Global cities Flashcards
Causes of urbanisation
-Push/pull factors
-Natural increase (people migrate to cities tend to be younger so have more kids)
Push factors from rural areas
-Lack of schools
-Lower house prices
-Lack of healthcare
-Less jobs
Global city
Well connected by process of urbanisation
Urbanisation
Physical and human growth of towns and cities
Alpha++ cities
London and New York
Features of global cities
-Migration and culture
-Governance and decision making
-Finance and trade
-Transport hubs
-Ideas and imformation
Factors that drive Globalisation
-MNCs
-Culture
-Trade
-Migration
-Techonology
Mega cities
Cities with a population of 10 million plus people
What is Mumbai
LIC, finance centre of india, gateway to asia during british colonisum
Reasons for growth in Mumbai
-Rural urban migration
-Women
-Joining families
-Education
Urban Pull factors
-Employment oppurtunites
-Acsess to education
-Avalibility of healthcare
-Sense of life will change
Pull factors of Mumbai
-Biggest financial centre so more employoment
-Higher wages
-Better education
-People don’t want to form in rural areas
Issues in Dharavi
-Chawls (4 or 5 story tennant buildings)
-73 percent of residents use communal latrines
-Railway safety (lots of people used train)
-Crime
-Fast spread of diseases
Ways of improving rail safety in Mumbai
Barries, voice annoucners
Positives of Dharavi
-Mumbais main recylcing centre
-10 000 different business
-Makes 65 million dollars per year
Negatives of Dharavi
-Cramped conditions with little privacy so diseases spread fast
-5 perent have private toilets
-Children drop out of school to help
Aims of vision Mumbai
Improve roads and decrease congestion on trains, clear slum housing, improve air qaulity, create jobs in construction tourisum and retail areas
Advantages of top down development
-Help area on a large scale
-Residents dont have to pay
-Help socially and can be environmentally conscious
Disadvantages of top down development
-Expensive
-Changes may be unwanted to an are
Micro credit
Low interest repayment
Plans in Mumbai to help transport
Metreosystem elavated highway, 160 energy efficient trains
Plans in Mumbai to help housing
20 000 slum dwellers moved inyo new apartments
Plans in Mumbai yo help enviroment
305 new open spaces, 300 public toulets
Plains in Mumbai to help employoment
20 000 service sector jobs
Dharavi project
Bottom up initiative that aims to legitmise rag pickers in the waste industry
Reasons for migration to london
-Wind rush
-Baby boom after war
London pull factors
-Jobs
-Housing
-Better acess to services
-Diversity
Effects of traffic
-Visual pollution
-Delay in deliveries
-Increased prob of acid rain
-Noise pollution
-Increased cars increased temp in cities
Stats for Pollution in london
-Failed EU standards
-Only recycle 32 percent 43 is national average
Stats for poverty
58 percent of people in london in a workinf family are in poverty
Cycle of deprevation
-Area of land left derelict
-People move
-Poorest left behind
-Environment declines
-Social issues
-New industries reluctant to return
-Industry declines and companes move away
