Word Cities Content Flashcards
In 1960 how much of the global population lived in urban areas and what figure had this risen to by 2014?
1960- 34%
2014- 54%
Nearly half of the worlds urban population live in settlements of less than how many people?
500,000
In 1950 what were the only 2 mega cities?
New York and Tokyo
In 2014 how many mega-cities were there and how many people are they home to?
28- home to 453 million people AKA 12% of the world’s population
Name the top ten populated cities in the word
- Tokyo 38 million
- Delhi 25 million
- Shanghai 23 million
- Mexico City ~21 million
- Mumbai ~21 million
- São Paolo ~21 million
- Osaka ~20 million
- Beijing (just under) 20 million
- New York-Newark ~18.5 million
- Cairo ~18.5 million
By 2025 it is estimated what percentage of the world’s urban population will live in developing countries?
80%
What are the most urbanised continents?
Europe, North America, South America, Australia
What is the most rapidly urbanising continent?
Asia but Africa is also rapidly urbanising
Three cities sit at the top of the global hierarchy. What are they?
- New York
- London
- Tokyo
What do the globally leading cities have?
- They have the headquarters of many TNCs
- Centres of world finance
- Provide international consumer services
- Are learning centres, with networks of universities, policy makers and company research bases
Name four other major world cities
- Los Angeles
- Paris
- Singapore
- São Paolo
What are the three ways in which world cities can be characterised?
- They’ve lost a lot of their routine low value jobs to other countries
- They have high levels of synergy to benefit their economic structures. Companies and individuals can work together closely
- They offer a wide range of jobs but the workforce can be polarised.
What are the four hubs world cities can be classified as?
- Hubs of business, transport and trade
- Production hubs
- Political hubs
- Migration hubs
How other can world cities dominate?
- Culturally
2. Global languages
How can world cities be classed?
- Alpha ++
- Alpha +
- Alpha
- Beta
- Gamma
What did cities start as?
Centres for organising agricultural production, trading surplus produce and administering the rural area around them
What did cities attract as they grew?
Other functions, administrative, policing, arts and entertainment and education
Why did cities grow in the industrial revolution?
- The agricultural revolution- mechanised farming, fewer people to work in the countryside
- Industrialisation and the growth of factories drew in labour from the countryside, factories grew up in places of power
- New courses of power (coal) meant that industries concentrated in mining areas
- Improved transport systems- canals, then railways and roads
- Improvements in medicine and hygiene
What did large scale rural urban migration lead to?
Slum housing. There often weren’t enough jobs or houses for everyone in the cities
When did urbanisation levels peak in the MEDW and what have they done since then?
The 1970s, they have fallen steadily since then
Urbanisation has occurred recently in which continents?
South America, Asia and Africa
There has been a shift in manufacturing from the developed world to lower wage economies such as….? What has happened in these areas as a result of this?
China and India, this has led to rises in rates of economic development and urbanisation
As with the growth of European cities in the 1800s what problems are developing cities facing?
A lack of planning, poor people were driven from the countryside by a lack of jobs, food and education. These people were looking for a better life but were faced with appalling housing conditions
