Rapid urbanisation has caused a variety of problems‚ including transport congestion‚ lack of sufficient homes and living conditions‚ sanitary and health care issues‚ and crime. For all these problems‚ city planners have attempted potential solutions‚ each with varying degrees of success. Cities including London‚ Manila and Mumbai have several of the aforementioned problems‚ and have each tried their own potential solutions. This essay will discuss how successful these schemes have been in resolving
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Kumar- 10F4 Where is Mumbai located? _(SPACE)_ Mumbai is located in the state of Maharashtra‚ India. How has the former _ENVIRONMENT_ of swamps and marshes been _CHANGED_ to accommodate slum neighbourhoods? The former environments of swamps and marshes have been covered up to accommodate the establishment of slums on top of them. Describe the living conditions in the _PLACE_ you see in the photograph. Compare this with your current living conditions. The first thing you notice is the home of a
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60% of the population in Mumbai are estimated to live in Slums‚ the largest of which is quite near the city centre and is known as Dharavi. Here the homes are made out of materials that people have found such as corrugated iron and wood. Over time people upgrade their housing to make it more substantial as they are able to afford to. The buildings
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Slum Dog In the film slumdog they’re had happen to be a whole lot of misfortunate events and stress into living a better life. The movie showed that to get through life you have to first get through obstacles to reach success. Jamal and his brother Salim were born and raised in Dharavi slums of Mumbai‚ India. The whole slum area seemed to be rough and nasty. I couldn’t imagine how life they’re could be. When a whole attack happened at the slum the violators had knocked out Salim and Jamal’s mother
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live in poverty Massive slums such as Dharavi have grown in the city (Dharavi’s population is 1 million) Increasing informal sector Average incomes are very low Fresh water is contaminated Sustainable Future? VISION MUMBAI Boost economic growth by 8 – 10% by focussing on services (create 200‚000 new service jobs) Upgrade infrastructure e.g. education/ water etc Increase housing availability Improve transport infrastructure Sell the land occupied by the slums and redevelop it – new high
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10a) Suggest reasons for the changes shown in the size and distribution of megacities Megacities‚ with a population of at least 10 million‚ have grown in number to 26 in 2009. This is because of the general growth in world population and especially the g r o w t h in NICs such as India‚ Brazil and Indonesia. Their Economic growth has increased rapidly due to industrialisation which has encouraged rural-urban migration to escape rural poverty. This has increased the size of some megacities to
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The hit-film slumdog millionaire is a well-known film about three children from the slums. Many people have watched this film‚ and although its storyline is thrilling‚ the perceptions it gives about India as a whole being poor and dirty and that everyone is a thief‚ killer or prostitute are misleading; although the slums are poor and dirty‚ not everyone in India lives in a slum. Not everyone who does live in a slum is a thief and will do anything for money‚ and many people in India are well-enough
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iron and any other materials that can be bought cheap. Some houses have dangerous materials such as asbestos and are very dangerous for these people. In Dharavi a slum in Mumbai‚ Most families all live in one house and use each room for many things such as eating on their floor ‚ sleeping on their floor etc. Developers sometimes bull doze slums and rebuild over them. However they offer the people replacement houses by creating many small units for families who have lost their homes. Traffic Infrastructure-
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CLIMATE 4 CULTURE 4 CHRONIC RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS IN MUMBAI: 5 Gas Chembur: 5 South Bombay: 5 New Bombay: 5 Crowded city 6 Chemical related disasters in past 10 years. 6 MIGRANTS IN MUMBAI 6 THE SLUMS OF MUMBAI 7 History of Slums: 7 The Birth of Slums 7 Situation prevailing in slums 8 GLOBAL WARMING 10 Global warming in Mumbai. 10 NOISE POLLUTION 11 Sources of noise pollution 11 How to reduce the noise pollution 12 INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION 13 Case study of industrial pollution 14
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With reference to examples‚ assess the degree to which the level of economic development of a country affects planning and management in urban areas. Planning and management needs to happen in all countries over the world because no matter how different the level of development between countries the problems will be same in urban areas. These problems that need to be planned and managed in the urban areas of the city are becoming increasingly significant due to the fact that there has been a hug
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