Rapid Urbanisation + Case study
- Created by: TomT254
- Created on: 07-02-16 14:56
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- Located on the western coast, lying within India's richest state
- Mumbai
- Home to over 20 million people - receiving an estimated 1000 new migrants per day
- Causes of growth
- Services such as IT and Banking
- Mumbai's Uni's produce well educated English speaking graduates who get employed by large western companies
- Manufacturing; half of factory workers in Mumbai work for textile companies
- Construction as their is a large demand for housing
- Rapid Urbanisation: Mumbai
- Dharavi Slums - Mumbai
- Social
- Benefits
- Excusive, tight knit community
- Issues
- 1 million people living in 1 sq mile
- Wood is one of the main building materials used - creates a fire hazard
- Estimated 1 toilet per 500 people
- Child labour in factories
- Benefits
- Environmental
- Issues
- Rat infestation
- Smells of sewage and waste
- Sanitation issues e.g. water pipes are cracked an mix with sewage
- Risk of flooding in rainy season
- Issues
- Economic
- Benefits
- Lots of business
- Established high street
- 85% of people living in the slum have jobs
- Vast range of cottage industries - $40 million / year
- Issues
- Lots of people are poor
- Residents cant afford to move out
- Many businesses are unregulated
- Benefits
- Social
- Dharavi Slums - Mumbai
- Effects of Growth
- Positives
- Globalisation has provided Mumbai with good services
- Headquarters of large Indian TNC's
- Negatives
- Cities wealth attracts lots of migrants leading to overcrowding
- Unemployment and poor public services make life difficult for a large proportion of the pop
- Over 3000 people die on Mumbais railway network each year
- Positives
- Mumbai
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