Geoorgraohy (urbanastion ) Flashcards
What is urbanisation
Towns and cities are growing
2 push factors why people leave country side
Natural disasters
Mechanisation (use of machines to farm land)
Pull factors why u want to go to cities
Healthcare
Education
More jobs
How many mega cities was there in 1975 and what were they
4 and they were Tokyo ,New York ,Mexico city and Sao Paolo
How many mega city’s are today
31
What do u call when people don’t want to move to a city when there less noise and crime and bigger houses
Counter urbanisation
Which LIC has urban growth
Lagos
How many people mover to Lagos per minute
86
How many times is Lagos more crowded than London
4 times more
Sanitation is poor communal toilets is shared by how many houses
15
What is the percent of water In Lagos that is treated and pumped to houses
10 percent
What’s I the percentage of that people in Lagos live less 2 pound per day
46 percent
Lagos health care is poor how many people in Lagos gets malaria per year
1.2 million
How many people in Lagos are unemployed
26 percent
Lagos is very congested cities in the world what’s the average traffic time
3 hours
How many deaths happen because of bad pollution
11 thousand deaths
Name a lic that’s is urban planning
Makoko
What’s Is Makoko doing to teach people how to build houses and and make the whole area sustainable
They use floating school
How do they reduce the cost of using energy
Use solar panels
How do they provide jobs in Makoko
They do markets which is made by local material by local workers
What city is having urban challenges
Nottingham
Economics opportunities
Lace markets
Tertiary job (85 percent of nottigham economy
What are the social opportunities of nottigham
They 2 universities that’s are ranked 14 in the uk
Increase in quaternary jobs
What’s are the social challenges in nottigham
8 most deprived country
In 2010 there was an average 3 rough sleepers per night and now there is 53 in 2023
Environment challenges
Urban sprawl ( more houses build in the country side ) reduces biodiversity
Rural urban fringers they have lot of agricultural and greenfield like staple ford which constructs 450 homes Whig led to mice invasion
Uk regeneration is happening to what city
Nottingham
What market employees thousands of jobs
Lace market
When did the last factory shut down
1950
What did they do with house shortages
Renovated into middle class flats and today is the most expensive and more sought areas to live
How did they attract tourism
Museums such as galleries of justice which opened in 1986
What are did they open to attract tourists
Ice arena in 2000
What a environmental drawback if making new building and increase tourism
Housing is too expensive
More tourism more people coming to Nottingham increase traffic congestion
Which city is uk sustainability
Hockerton
Why do they need to be sustainable
Because of there ecological footprint
What’s a way of being more sustainable
Urban greening which is making more green spaces so they can make roof and gardens and increase biodiversity
Where is hockerton
Is a village between Newark and Mansfield
Why do they do to make renewable energy
Windmills
Solar panels two each
How does reneable energy helps to be sustainable
Reduces fossil fuels and give out bad pollution
How do they get high quality water
Rainwater haversting to collect water
1cm of rain water provide 5 weeks of water
How do they maintain the land
Vegetable patches , chickens and sheep
How many unpaid hours in a home a year needs to manage and maintain the side
300 unpaid
What’s the scheme called to improve transport in Nottingham
The big wheel
What is the big wheel
Make transport Better and cheaper
Positive of a tram
It employs 290 local people
19 million people use the tram (35 percent higher than the previous year
Negative of a tram
570 million to pay for a tram system
Traffic congestion which makes nottigham play 664 million a year
Cycling positive s
The city card cycle hire cost 2 pound for a day cheaper than other forms of transport
Cycling negatives
On average only one person a day was hiring a bike when the city card bikes were first implemented, though this has increased
E scooters positives
E scooters are 100 percent green technology for moving around the city
There are fines who leave it in a operating area any caught riding on the pavement or parking it irresponsibly
E scoter negative
It’s illegal only the trial escooters are legally allowed because police officers are there using there own in public roads
People leave the scooters in the middle of a path blocking busses and blocking drive ways
