Challenges of an urbanising world 2

What is urbanisation

• A rise in the percentage of people living in an urban area

• A rise in the total population of a city

• The spread of cites into the countryside

• An increase in the amount of people living in villages

What is a conurbation?

• A big city

• A small city

• A city that has grown big enough to merge with other towns or cities

• Building built in a straight line along a road

What is urban primacy?

• A city full of monkeys

• The mayor of a city

• A clothes retailer

• A city that has more influence than its size suggests

How big is the population of a megacity?

• 100,000

• 1,000,000

• 10,000,000

• 100,000,000

Why one of these is not a reason for the population decline of Detroit?

• De-industrialisation

• White flight

• Crime

• High house prices

What is your case study for a megacity in an emerging country?

• India

• Mumbai

• London

• Bihar

Which of these is not a reason for suburbanisation in and around New York City?

• Railway bridges and the subway

• Road bridges

• Lower land values further away from the CBD

• Fear of earthquakes

What is a brownfield site?

• A field that has been ploughed

• A site that has never been built on

• A site that has been built on in the past

• An area of the floodplain

What is informal housing?

• House where you don't have to knock to go inside.

• Housed where you don't need to wear a jacket to dinner

• Houses that have been planned and have government permission

• Houses that poor people build themselves on unwanted land

Which of these is not a reason why people choose to move out of Mumbai to live in Navi Mumbai?

• Less air pollution

• Fast rail links to the city

• Less water pollution and disease

• To avoid the 20Twenty Cricket