Megacities
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 24-05-15 14:15
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- Megacites
- location
- in 2025 projected that there will be 15 mega cities
- only two in MEDCs
- New York and Tokyo
- greatest proportion are found In LEDCs
- eg manila, Delhi, and Mumbai
- only two in MEDCs
- in 2025 projected that there will be 15 mega cities
- Rapid growth
- Rostows theory
- take off due to investment
- triggering urbanisation and development of manufacturing and servuces
- job opportunities attract migrants
- governments encourage this because this will increase tax collected
- economic hotspots
- large work force with low minimum wage attracts TNCs
- take off due to investment
- Rostows theory
- Problems
- housing
- increase demand on housing, infrastructure and services
- migrants are often poor looking for a better quality of life
- cant afford the expensive housing due to high demand
- encourages the building of makeshift houses on unused land
- illegal and uncontrolled
- becoming a member of the urban poor
- deprivation
- urban poor live with many hardships
- limited employment to opportunities
- reliance on the informal economy
- government don't collect tax
- inadequate, over crowding and insecure housing
- exposure to diseases and pollutants
- lack of access to infrastructure such as telephone or internet
- urban poor live with many hardships
- Environment
- lack of regulations
- toxic or hazardous waste
- air and noise pollution
- industrial accidents due to poor standard of health and safety
- eg Bhopal a gas chemical spill took the lives of 20,000 people
- lack of regulations
- housing
- Pollution
- air pollution
- cairo
- so poor that its the equivalent of 20 cigarettes per day
- the air pollutant pm10 has led to 15,000 cases of chronic bronchitis
- cairo
- Water pollution
- untreated sewage leads to water borne diseases
- eg ganges
- created by leaking sewers, landfill sites and industrial waste
- untreated sewage leads to water borne diseases
- waste disposal
- slum dwellers have no waste disposal system
- leads to contamination
- trafic
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- decrease work productivity
- health issues doe to the release of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and ozone
- due to geomorphology photo chemical smog can occur
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- air pollution
- location
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