Urban Futures
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- Urban Futures
- An Urban World
- Urbanisation
- ACs
- Urbanises slowly
- LIDC and EDC
- Urbanises rapidly
- Asia and Africa
- Africa
- Urbanising rapidly
- Least urbanised continent
- causes
- Rural-urban migration
- Movement of people from the countryside to the city
- Largest city in Africa
- Internal Growth
- Higher birth rate than death rate
- Internal Growth
- Push and pull factor
- force people to move to the city
- Disease
- attract them to the city
- Jobs
- force people to move to the city
- Rural-urban migration
- Lagos
- Largest city in Africa
- Internal Growth
- Higher birth rate than death rate
- Internal Growth
- Largest city in Africa
- Oppotunities
- Quality of Life
- Life Expectancy
- Employment
- Squatter Settlements
- Sustainability
- Challenges
- Inequality
- Segration
- Slums
- Overpopulation
- Environmental Damage
- ACs
- Cities
- Mega cities
- Population over 10 million
- Causes
- Natural Population Increases
- Healthier, less deaths and lengthened life
- Migration
- Migrates to cities
- Coastal Location
- grown for port, trade advantage
- Economic Development
- Trade = Business, grow into centre of production, more jobs
- Natural Population Increases
- Examples
- New York
- Mexico City
- Meta cities
- Population of 20 million
- eg Tokyo
- Population of 20 million
- World Cities
- Hubs for International Trade
- Examples
- New York
- London
- Mega cities
- Urbanisation
- How cities began and grew
- 4000BC
- First cities appear in Egypt, the Middle East, India and Chivas
- 2000BC
- Cities at the center of the Greek Empire and Roman Empire grow
- 300AD
- Rome is the first city to reach 1 million people. Later it falls
- 600AD
- In Europe cities decline because of the Dark Age
- 1300AD
- Cities in South America grow in Aztec and Inca Empire
- 1400AD
- European population in cities decline because f the Black Death
- 1400AD
- Cities in South America grow in Aztec and Inca Empire
- 1300AD
- In Europe cities decline because of the Dark Age
- 600AD
- Rome is the first city to reach 1 million people. Later it falls
- 300AD
- Loads of food many people move in and learn new skills
- 300AD
- Rome is the first city to reach 1 million people. Later it falls
- 600AD
- In Europe cities decline because of the Dark Age
- 1300AD
- Cities in South America grow in Aztec and Inca Empire
- 1400AD
- European population in cities decline because f the Black Death
- 1400AD
- Cities in South America grow in Aztec and Inca Empire
- 1300AD
- In Europe cities decline because of the Dark Age
- 600AD
- Rome is the first city to reach 1 million people. Later it falls
- 300AD
- Cities at the center of the Greek Empire and Roman Empire grow
- 2000BC
- Usually by river eg Nile Tigiric and Euphrates. As the supplied a good supple of water
- 2000BC
- Cities at the center of the Greek Empire and Roman Empire grow
- Loads of food many people move in and learn new skills
- Cities at the center of the Greek Empire and Roman Empire grow
- 2000BC
- First cities appear in Egypt, the Middle East, India and Chivas
- 4000BC
- Slums
- Crowded urban area where people live in inadequate housing and living conditions
- Lack
- Clean water supply
- reliable sanitation
- Reliable electricity
- Waste collection
- Roads and streetlights
- Over 1 billion people live in slums
- Causes
- Rural-urban migration
- Unemployment
- Poor urban planning
- Poor infrastructure
- UK
- Types of Urbanisation
- Re-urbanisation
- Aims
- Bring derelict lands and buildings back to use
- Build new homes
- Encourage investment in a new job
- Improve quality of life for residents
- Improve environment
- Aims
- sub urbanisation
- Move out of of the city into residental areas
- Causes
- High population density and congestion
- Less Pollution
- Cheaper
- Idea better life near countryside
- Easier to get to and from work nowadays
- Urban Sprawl
- Caused green belt in 1947
- Urban Sprawl
- Counter urbanisation
- Old urban areas neglected and deteriorated
- Re-urbanisation
- Birmingham
- population 1,100,000
- Transport
- air
- good access to country and world
- rail
- good access to country and world
- road
- air
- Connections to world
- Balti curry was invented here, with origins from Pakistan
- Jewellery Quarter is largest jewellery quarter in Europe
- 12,000 international students study in Birmingham
- Bullring
- Types of Urbanisation
- An Urban World
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