Pressures on cities
- Created by: Hannah Rodger
- Created on: 10-06-13 15:18
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- Pressures on cities
- Transport
- Whether a city is more compact or spread out - how much travelling (NY)
- Whether the trasport is sustainable with the energy usage.
- London - congestion chages, encouragement to use the tube. New bike stations for tourists.
- Sheffield and Nottingham - tram systems
- Land
- Urban Sprawl - Los Angeles
- Loss of land to urban activites - deforestation
- Urbanisation for work - ghost villages in places.
- Build new green areas - Hull reindustrialisation
- Urban Sprawl - Los Angeles
- Environment
- Amount of energy which a city uses.
- Hotspots for natual disasters - Tokyo and earthquakes
- Housing
- Increasing urbanisation
- New eco homes
- Dharavi - mumbai - poor yet very organised housing
- Big new focus on putting solar pannels onto houses
- Water supply
- Suseptable to flooding and tsunamis.
- Disposable income - people less inclined to save water
- Dharavi - mumbai - water turned on between 2 and 4 - sustainable!
- Resource and waste
- Poor sanitation can cause illness - diarea and cholera
- Rio da Janerio - favela of Rochina poor sanitation - cholera high
- Energy sources which are available - are they sustainable
- Recycling - bigger focus however still in big cities such as London there is a lot of waste
- Imports and exports in order to have food products all year round - more sustainable to look at GM CROPS.
- Singapore and Vietnam
- Poor sanitation can cause illness - diarea and cholera
- Transport
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