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Slums
Loving space
Jobs
Salary

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1 million people per metre squared
500 people per toilet
Litter Pickers,Recyclers,Street Vendors
1 dollar a day

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Lower Middle Class
Loving space
Jobs
Salary

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Small apartments 
1bhkn
4 people per flat 
Teacher shop sales people drivers
£750 monthly
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Upper Middle Class
Loving space
Jobs
Salary

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Luxury apartments with security
£320,000 worth per flat
Doctors lawyers long hours
£16,000 annually

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Hyper Urbanisation & link to Mumbai

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The rapid growth of city areas

3% a year so will double every 23 years, new areas such a as Nabi Mumbai are taken in ?

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How has the slum population changed compare proportionately to upper middle class

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In 1971 there was 6000 and 11,000,000 in 2011

Slum is proportionately increasing more than upper middle class

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Rural Urban Migration definition and why

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People move from rural areas to urban areas for better facilities and jobs

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Why does Natural Increase play a large role in the growth of Mumbai’s population ?

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1.4% growth every year due to natural increase (more births than deaths from Mumbai residents)

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One of the challenges facing Mumbai is tax

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Very few tax workers so impossible to collect form informal workers
Tax free zones for BT and Amazon so not enough taxes leading to infrastructure collapse

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Sustainable development definition and three ways to adhere to it

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Improving of the quality of life without compromising the future generations
Recycle and reuse
Energy efficient devices
Public transport or walking

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What is vision Mumbai

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A top down development scheme funded by the American firm McKinsey and govt, USD 40 billion
Started in 20p3 aimed completion for 2050
Tying to sustainably develop Mumbai

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Main aims of vision Mumbai

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Demolish the slums so there is 30% morn,and for offices and build shopping centres that will create business for slum dwellers
Improving healthcare and sanitation through 300 extra toilets (public) and the restoration of 325 green spaces that now hold polluted water
Improving transport by improving safety and beautification of roads
Boost economic growth as developers would buy slums for discount price

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For vision Mumbai plus social environmental and economic

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In 2007,200,000 people were moved from Dharavi social
In 2015 new measures were undertaken to improve air quality environmental
Platform ps have been raised to prevent people from falling into gaps social

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Against vision mumbai

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Beaches are still unsafe for recreation environmental
Rent costs more than slum dwellers earn economical
Slums are still growing rapidly social

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Name of bottom down development for challenges of an urbanising world and description

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Look seva sangam is a medical clinic that specifically targets leprosy and now TB. It refuses the isolation of patients and only targets one specific community within Dharavi

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Look Seva Sangam health related

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75% of people with leprosy are cured
LSS has been employed full time including 3 nurses to do house visits
Assurance of easy treatment and check up on patients

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Lok Seva Sangam Education

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5 teachers to survey and detect cases of disease

Alls work with wine. To provide menstrual education

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Community lok Seva sangam

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Talk about disease and personal care
DVDs played in the community group
On,y focuses on the slum communtiy

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Explain the causes of different land use

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Commercial land use are more likely to exist in accessible areas
If the cost of land is very high then businesses are more likely to exist there
The govt may reserve land for industries near ports far away from residential areas

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Urbanisation

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The process where an increasing amount of the population live in towns or cities

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By 2050 the largest cities will exist in

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Asia as there are more developing countries

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Characteristics of towns and cities

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2500-20,000 peop,e in towns

Over 20,000 in cities

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Million city is

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At least 1 million people

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Mega city is

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Over 10 million people

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World city is

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Major centre for cultural economic and political reasons not dependent on size

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Metropolitan

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Region consisting of a densely populated urban core

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Conurbation is

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When several cities merge to form one large continuos urban area

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Alpha ++ cities are

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London and NYC

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London reasons why it is ana Alpha ++

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Major time zone advantage for business with Asia & USA
1.34bn annual passengers on the worlds first underground
300 different languages and over 100,000 international students
Brexit could affect trade with EU

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NYC reasons it is an Alpha ++

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25% of the worlds gold is stored under Wall Street 1 out of every 21 New Yorkers are a millionaire
NYC is the top air passenger gateway to USA
Most linguistically diverse city in the world
Trump presidency may affect trade

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Does economic power and political power increase with population size?

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Agree- NYC is a mega city and alpha ++,plus other facts for economy and facts about trump
Disagree - London isn’t mega city,parliament & brexit,perfect business time zone,larger number of foreign equities trade and Tokyo is largest but not alpha ++

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Kampala, Uganda
Type of migration and def
5 reasons why

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Internal Migration (Rural - Urban)
Migration within a geopolitical entity
Better jobs,healthcare,transport,more investment

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New York, USA
Type of migration and def
5 reasons why

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International migration
When people move to a different geopolitical entity or a minimum length of time
To get better jobs in the knowledge economy

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Detroit, USA
Type of migration and def
5 reasons why

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Deindustrialisation 
Closure of industries 
Bankrupt in 2013
House prices dropped to £1
General Motors a main employee shut down
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Differences in migration refer to

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Kampala, New York and Detroit

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What is the informal economy

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The part of the economy that is either taxed or monitored by govt in any way

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3 case studies to do with informal economy

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Kampala,New Delhi, New York

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Kampala information sector facts and formal

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50% GDP comes from the informal economy
Pottery,selling spices,washing clothes

Shops,banks,airline,govt

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New Delhi information sector facts and formal

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Sell spices,street food,clothes
75% work in informal economy which is 50% of GDP of the 39th wealthiest city in the world

Services, manufacturing

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New York information sector facts and formal

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Most money made in knowledge
economy - banks,law,IT

Construction, cleaners,carers

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A city with a large informal economy is likely to be

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Undeveloped

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In migration def nad effect on rural urban migration and LEDCs

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The perceived higher quality of life in urban areas resulting in higher rates of rural urban migration and is in high rate in LEDCs since the 1950s

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Reclassification

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Many rural areas are now classified as urban areas and so are their dwellers

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Sub urbanisation is

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The movement do people,employment and facilities away from inner city toward other urban areas

44
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What has lead to sub urbanisation in NYC

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First subway line opened in 1901
Metro in 1863

Brooklyn bridge 1869
Cars

45
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Why would someone want to live on Long Island rather than Manhattan

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Less crowd
Larger houses + gardens
Easy commute

46
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Between 1950 and 1980 NYC lost 12% of its population. Why?

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Due to increasing amounts of residents from various smaller ethnicities, many people moved from the city to suburbs to avoid gang violence and run down areas. This is called white flight. Which is a form of counter urbanisation

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Reurbanisation occured in NYC after 1980. Why?

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Well paid jobs in knowledge economy increased

48
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Burgess model

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Created based on Chicago Illinois, rings of concentric circles each having a specific land use
CBD- central business district,crowded
Inner city -terraced houses run down, need repair
Inner suburbs - semi detached houses,more vehicle acces
Outer Suburbs-detached, New ,expansive
Rural urban fringe is agriclutural use

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Mumbai has a large national park with over how many plant species

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1000

50
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Mumbai has ? skyscrapers
Has ?oldest in Asia
Is made up of ? Islands

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106
Bombay Stock Exchange
7

51
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How/why does Mumbai not follow the burgess model

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It was built around the harbour so cbd is not in the centre
Land is too expensive near cbd so many people moved out to suburbs such as Navi Mumbai
Dharavi near port

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Examples of air pollution in Dharavi

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Pottery fumes

Asbestos causes lung cancer

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Examples of waste problems in Dharavi

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Lack of sewage disposal leads focus holder a and various diseases
People earn £1 a day from recycling
Built on a rubbish tip

54
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Housing problems in Dharavi

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Rats
5 people in 1 room
12ft by 12ft houses
Wooden built houses so easily catch fire

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Reasons why Dharavi is a slum of hope

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Everything’s gets recycled or usesd. 80% of plastic gets recycles
Local blades improvements such as more toilets
Sense of community especially with long help pottery traditions

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Problems faced within Dharavi

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Air pollution
Water pollution
Housing
Waste

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