Mumbai Megacity
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- Created on: 09-05-15 13:28
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- Mumbai Megacity
- Background information
- On the West coast of India
- Has rapid population growth
- Population has nearly doubled since 1991
- Consolidating state of urbanisation
- Mumbai contributes to 40% of India's foreign trade
- Problems caused by urbanisation
- Expensive housing due to huge demand
- Traffic congestion
- Inadequate and expensive healthcare
- Push factors
- Lack of basic services
- Overcrowding
- Many jobs involve agriculture - the growing population means residents are forced to have smaller plots of land.
- Pull factors
- Access to the Arabian sea has allowed Mumbai's port to expand
- Caused industrial development
- Increased trade
- Urban Mumbai has schools and universities
- Job opportunities in textiles, shipping and freight brought by TNCs
- Access to the Arabian sea has allowed Mumbai's port to expand
- Development over time
- Rapidly increasing population due to pull factors
- Pull factors
- Access to the Arabian sea has allowed Mumbai's port to expand
- Caused industrial development
- Increased trade
- Urban Mumbai has schools and universities
- Job opportunities in textiles, shipping and freight brought by TNCs
- Access to the Arabian sea has allowed Mumbai's port to expand
- Pull factors
- Has reached consolidating stage of urbanisation
- Slum areas of Mumbai are growing the most rapidly
- Dharavi slums
- 85% of people there have a job
- There is a strong sense of community
- The oldest part of Dharavi (the centre) has been greatly developed
- Now looks like a city
- Has poor living conditions
- Dharavi slums
- Rapidly increasing population due to pull factors
- Strategies in place
- Site and service schemes
- City authorities set out water pipes, electricity and roads before slums develop
- Afterwards, low income people build their home there,
- City authorities set out water pipes, electricity and roads before slums develop
- Rehousing residents
- Moving Dharavi residents into new 7 storeys' high social accomadation
- Slums destroyed afterwards
- Moving Dharavi residents into new 7 storeys' high social accomadation
- Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
- For example SPARC
- They are working with slum dwellers to improve housing quality and standard of living.
- For example SPARC
- Site and service schemes
- Proposed future strategies
- Plans to build a new city
- A new city may be build 50 miles away in Uran
- Helps deal with overcrowding
- An additional city has been built on the outskirts of Mumbai before, called 'Navi Mumbai'
- A new city may be build 50 miles away in Uran
- Redeveloping Mumbai's dockland
- Should provide affordable housing, transport links and public space
- Mumbai Metro
- A major transport project
- Should reduce travel time and pollution
- Fully air conditioned trains should be pleasant to travel on
- A major transport project
- Plans to build a new city
- Is Mumbai sustainable?
- For
- Dharavi carries out loads of recycling
- Against
- Mumbai's infrastructure is in danger of collapse
- For
- Background information
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