UPs STATS + QUOTES Flashcards
Op of global networks
Flows of Capital (4)
London houses over one-third of Europe’s billion dollar companies which significantly influence the global economy, dominating large scale decision making and flows of capital
London HQ of multinational oil and gas company BP ranked 8th in the top 100 TNCs (UNCTAD, 2018) outsources in Philippines and India
NYSE and NASDAQ $50 trillion US dollars (Statistica, 2022)
Due to Russia invading Ukraine, almost all foreign automotive manufacturers withdrew from Russia and production in 2022 was down by 97% from 2021 (CNBC, 2022)
Op of global networks
Flows of People (6)
In London, 40% of population is foreign-born (City of London, 2022) with skilled work accounting for 63% of work-related visas granted in 2022 (UK Government)
According to the UN, the UK ranked 3rd in attracting highly skilled workers
HSBC has offices in 64 countries (supports the ‘promotion of highly skilled people to other countries’)
London has 26 million tourists annually, 17.8 million which are international
London Heathrow ranked 2nd busiest international airport, employing 76,000 people (more jobs = even more people)
London’s tourism industry, which contributes 9% of national GDP and has employed 380 000 people
Op of global networks
Flows of Information (3)
According to the GaWC run from Loughborough University in the UK, London is a WC ranked in the highest Alpha++ level based on its connectivity to the world
BBC Worldwide reaches 364 mil people weekly worldwide and BBC World News is broadcasted in English 24 hours a day in more than 200 countries
London has the world’s highest concentration of universities (43) with 120,000 international students enrolled at any given time
Dom + dep 3 points
- Financial Control of Production & Distribution
- Technological Dominance and Innovation
- Widespread Cultural Influence
Dom + dep
1. Financial Control of Production & Distribution
London with the world’s 3rd largest economy (The Globalist, 2021)
According to Statistica, London had a GDP of £731b British pounds and 271 HQs of 500 global TNCs (e.g. Unilever)
London has a 20% share of the world’s human capital in 2017 (City of London)
Dom + dep
Technological Dominance and Innovation
The invention of the iPhone transformed the mobile phone industry and their many products brought consistent sales (Apple raised $365 billion US dollars in revenue in 2021) and this has cemented Greater San Fran as a centre of global dominance as over 1 billion people use their products and services daily
Dom + dep
Widespread Cultural Influence
London Fashion Week generates over £100 million pounds of orders and over 32,000 hours of digital content watched in the UK from more than 100 countries
Def of rgnl city + small towns
Regional centre defined as population between 11,000-50,000 people whilst ABS defines small towns with populations between 1000-19,000
Dubbo pop growth + small town pop decline
Dubbo grown at 2.1% from 2017-18
Bogan Shire decline by 1.7% in same period
Dubbo
- Location
- Population
- Economy
- Evocity (services)
Dubbo is located in the Orana Region on the western slopes of NSW and Macquarie River, a little over 400 km north-west of Sydney
Dubbo population: 43,516 (2021 Census) from its 2011 population of 32,327
Dubbo supports a total of 23,000 jobs, with an annual economic output of $6.8 bil
Australian Unity Wellbeing index data showed that people living in regional Australia are the happiest - as an Evocity member, rapid growth with attractive housing costs ($400 000), 6 major shopping centres, 20 schools, 4 tertiary campuses and 120 eateries (leading to increased employment opportunities)
Nyngan + Bogan Shire (3)
Population of 1953 (2021 Census)
Lost 10.5% of its population since 1986 (The Regional Institute)
In April 1990, Nyngan and Bogan Shire suffered the worst flooding the area has known when a wall of water 14 km wide spread across the town, resulting in its inundation and isolation, causing ‘$50 million of damage’ (Michael Cawood, flood expert)
Growth, development, future trends and ecological sustainability
GROWTH
- Syd past/present
- Suburbanisation
- Urban consolidation
In the past 25 years, Sydney has grown from a population of 1.3 million to 4.7 million
According to the NSW Dept of Planning, Sydney’s population is projected to reach 9.8 million by 2041
Suburbanisation, where 181,000 new homes are to be built in western Sydney by 2036 (Australian govt, 2021)
Urban consolidation: inner city area and ‘Global Sydney’ corridor, where 29% of Sydney housing were townhouses or apartments (2021 Census)
World cities role
Cultural Authority (4)
Opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics had 4.7 billion viewers (70% of world’s population)
London Fashion Week generates over £100 million pounds in orders per season and over 32,000 hours of digital content watched from over 100 countries
Wimbledon Championships 2019 saw 500,000 people attend and Louvre in Paris contributes greatly to its status as the ‘world’s most popular tourist destination’
London Heathrow ranked 2nd busiest international airport (OAG)
Opening stat for role of WCs
London, NY and Tokyo are examples of thriving world cities, with London ranking 2nd in Business Insider’s Most Influential Cities Ranking 2018
MC characteristics
Informal economy (69% of Lagos population)
Manufacturing (35-40% of Mumbai population)
MC spat dist (3)
Majority of megacities are in or near the tropics (23°N and 23°S)
There are approximately 35 megacities globally, with 25 of these being located in the developing world (predicted to grow to 43 by 2030)
Exponential population growth has led to the projected 17 megacities in Africa by 2030
CHALL + RESP
MC Housing - LAGOS (2)
Insecure housing is a major challenge in Lagos Nigeria, with ⅔ of the population of 21 million living in slums with no access to roads, clean water, and waste disposal (BBC, 2019)
Lagos Megacity Project aimed to destroy ¾ of slums (Quartz Africa)
CHALL + RESP
MC Water - LAGOS
no. of people worldwide lacking access to basic drinking water
Worldwide 884 million people lack basic drinking water (TapSafe, 2021)
LAGOS WATER DEMAND
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% with water
Lagos has a 724 million gallon demand daily despite only 317 million gallons produced per day (Transnational Institute, 2020)
The UN estimates that only 10% of the population have access to piped water supply, however even this system is in disrepair
LAGOS WATER RESP
Packaged sachets of water 6 cents affordability (TapSafe, 2021)
In a 2009 laboratory study of 10 sachet water brands on the market of Lagos, researcher A.C. Dada found extremely low levels of compliance with regulatory standards (22% of all samples were non-compliant)
World Bank investing $200 million in Lagos in attempts to extend and improve the water supply infrastructure
JAKARTA POP (link to challenge)
Jakarta is extremely congested as it has a population of more than 30 million people
Extent of Jakarta traffic congestion + infrastructure chall (3)
Jakarta was named the world city with the worst traffic in the Castrol Stop Start Index in 2019
While the number of motorised vehicles has increased by 8.1% annually, the road network has only grown at a rate of 0.01% (Jakarta govt)
It is the supply and demand imbalance that creates the traffic congestion, according to Jakarta Deputy Governor Sutanto Soehodho, who is in charge of transportation
Jakarta traffic response (2)
The MRT was first planned in 1997, but was not completed until 2019 (Indonesia Investments) which signifies a very slow and ineffective response
According to Channel News Asia, there were only 14 trains running daily across 15.7km of railway line
UD - case study universal introduction
Syd location
Sydney is a secondary world city in Australia, situated on a latitude of 34°S and longitude 151°E with a population of 5.2 million living in low density suburbs sprawling over 12,000km²
SYD EDU (2) - part of social structure and spatial patterns of advantage and disadvantage, wealth and poverty, ethnicity
71.2% of schools south of the latte line are below the national average compared to only 3.6% north of the line (SMH, 2021)
“No schools in any of the City’s advantage suburbs are below the national average, and almost no schools in disadvantaged areas are above average” - Crinchton Smith, Macquarie Uni
SYD ethnicity (2)
Sydney is a highly ethnically diverse city, with 42% of the population speaking a language other than English at home (ABS, 2021)
Migrants of Hong Kong/Chinese heritage (16%) are generally from the ‘skilled migrant programme’ attracted to Sydney due to better education and high paying job opportunities
Spatial Patterns of Advantage/Disadvantage
‘Suburbanisation of disadvantage’ - Professor Randolf, UNSW
Health - adv developments
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital underwent a $265 million redevelopment in 2021
Health - disadv obesity
Highest rates of overweight/obese children residing in western/south Sydney (e.g. ⅓ of children in Mount Druitt are obese) compared to obesity being lowest in northern suburbs like Mosman where 83% of children had healthy range BMIs (SMH, 2019)
Health - western and southern suburbs
75% of adults in Western and Southern suburbs did little to no exercise (SMH, 2019)
CHGING ECON CHAR, RES, COMM, INDUS
Indus dev
People employed in manufacturing declined from 28% in 1966 to less than 8% today (Committee for Sydney, 2017)
CHGING ECON CHAR, RES, COMM, INDUS
Comm dev (1)
Retail comm dev (2)
‘Global Sydney’ generates 41% of NSW’s total economic output (Infrastructure NSW) and employs 1 million people in tertiary jobs
Since the 1960s, there have been rapid changeovers consisting of the merging and purchasing of businesses
The extent of this change is evident through 25% of Sydneysiders’ shopping occurring in such complexes
BROO
Introductory stats (2)
Barangaroo is a 22 hectare waterfront precinct/suburb located on the North Western edge of Sydney’s CBD and the southern end of the Sydney Opera House at 34°S, 151°E
Sydney’s largest urban renewal project since 2000 Olympics, costing $6+ billion (Greater Sydney Commission)
CHGING ECON CHAR, RES, COMM, INDUS
Changing economic character (2)
There are over 600 multinational firms in the city (Invest NSW, 2021)
In 2018/19 Greater Sydney had a GDP of over $460 billion per year, which is around quarter of Australia’s GDP and around three quarters of the NSW GDP (City of Sydney, 2020)