Geo urban environments Flashcards
How many % of people live in megacities
8%
how many people lived in (%) urban in 2021
56.6%
How many % of Indian cities are unplanned
65%
rural and urban settlement
dwelling that provides housing for farm workers. urban when rural settelment starts to have services for payment shops etc
difference between site and situation settlement
site: land where built (slope of the mountain) situ: relationship with its surounding area
Distance-decay
as you move further away distance between services increases
Urbanization vs urban growth
Proportion of people in urban area, rural-urban migration. Number of people in urban area and expansion of it; rual-urban+natural increase
international povertyy line threshold
2.15 dollars per day
international poverty line threshold of Lithuania
18 eur per day
international poverty line threshold of Kenya
0.98 eur per day
international poverty line threshold of USA
40 dollars per day
slums
A group of individuals living under the same roof in urban area and lack of at least one basic amenities
Squatters
People who don’t own land and have no legal right and build there houses. substandard living conditions
how many slum dwellers were in 2015?
980 mln or 32% of world’s urban population
how many % of Africa’s, S. America’s, Asia’s live in shanty settlements?
60% 30% 20%
What % of shenzhen population lives in urban villages
80%
picture steep hillside porr
Rio de Janeiro, Rio favela
picture near water in Lagos
Makoko slums
How many people % live in slums u=in Uganda
93%
how many % of urban growth in China is affected by reclasiffication; urban-rural migration?
80%
