Cities Face A Range Of Social And Environmental Challenges Resulting From Rapid Growth And Resource Demands
Overview
Why is the department store in the centre and the steelworks on the ring road? Why does the same city contain both a street of eight-million-pound houses and a settlement built by its own residents from salvaged materials? Urban land use is not random, and the rules behind it are learnable.
You will work out how locational needs, accessibility and land values sort activities across a city, then examine what a wealthy city and a rapidly growing one each struggle with. London's problems are those of concentrated consumption: food, energy, transport and waste on an enormous scale, plus deep segregation. Mumbai's are those of growth outrunning supply. Both are real, and both need to be described precisely, with named places and figures.
Objectives
- Factors affecting urban land use patterns: locational needs, accessibility, land values
- Urban challenges in a named developed country: food, energy, transport and waste disposal demands, concentrated resource consumption, segregation
- Urban challenges in a named developing country or emerging country: squatter settlements, informal economy, urban pollution, and low quality of life
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- Why do the tallest buildings in a city usually stand in the central business district? A) Building regulations require height in the centre B) Land values are highest there, so building upwards gains more floor space from an expensive site C) The bedrock is only strong enough in the centre D) Central sites are the largest available Answer: B
- Which of these is a characteristic of the informal economy? A) Work is registered, taxed and regulated B) Workers receive contracts and pensions C) Work requires little capital to enter but offers no legal protection D) It is confined to agriculture Answer: C
- Approximately what proportion of Greater Mumbai's population lives in informal or squatter settlements? A) 5 per cent B) 15 per cent C) 40 per cent D) 80 per cent Answer: C
- Which factor best explains why heavy industry locates on the edge of a city rather than in the centre? A) It needs high pedestrian footfall B) It needs large, flat, cheap sites with good road access C) Central land is legally reserved for housing D) Workers refuse to travel to the centre Answer: B
- Why is London's household recycling rate lower than the England average? A) Londoners produce less waste overall B) Many residents live in flats with no space to store separated materials, and housing turnover is high C) London has no recycling collection service D) London sends most of its waste to landfill Answer: B
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