PEOPLE OF THE PLANET - URBAN Flashcards
What is a megacity?
A city with over 10 million people
What is Urbanisation?
Urbanisation is the process by which there is an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas
What is a World City?
A city considered to be an important hub in the world economic system
What is Rural - Urban Migration?
The movement of people from rural to urban areas
What is Natural Increase?
The natural growth in population as Birth rates exceed Death rates
What is a Pull Factor?
Factors that make people want to move to an area
What is a Push Factor
Factors that make people want to leave the area they live in
What is Marginal Land?
Land that is undesirable and has little potential for profit
What is an Informal Settlement?
Areas of substandard housing occupied by squatters who do not own the land
What are the local chiefs in Nigeria called?
Baale
What is a city?
A distinct identity that is the centre of a wider area, and a good record of local government
What is a conurbation?
A large urban agglomeration that results from several cities merging over time
What is internal growth?
when people who have moved into the cities have lots of children
Name two push factors
- poor education
- reduction in price of crops
Name two pull factors
- More opportunities for employment than in rural areas
and wages are often better - better healthcare systems and schools in urban areas
Define sustainability
Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
Name four Characteristics of world cities
- Top Universities
- Importance of ports
- Cultural attractions
- Number of TNCs
Where is Nigeria located?
Nigeria is a country in west Africa
What is Lagos’s influence in the region?
- Lagos is the major ICT Hub of west Africa
- Lagos is growing at a rapid rate of 4% per year 40% of
this is due to rural - urban migration
What is Lagos’s influence in Nigeria?
- Lagos has 9000 millionaires
- The university of Lagos is the second best university in
the country
What is Lagos’s influence in the world?
- Lagos has one of the largest and busiest ports in Africa
Give two stats for housing availability in Lagos
- 80% of Lagos residents cannot afford housing
- In the last 4 years 600,000 homes have been built
Give two stats for transport in Lagos
- Lagos is the only city of its size in the world that does not
have a citywide railway system - 13 - 21 million people forced to commute by roads
- In October 2005 there was an immense smog issue
Give two stats for waste in Lagos
- There are exactly 28 dumpsites in Makoko leaving a bad smell and unsanitary conditions
- 10,000 metric tonnes of waste produced a day
How big will Eko atlantic be?
10 million square metres of land
Positives of Eko Atlantic
- clean and energy efficient with minimal carbon emissions
- To defend against the coastal erosion and flooding, the
city is being surrounded by the “Great Wall of Lagos”, a
sea defence barrier made of 100,000 five-ton concrete
blocks - 250,000 people housed
Negatives of Eko Atlantic
- Eko Atlantic properties are pricey
- thousands of people who live in communities along the
coast expect the city will bring displacement
Advantages of using shipping containers instead of normal house building
- shipping containers are cheaper
-shipping container houses are quicker to make. They
take several weeks to make whereas the same concrete
structure would take several months
Advantages of Makoko floating settlements
- floating structure provides teaching facilities in the
Makoko slum district - adapts to the tidal changes and varying water levels
making it invulnerable to flooding and storms
