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Urban Issues And Challenges Flashcards

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1
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Why is Mumbai important internationaly?

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Bollywood is a global film Industry and Mumbai is a financial capital

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What is the name of the squatter settlement in Mumbai

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Dharavi

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3
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What is one environmental opportunity in Mumbai

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Dharavi recycles most of Mumbais waste 80% is recycled

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4
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Push factor

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Negative things in the countryside

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Pull factors

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Attractive things in the city

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Urbanisation

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Increase in proportion of people living in organ areas compared to the countryside

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Mega city

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A city with a population over 10 million

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Natural increase

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Birth rate is higher than death rate

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Urban growth

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Increase in physical size and population of towns and cities

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Mumbai opportunities

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Employment
Incomes are higher
Access to health care and education easier

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Push factors for Mumbai

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Lack of rain in countryside
Farming low paid
Finding work in farming is hard

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12
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Why is Mumbai significant

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International companies
Bollywood
60% of India’s se a trade
Financial capital

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Mumbai opportunities

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Employment in fashion electronics
Access to healthcare and education
Good community

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Dharavi

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Everything is recycled
85% employment in slums
4billion dollars for economy

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Urbanisation definition

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Increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to countryside

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Mumbai sanitation scheme

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Sewage systems
Community blocks built
5000 toilets built

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Mumbai electrification project

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New or upgraded electricity connections for 10,000 slum dwellers

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Housing scheme Mumbai

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Developing slums into permanent residential areas

19
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Why is London important for uk

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Uk parliament
Jobs
Home to London stock market
Average Londoner earns 23% more than average uk resident
800,000 people commute to London to work everyday
12.5 % of London population

20
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Why is London internationally important

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Notting Hill second biggest street festival in world first in Europe
300 languages
One of the most visited cities
34% of of population born overseas
O2 most popular for 5 years
220 global company headquarters

21
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Entertainment

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O2
Westerfield - largest mall in Europe
Queen Elizabeth park
Emirates airline cable car

22
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Stratford redevelopment

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110,000 new jobs 125,000 are expected
Technology and science booming
Westfield shopping employs 10,000

23
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Why is employment good

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More money
Better for economy
Government more tax
Rates of unemployment decrease
Less welfare
Crime decrease

24
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Urban greening

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A tree per person in London
47% of city is Green space
Improves wellbeing
Air quality

25
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Housing deprevation London

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Bourse prices hit all time high in London
Deprevation in central and east London
Rich in outskirts and south

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Education inequality

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Health inequality London

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Life expectancy
Babies more likely to be born underweight in east London
Air pollution kills 9000

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Employment challenges

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Lower grades in areas
Less income from jobs
More benefits from government

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Economic challenges

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2 million live in poverty
Very unequal city

30
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Green belt

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1955

31
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London Olympic regeneration

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Billions of pounds of investment
Plants planted
Global companies
Hundreds of thousands of new jobs
New houses affordable

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Olympic regeneration bad

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Houses demolished
5 billion over budget
Bourse prices in area risen 64%

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Sustainability

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Meeting the needs of today without harming the needs of the future

34
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Frieburg

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Transport management
Waste recycling
Greenspace

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