Urban Flashcards
What is natural increase?
Where the birth rate is higher than the death rate
What is rural to urban migration?
The movement of people from rural to urban areas
How much has crossrail cost the British government?
£18.8 billion+
People move to a city to have a better quality of life, what is this an example of?
Urban pull
Lack of job opportunities leads to people moving away from rural areas, what is this an example of?
Rural push
The Mumbai slum sanitation project is a bottom up scheme, what is meant by bottom up?
The development of the infrastructure is done by community volunteers and maintained by locals.
How many toilets have the Mumbai Slum Sanitation Project provided in Mumbai?
5100
Where is the olympic park in London?
Newham
Name 2 positives of Building on a Greenfield site
- low land cost (cheap to build on)
- No demolition required
Name 2 negatives of building on Greenfield sites
- May require additional road access
- could eat into green belt
Name 2 positives of building on brownfield sites
- High levels of roads and infrastructure surrounding the site
- Doesn’t build into green belt
Name 2 negatives of building on brownfield sites
- may require demolition work
- Land could be expensive or require large scale planning permission
Bottom up schemes are managed by ___________ to improve the __________ __ _____
Locals, Quality of life
London is home to which significant political buildings, holding how many MPs
Houses of Parliament, 650 MPs
How many tourists visit London a year
20 million (55% of all foreign tourists in the uk)
Tourist attractions in London
- Buckingham Palace
- O2
- Tate Modern
- Tower of London
What percentage of Londoners are foreign born
35%
Population of reading
320,000
How much was invested into Stratford’s transport improvements
£17 billion
3 Environmental improvements of the Redevelopment of Stratford
- Polluted waterways cleaned
- 4,000 trees and 74,000 plants planted
How many jobs did redevelopment in Stratford produce
12,000
How many new homes where built during the regeneration of Stratford
9,000
Half of Londons wealth is owned by the top __ % of earners
10%
Unemployment in Kensington and Chelsea
4.8%
