generations

Answer 8

40%

Two

Question 9

Give some facts and figures on shanty towns

Answer 9

Most people work in informal sector
Has a family of 5/6 people
Earns 500-1700 rupees per month (£7-£24)
75% of Kolkata’s population lives under the poverty line
In the average slum in India the growth from 1981-1991 was 21% while in Kolkata it was 32%

Question 10

What is an organisation that tries to help slums
Was it successful
What are draw backs

Answer 10

EIUS 
environment improvement urban sector 
1978 
Has partially helped 
As increasing population more slums are being built

Question 11

What is sustainability

Answer 11

Meeting the needs for future generations

Question 12

What was the river used for in the past what is it now

Answer 12

Wealth, port, trade, industry

Derelict and polluted

Question 13

What are the plan for the 75 hectare pastry of the inner city (5)

Answer 13

To provide schools, offices, apartments, businesses, leisure facilities, hotels, restaurants and bars etc.

Question 14

How many apartments are planned to be built
How much land is set aside for other land uses
How much will it cost
What are the hopes for the inner city area

Answer 14

7500
900,000m2
£5 billion
To become a major social and business part of Belfast

Question 15

What are five ways TQ can become more sustainable

Answer 15

Regeneration 
Accessibility and transport 
Environmental protection  
Global warming and climate change 
Biodiversity

Question 16

How is regeneration sustainability achieved (2)

Answer 16

The building on brown field sites (old factories), reducing the pressure on green field sites
Also if people live in TQ this reduces the need of transport therefore decreasing congestion, noise, etc. levels

Question 17

How is accessibility and transportation sustainability achieved (3)

Answer 17

Since TQ is close to the CBD= accessible to many transport methods
Fast, light transport methods are able to be introduced in the future
Pedestrian 🚶 walkways ans cycle paths as well

Question 18

How is environmental sustainability achieved (1)

Answer 18

The area was contaminated as the result of the industry in the past so the plans are to recycle ♻️ were possible meaning there so less need of fresh materials

Question 19

How is energy and climate change sustainability achieved (1)

Answer 19

All the buildings when constructed, reduced CO2 emissions by designing, sitting and using the conservation of energy effectively

Question 20

How is biodiversity sustainability achieved (2)

Answer 20

Near coast, Belfast Lough

Aim to create and support biodiversity by creating landscape areas and habitats

Question 21

What was another way sustainability was achieved by regeneration

Answer 21

The regeneration of the Newtownards Road 2012 project, the regeneration of one of the busiest roads that leads into Belfast, strengthening the bond between east Belfast and TQ

Question 22

How is TQ sustainable with jobs

Answer 22

15,000 jobs in construction

20,000 jobs after TQ has been built