Key Question 2
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- Key Question 2
- Social Issues of Growth
- Insufficient provision of public services
- Education + health care
- Insufficient provision of basic needs
- Clean water + sanitation
- Increasing health problems
- Water contamination from increasing waste + sewage
- Growth of squatter settlements
- Poor quality housing and overcrowding
- Traffic congestion and air pollution
- Insufficient provision of public services
- Economic Issues of Growth
- Increase in informal sector
- Loss of tax revenue to the govt.
- High underemployment + low wages
- High cost to govt. to provide public services +build necessary infrastructure
- Insufficient job opportunities
- Increasing number of in-migrants
- Increase in informal sector
- Economic Issues of Decline
- Decrease in tax revenue
- Govt. less finances to invest in services and infrastructure
- Lack of job opportunities
- Results in high unemployment
- High cost to govt. to pay for benefits
- Increasingly difficult to attract inward investment
- Derelict post-industrial landscape
- Decrease in tax revenue
- Social Issues of Decline
- Decline in quality of public services
- Education + healthcare due to reduced govt. funding
- Decline in physical and psychological health
- Increased crime - riots
- Decline in quality of housing
- People have less disposable income to invest in homes
- Isolation + fear - particularly elderly
- High levels of poverty
- Decline in quality of public services
- Mexico City - Growth
- Located towards centre of Mexico
- City is 2000m above sea level
- Built on old lake beds
- Lake slowly drained to allow colonial city to grow
- City is slowly sinking
- Pop. 21 million
- Primate city
- 1000 in-migrants per day
- Push from rural areas
- High natural increase, decreasing death rate
- Insufficient food production due to rapid pop. growth
- Lack of services
- Pull from Mexico City
- Better education + health care
- Opportunities for entertainment
- Perception of better life and employment opportunities
- High natural increase due to in-migrants being young and economically active
- Economic Issues
- High underemployment
- Low wages ($4 per day) for low skilled workers
- Long working hours
- Informal sector
- Taxes aren't paid
- Less money for government to provide basic services
- All members of family have to work
- Health
- Respiratory problems due to 3 million cars and 30,000 industrial sites
- Heavy traffic congestion in the north (industry)
- Sewage system poorly constructed
- Flows into open rivers
- 11,000 tonnes of rubbish per day
- Social
- People live with relatives or shacks built
- overcrowding
- No running water
- School out of question
- No birth control or health education
- Teenage pregnancy
- People live with relatives or shacks built
- Located towards centre of Mexico
- Newcastle
- De-industrialisation
- Industries closed
- Areas of city became derelict
- Deprivation
- Fewer jobs, less quality housing, poorer services
- Regeneration
- Reversing decline
- Investing in the arts and the uni
- De-industrialisation
- Social Issues of Growth
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