urban environments sample questions Flashcards
discuss the problems associated with rapid urban growth in a HIC
Congestion and lack of housing Unemployment and deindustrialization Environment issues - pollution and waste Lack of sanitation services Decline of services High cost of living Transport
discuss the problems associated with rapid growth in LICS
Congestion and lack of housing Unemployment and deindustrialization Environment issues - pollution and waste Lack of sanitation services Decline of services High cost of living Transport
explain why the CBDs of HIC and LIC cites are broadly similar
CBDs - centre business districts
because that is where they share similar things such as in the LICs the best business and high price houses will be located around there with it being the same with LICs
discuss the social and enocmic problems it has experimented with reference to one urban area
Social: low quality of life e.g. housing- poor materials, lack of access to healthcare and education, poor infrastructure and lack of access to amenities e.g. electricity/piped water/sewage systems
Economic: poverty, lack of jobs
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discuss the benefits of building on brownfield sites as opposed to Greenfield sites
Redeveloping a Brownfield site not only boosts the economy by creating jobs and lifting property prices, but it improves the environment and creates a safer, healthier space. … Brownfield redevelopment can be cheaper because vital infrastructure (drainage, electricity, roads, transport networks etc.) already exists
what is the term used to describes the worlds biggest cities
mega city
explain the differences between a Greenfield site and a brownfield site
a Greenfield site is a site that has never been built on before while a brownfield site is a site that has been built on before and has something like a factory clearance
what is meant by the term urbanisation
people moving from rural areas to the city centre
outline two factors affecting the rate or urbanisation
encomium development increases rural to urban migration and urbanisation
birth rate high birth rate rises the population in urban populations
outline two factors encouraging the mergence of mega cities
encomium development - people more likely to get a job
population growth high birth rate and low death rate
what is the Burgess model and what is it based on
Burgess based his studies in Chicago. He claimed that most towns and cities grow outwards from an old centre and equally in all directions
what is there in the burgess model
CBD Zone of transition residential lower class residential middle class residential upper class
what are the charter tics of the suburbs
They grow because of transport
The houses are more Morden
It can be divided into inner and outer suburb
what are the characterises of the CBD
Concentration of shops and offices High price of land Buildings are tall with multiple uses Often the zone with the oldest buildings Concentration of traffic and pedestrians Little residential land use Nodal point for transport CBD is constantly changing
push factors
to leave
