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Mumbai - Case Study Flashcards

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What is Mumbai?

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A port city in north east coast of India, state capital of Maharashtra

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What is hyper urbanisation?

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Urbanisation that happens rapidly

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How has the population of Mumbai changed in 1991 vs 2016

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10 million people to 20 million people

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What is predicted for Mumbai?

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Predicted it will become the world’s largest city in 2050

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Why do people move to mumbai?

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More jobs, better healthcare, better education (12 universities)

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What % of homes are single rooms in Mumbai?

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80% of homes

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What are chawls

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The low quality multi storey buildings in Mumbai

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What is Mumbai’s growth causing it to form?

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A concurbanisation

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What are squatter settlements?

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Where housing is built by people from any material possible on land that doesn’t belong to them usually in the outskirts of cities

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Why do squatter settlements form?

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As people want to gain the cities opportunities but can’t actually afford to live their

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Where are the Dharavi slums?

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North east Mumbai

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How many share a tap in the Dharavi slums?

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1 tap shared with 12 neighbouring homes

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How is air quality lowered in the Dharavi slums?

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As they have a pottery industry and they burn rubbish

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How many cases of disease do doctors deal with per day and why in the Dharavi slums?

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4000 cases of sickness per day because of poor sanitation

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Where is India’s largest slum?

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Dharavi

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Which kinds of disease are common in the Dharavi slums?

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Typhoid and diphtheria

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How many live in a sq mile in the Dharavi slums?

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Almost 1 million

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How big is the average home in the Dharavi slums?

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12 feet by 12 feet housing 5 people

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Give an example of a dangerous home in the Dharavi slums

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1 home houses 21 people and each room beds 5 people, the house is full of asbestos, doesn’t have much ventilations and can easily catch fire

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What are the jobs in slums like?

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Informal sector, lowly paid

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What is the salary in slums like?

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Lowly paid, can depend on number of items sold, insecure

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What is living space like for the low middle class?

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Average size families living in a 1 bed flat with a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and living room

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What are jobs like for the low middle class?

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More formal jobs, like teachers

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What is the salary like for a teacher in the low middle class?

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Earning of £230 per month

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What are the future prospects for low middle class people?

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They could get higher paying jobs like IT and engineering

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What is living space like for the upper middle class?

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Companies pay for their accommodation with luxury 1 bed apartments

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What are jobs like for the upper middle class?

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People mainly work in large companies and other formal jobs

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What is salary like for upper middle class?

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Company worker earns £16000 a year on average but finds it hard to afford their own place

29
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What are the future prospects for the upper middle class?

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People will be able to afford their own housing without relying in their company

30
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What kind of large scale development is being planned for Dharavi ?

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The $2 billion development project plans to build over Dharavi and relocate the slum dwellers to housing elsewhere

31
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What % of rubbish gets recycled in Mumbai?

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80%

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Why is the large amount of rubbish being recycled negative?

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People have to work with toxic substances without protective clothing

33
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How often is hyper - urbanisation happening?

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Every year and so is doubling every 23 years

34
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How big is the city of Mumbai?

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68km sq

35
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How big is the suburban district of Mumbai?

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370km sq

36
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How big is the metropolitan district of Mumbai?

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602 km sq

37
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What is navi mumbai and how many live there?

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A new suburban Mumbai built on mainland, 1 million lived their in 2015 mainly middle class

38
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What % of Mumbai’s population live in slums?

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60%

39
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What capital of India is Mumbai?

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The commercial capital

40
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Which of the jobs in Mumbai has investment been greatest?

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Manufacturing, construction and entertainment and leisure

41
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Why is living in or around the city center of Mumbai become expensive?

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Because of the growth of investment and jobs

42
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How has the population of greater Mumbai changed since 1991 and 2011?

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It has increased

43
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What are the problems with the population growth in Mumbai?

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CBD is expensive, housing shortages, slum development, easier for diseases to spread

44
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What are the tax problems in Mumbai

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There are few tax collectors so informal workers don’t need to pay tax and the city set up economic liberisation but the government isn’t gaining money

45
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Why is tax important for Mumbai

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As mumbai can’t provide services for the population without income tax

46
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Why is there housing shortages and slum development?

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Private companies are put of building as the government reduced rental income and people rarely have enough money to leave the slums as Mumbai is so expensive

47
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Why is there problems with water supply and waste disposal?

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80% of Mumbai’s waste is recycled making it dangerous for workers and 800 million litres of untreated sewage go into rivers every day

48
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What is the problem with air pollution and traffic in Mumbai?

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3500 die on Mumbai’s railways each year, not enough train or bus networks to meet the demand

49
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How is mumbai trying to improve air quality?

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By introducing the air quality index in 2015, charging higher road tax on older vehicles, improving public transport and lowering the use of benzene petrol

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