Shanghai
- Created by: Julie Simpkin
- Created on: 09-05-13 19:00
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- Shanghai
- Sits on Yangtze River Delta
- On China's eastern coast
- Current population = over 23 million
- 2010 census - growth rate of 37.53%
- Why urbanisation is occurring - push factors
- Demand for resources
- Environmental degredation and pollution
- Increase in crime and security failures
- Poverty
- Why urbanisation is occurring - pull factors
- Employment
- Education
- Business opportunities
- Higher standard of living
- Floating population
- Resulted in housing shortages and overcrowding
- Low capacity road system struggling to cope
- 9 million bicycles
- 1 million cars
- AIms: Reduced congestion and improved air quality
- Brown agenda - less that 60% of waste and storm water and 40% of sewage flows intercepted
- 30,000 tonnes of building waste per day
- Remarkable progress made in pollution control - almost all houses have access to piped water, electricity and waste disposal
- Achieved a per capita GDP of over $4000
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