Retailing, Global Cities, Global Cities Connections, Mumbai & Cardiff

Question 1

What do the letters CBD stand for?

Answer 1

Central Business District

Question 2

What are the 5 economic factors have changed retailing?

Answer 2

Home delivery firms
Congestion in cities
Free parking at out of town retail parks
High parking costs in city centres
Monthly wages.

Question 3

What 2 cultural factors have changed retailing?

Answer 3

Car-dependent society

Bulk buying

Question 4

What 4 technological factors have changed retailing?

Answer 4

High broadband speeds, Sophisticated websites, Online only retailers, Internet Banking.

Question 5

What are 4 benefits of out of town shopping centres?

Answer 5

Large free car parking
Near major road junctions
Room for expansion
Cheaper land values
near suburban housing estates.

Question 6

What are 4 costs of out of town shopping centres?

Answer 6

Attracts shoppers away from CBD
Cause congestion on surrounding roads
Chain stores
Land use conflict with other developments such as business parks.

Question 7

What are 5 benefits of internet shopping?

Answer 7

Convenient and cheaper
Purchase products you can’t buy locally
less time consuming
reduction in traffic congestion
delivery jobs.

Question 8

What are 5 costs of internet shopping?

Answer 8

Not everyone has the internet
difficult to return products
CBD lose trade and therefore job lose
Delivery vans mean more traffic congestion
Online card fraud.

Question 9

Give 6 ways that Lancaster CBD fought back

Answer 9

New paving in pedestrianised areas
new street furniture,
Signage (Wayfinding)
Market day on Wednesday
Secure bike racks,
Trees planted.

Question 10

What does the word urbanisation mean?

Answer 10

The growth of towns and cities

Question 11

How many residents does a city need to have before it is called a ‘megacity’?

Answer 11

10 million

Question 12

Where are or expected to be most of the fastest growing cities?

Answer 12

Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia

Question 13

What does the word globalisation mean?

Answer 13

The global web of links between countries involving people, trade, ideas and culture.

Question 14

What are global cities?

Answer 14

Cities that play an important role in the global economic system of finance and trade.

Question 15

What 5 features do global cities have.

Answer 15

Finance & Trade
Governance and decision making
Media and information (Ideas, Information, innovation), Migration Cultural centres (Diversity)
Transport hubs

Question 16

What are the push that have caused rural to urban migration in Mumbai your NIC city example

Answer 16

Push - Countryside areas are poor, lack healthcare, limited job opportunities, poor sanitation

Question 17

What are the pull factors have caused rural to urban migration in Mumbai your NIC city example

Answer 17

Pull - Job opportunities, Cheap rail travel, More educational opportunities.

Question 18

What types of jobs do the people that live in extreme poverty in Mumbai do?

Answer 18

Informal jobs

Question 19

What is the name of Mumbai’s biggest slum?

Answer 19

Dharavi

Question 20

What connections does Mumbai have to the rest of the world?

Answer 20

Mumbai international airport
Tata Steel
Bollywood

Question 21

Give 2 urban challenges Mumbai faces

Answer 21

Reducing poverty and deprivation,

Housing (Chawls, Squatter Homes-Slums, Pavement Dwellers.)

Question 22

The HIC global city of Cardiff has a large sphere of influence that connects it to the rest of the world

Answer 22

International airport
The Principality Stadium (Millennium Stadium).
Admiral a Multinational Company
BBC TV Programmes such as Dr Who.

Question 23

What large community of Cardiff have?

Answer 23

Somali

Question 24

What problem does Cardiff have?

Answer 24

Congestion problem

Question 25

Cardiff has many commuters from the surrounding area

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Give 3 urban challenges that Cardiff faces

Answer 26

Reducing congestion
Reducing poverty
deprivation in Butetown.