world cities
- Created by: elizabeth
- Created on: 14-01-14 11:13
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- WORLD CITIES
- Urbanisation
- the causes of urban growth:
- push- natural disasters, absence of agricultural land pull- casual work, services, employment
- Mumbai and Dharavi
- Slums
- issue: electricity, lack of education, disease, water, food, sanitation
- Sao Paulo
- 19 million people, 21000 per km, helipads due to dangerous for rich, 3 housing types- condominums, cortices and favelas
- improvements: site and service schemes
- 19 million people, 21000 per km, helipads due to dangerous for rich, 3 housing types- condominums, cortices and favelas
- the causes of urban growth:
- Suburbanisation
- the development of suburbs
- -why did people move out and effects of this
- consequences for the city, inner city, suburbs what was done about this
- the development of suburbs
- counter urbanisation
- whys it occured
- affluent people want to escape pollution, car ownership, people work from home, farmers fail with crop yield sell land make money
- st ives
- 25Km from Cambridge, 25% commute to London 50 minutes from Kings Cross,
- impacts- roads, noise traffic ghost towns rise in house prices
- whys it occured
- re-urbanisation
- gentrification
- rich people buy poor houses it is natural.
- Notting Hill
- average property is £million, carnival, market
- gentrification
- urban decline
- inner city deprivation
- sustainability
- waste management
- waste disposal- Nairobi Kenya
- essential for economy and everyday living. People scavenge food, car tyres for sandals, glass bottles are refilled.
- waste disposal- Nairobi Kenya
- transport management
- Manchester metro link
- opened in 1992, 73 stations, 25 million riders per year after expansion 45 million
- Manchester metro link
- waste management
- urban regeneration
- L.D.D.C
- Hulme
- Property led regeneration
- retailing and other services
- decentralisation
- Trafford centre
- Urbanisation
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