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

Question 1

1.What do the letters CBD stand for?

Answer 1

Central Business District.

Question 2

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

3.What 2 cultural factors have changed retailing?

Answer 3

• Car-dependent society.

- Bulk buying.

Question 4

4.What 4 technological factors have changed retailing?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

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

7.What are 4 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

8.What are 4 costs of internet shopping?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

9.Give 5 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

10.What does the word urbanisation mean?

Answer 10

The growth of towns and cities.

Question 11

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

Answer 11

10 million.

Question 12

12.Many of the worlds fastest growing cities are expected to be in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Answer 12

True.

Question 13

13.What does the word globalisation mean?

Answer 13

The global web of links between countries involving:

• people.
• trade.
• ideas.
• culture.

Question 14

14.What are global cities?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

16.What are the push and pull factors 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.

Pull:

• Job opportunities.
• Cheap rail travel.
• More educational opportunities.

Question 17

17.What connections does Mumbai have to the rest of the world

Answer 17

• Mumbai international airport.
• Tata Steel.
• Bollywood.

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Informal jobs.

Question 19

19.What is the name of Mumbai’s biggest slum?

Answer 19

Dharavi.

Question 20

20.Give 2 urban challenges Mumbai faces

Answer 20

• Reducing poverty and deprivation.

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

Question 21

21.The HIC global city of Cardiff has a large sphere of influence that connects it to the rest of the world give 3 examples of how.

Answer 21

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

Question 22

22.Cardiff has a large Somali community

Answer 22

True.

Question 23

23.Cardiff does not have a congestion problem

Answer 23

False.

Question 24

24.Cardiff has many commuters from the surrounding areas

Answer 24

True.

Question 25

25.Give 2 urban challenges that Cardiff faces

Answer 25

• Reducing congestion

- Reducing poverty and deprivation in Butetown.