Air pollution damages health, buildings and there are more accidents
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Solutions to reduce traffic
Improve public transport, increase city parking charges so people are more likely to use busses, bus priority lanes speeds them up, pedestrianisation removes traffic from the main shopping areas.
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What is a squatter settlement?
Settlements built in and around cities illegally by people who cannot afford proper housing
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What do problems can squatter settlements cause?
Increases spread of disease, reduces life expectancy, makes it dangerous
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What is the housing like?
Poorly built, dangerous, built out of rubbish
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What are self help schemes?
Supplies for buildings so people can build better housing, money saved on labour can provide basic services
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Site and service schemes
People pay rent and can borrow money for materials and profits provide basic services
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Local authority schemes
Improving temporary accommodation
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Name the 5 ways for cities to become more sustainable
reduce waste and safe disposal, conserve natural environments and historic buildings, building on brown-field sites, building carbon neutral homes (e.g. solar panels), efficient public transport
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What is rural-urban migration?
Movement of people from countryside to cities
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Give a cause of rural-urban migration in poor countries
Shortage of services eg, schools and hospitals. More jobs available in the city-better quality of life
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Give a cause of rural-urban migration in rich countries
Industrial and agricultural revolutions-jobs in factories in urban area. Redevelopment of urban areas
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What does CBD stand for?
Central business district
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What is the main land use in the CBD?
Shopping centres,
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Explain what the rural urban fringe is
The part at the edge of a city where there are urban and rural land uses eg. factories and farms.
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Give a reason for ethnic segregation in urban areas.
People prefer to live close to people of the same ethnic background, live near cultural services eg. places of worship
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What is the informal sector of the economy?
Jobs are not taxed or monitored by the government and people often work long hours with little pay
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What is meant by a sustainable city?
Cities that are environmentally friendly and are living in a way that people now have the things they need but does not hinder future generations
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What effects does air pollution have?
acid rain, health problems eg. headaches and bronchitis, destroy the ozone layer
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What effects does water pollution have?
Kills fish therefore disrupts the food chain, chemicals can poison human who eat fish from polluted water, spread of diseases
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How can air and water pollution be managed?
Air quality standards and checks, sewage treatment plant and laws
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Front
Solutions to reduce traffic
Back
Improve public transport, increase city parking charges so people are more likely to use busses, bus priority lanes speeds them up, pedestrianisation removes traffic from the main shopping areas.
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