Theme 1.1 global cities Flashcards
What is a HIC?
High income county, eg. USA, Britain, france
What is a NIC
Newly industrialised country
What is a MIC?
Middle income country, eg. Brazil
What is a LIC?
Low income country, eg.
What is urbanisation?
The growth of towns and cities
What is a mega city?
A city with a population of over 10 million (10,000,000) people
What is a global city?
A city with significant global influence
What is globalization?
The process of a county or city gaining global influence
What kind of things make a city a global city?
Tourism, trade, migrant population, finance, transport, information and research, ect.
Name the two alpha ++ cities
London and New York
What is the name for a colour coded map?
A chloropleth map
What is migration?
The movement of people within a county or between countries
What is immigration?
Entering a new country
What is an immigrant?
The person entering a new country
What is emigration?
Leaving a country of origin
What is an emigrant?
The person leaving their country of origin
What does urban mean?
To do with towns and cities
Ehat does rural mean?
To do with the countryside
What does suburban mean?
A place outside the main city centre
Describe Pyrmont-Ultima in Sydney
- coastal suburb
- closest to Sydney’s central business district
- recently regenerated and renewed
- home to the white bay power station
- close to Sydney harbour
- once an important dock area
- dock industries declined after ww2
- area became run down
- had a regeneration program
Describe Paramatta in Sydney
-located in the western part of greater Sydney
-originally called rose guild by Europeans
-became Sydney’s second CBD
-23km from the city centre
-makes major contributions to Sydney’s economy
government offices relocated here, including the New South Wales police force headquarters
-large multicultural suburb which has attracted many indian migrants over the last 15 years
Describe Mosman in Sydney
- very expensive, most houses cost over 1,000,000 Au$
- lots of societies and organisations, strong sense of community
- incredably safe
- has some of Sydney’s most picturesque beaches
- coastal suburb
- median house cost is 3.85 million Au$ (3,850,000)
- median age is 40
- 2/3 residents born in Australia. Next common were England, New Zealand, USA and South Africa
- 30% of employed people traveled to work on public transport, compared to the average 10%
Describe Cabramatta in sydney
- very high vietnamese and Cambodian immigration levels
- located 30km from Sydney’s city centre
- grew rapidly in the 1970s when it revieved migrants who had fled the war in Vietnam
- 35% of cabramattas population was born in Vietnam and around 1/3 of Sydney’s residents born in Cambodia live in this suburb
- such a high percentage of vietnamese immigrants and second generation immigrants live in cabramatta that the culture has been heavily influenced, eg. elaborate buildings, authentic vietnamese food and signs written in vietnamese
Describe the location of Sydney
Sydney is located in the continent of Oceania, in the country of Australia, in the state of new south wales, on the south east coast next to the tasman sea.
