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Theme 1.1 global cities Flashcards

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What is a HIC?

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High income county, eg. USA, Britain, france

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What is a NIC

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Newly industrialised country

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What is a MIC?

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Middle income country, eg. Brazil

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What is a LIC?

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Low income country, eg.

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What is urbanisation?

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The growth of towns and cities

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What is a mega city?

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A city with a population of over 10 million (10,000,000) people

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What is a global city?

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A city with significant global influence

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What is globalization?

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The process of a county or city gaining global influence

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What kind of things make a city a global city?

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Tourism, trade, migrant population, finance, transport, information and research, ect.

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Name the two alpha ++ cities

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London and New York

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What is the name for a colour coded map?

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A chloropleth map

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What is migration?

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The movement of people within a county or between countries

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What is immigration?

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Entering a new country

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What is an immigrant?

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The person entering a new country

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What is emigration?

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Leaving a country of origin

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What is an emigrant?

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The person leaving their country of origin

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What does urban mean?

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To do with towns and cities

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Ehat does rural mean?

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To do with the countryside

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What does suburban mean?

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A place outside the main city centre

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Describe Pyrmont-Ultima in Sydney

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  • 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
21
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Describe Paramatta in Sydney

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-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

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Describe Mosman in Sydney

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  • 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%
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Describe Cabramatta in sydney

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  • 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
24
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Describe the location of Sydney

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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.

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What is the CBD?

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The central business district

26
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Which method of data representation would be best to show a comparison between two different statistics? eg the population of sydney in 2001 compared to 2011

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A bar chart

27
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Is Mumbai a mega city?

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Yes, it has a population of around 23 million (23,000,000), as of 2019

28
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Is Sydney a mega city?

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No, it only has a population of around 5 million (5,000,000)

29
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How do you answer an ‘describe the location’ question?

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Continent -> country -> state -> north/east/south/west -> next to….. sea.

30
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Explain why the site of greater mumbai has contributed to the problems of traffic congestion

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It is located on an island, with only 4 railway crossings into the mainland. This creates congestion because the 7.5 million daily commuters must all cross at these same 4 crossings.

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Suggest some possible ways to improve Mumbai’s rail system

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  • encourage businesses to offer more flexible hours instead of the usual 9am-5pm hours
  • reserve more seats on trains for elderly passengers
  • improve toilet facilities
  • prevent people from travelling on the roofs of trains
  • remove all fast food kiosks and other vendors from all platforms
  • increase platform length
  • improve ventilation in carriages
  • demolish informal housing next to railway tracks
  • fit proper doors on all trains so passengers cannot travel half-in half-out
  • ect.
32
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Which method of data representation would be best to determine the correlation between poverty and rural to urban migration?

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A scatter graph, and a line of best fit if there is a correlation

33
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Why does the location of mumbai give it a greater global significance than places such as Kolkata and Chennai?

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Mumbai is located on the coast, meaning it would be easier for mumbai to trade internationally compared to Kolkata and Chennai, which are both landlocked, because it would have ports.

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What is the primary sector?

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Jobs that involve getting raw materials from nature, eg. farming, mining, fishing

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What is the secondary sector?

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Jobs that include making things in factories, eg. clothing, pottery, toys

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What is the tertiary sector?

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Jobs in shops and services, eg. nurse, teacher, shopkeeper

37
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What is the quarternary sector?

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Jobs in new, high-tech industries, eg. Scientists, programmers

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What is a formal occupation?

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A job that pays on a weekly or monthly basis, with a set wage and minimum wage, sick pay and pension. Tax is paid and are official and professional

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What is an informal occupation?

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A job that is not regulated by the state. You are paid as you work, there is no guaranteed wage or minimum wage, tax is not paid, it is unofficial and there is no sick pay or maternity leave. There are also no health and safety rules and no pension.

40
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Give an example of an informal occupation

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  • street vendor
  • stay at home parent
  • unofficial production, eg a small family pottery business
  • rag picker
  • rickshaw drivers
41
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Give an example of a formal occupation

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  • banking
  • jobs in the government
  • jobs in large corporations or buisnesses
  • jobs in the IT industry
  • engineers
  • proffesional doctors
42
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Name 3 sectors of egans wheel

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  • fair for everyone
  • active, inclusive and safe
  • well run and led
  • environmentally sensitive
  • well designed
  • well connected
  • thriving
  • well served
43
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Name 2 problems caused by population growth

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  • poor employment conditions
  • transport/traffic congestion
  • air pollution
  • housing shortages
  • slum development
  • problems with waste disposal
  • problems with water supply
44
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What type of housing is blocks of flats that are in 4 or 5 story old buildings with only 1 room per family poor ventilation?

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Chawl housing

45
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Give one positive and one negative about chawl housing

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\+affordable
\+some good facilities
\+strong sense of community
\+cost effective
\+space saving
\+electricity
-overcrowder
-poor ventilation
-only 1 room per family
-old buildings
-chance of fire
-buildings often in poor condition
-deseases spread quickly
-no waste disposal
-vermin
46
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What are squatter homes?

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Slum housing, houses people make themselves, informal, poor conditions, poor sanitation

47
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What are people called who dont have homes, so they live in makeshift shelters on the pavement. They are illegal and can be moved on by police or authorities. They pay rent to criminal gangs who controll the pavement

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Pavement dwellers

48
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What is a top down plan?

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A plan made by the government or an official to tackle poverty, eg. whole scale clearance of dharavi

49
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What is a bottom up plan?

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A strategy that helps the poor help themselves, eg. microcredit

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