Urban environments - Newcastle and Rio de Janeiro
- Created by: CallumD2
- Created on: 01-09-18 15:23
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- Urban Environments
- Newcastle
- Problems
- Litter and Graffiti
- Lots of old industrial sites.
- 34% of unemployment in west end.
- Houses are overcrowded.
- Fear of crime. Crime is mostly burglaries.
- Large number of one-parent families.
- Just under 300,000 people live in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
- Solutions
- TWDC
- Built a new business park costing around £140 million.
- Newcastle arena - music and sports events.
- Quayside redeveloped with new flats and shops.
- TWECC
- Created new jobs.
- Spent £37.5 million.
- Fitted CCTV to reduce crime.
- Created new housing in Scotswood.
- Support for training an employment opportunities.
- TWDC
- Problems
- Rio de Janeiro
- Problems
- Over 1 million people live in favelas.
- Favela's are seen as areas linked with organised crime, drugs and violence.
- Houses are built on steep hills so flash floods easily destroy housing. In 1988 over 200 people died in a mudslide.
- Huge amounts of waste is created.
- Over 6 million people live in Rio.
- Still a Megacity.
- Solutions
- The government added pavements, water pipes and some light into the favela.
- Buildings upgraded to brick an tile.
- Residents of Rochina transformed the favela into a small city.
- Set up small shops and industries.
- Rio has 2 sides
- The beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema - backed by luxury housing.
- The problems of rapid urban growth including crime, favelas and drugs.
- Problems
- Newcastle
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