particularly significant problem for girls and women who in many cultures have been assigned the job of bringing water to the household. Transportation‚ drainage‚ and acceptable access roads are vital to incorporate marginalized and peripheral settlements in the market and the urban fabric. In the face of economic slowdowns and growing inequalities‚ encouraging local development must contain the requirement
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Challenges Facing Mega-cities Access to Formal and Informal Employment There are high levels of unemployment and under-employment in all the mega-cities of the developing world. This is because there just aren’t enough jobs in urban markets to account for the vast number of people requiring them. It is estimated by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) that 20-25% of adults in urban areas of developing world cities are without regular employment. Jobs are desperately needed for people
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reduce the amount of traffic entering city centres.I can describe three environmental problems caused by rapid city growth in the developing world.I can explain how squatter settlements can be improved to become proper residential areas.I am able to give three ways to make urban living more sustainable.Case studiesA Squatter settlement redevelopment I can give name and location characteristics changes and improvements made why it was possible and the results.B Sustainable urban living I can give location
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In developing countries such as: India‚ Brazil and Kenya‚ shantytowns are hugely common and are a very controversial topic. These shantytowns provide affordable houses for thousands of poor‚ destitute and desperate people who without these ‘illegal’ communities would be homeless. However‚ despite this‚ the government has not approved these communities and the land they take is not theirs to live on. This has led to an interesting debate on whether the government can make the settlers in the shanty
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Settlers‚ where Black Hawk‚ a Sac Indian war chief‚ conveys his life story to try and justify his actions in the Black Hawk war against the American settlers‚ and an Encounter between Omaha Hunters and White Squatters in Iowa‚ where a hostile encounter between Omaha Hunters and White Squatters was the result of dramatically different conceptions of landownership amongst them. Tecumseh‚ a Shawnee diplomat and warrior‚ saw his homeland being invaded by white settlers and believed that only a pan-Indian
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Disparities in Wealth and Development The eight Millennium Development Goals are: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger: MDG is trying to cut the number of people living off $1 in half. Overall poverty rates fell from 46% in 1990 to 27% in 2005 in developing regions‚ and progress in many developing countries is being sustained. 2. Achieve universal primary education: MDG is trying to increase the number of educated people in the world. They state that they think this goal will
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of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime Urbanization- movement of people from rural areas to urban areas Urban Primary- a city that dominates the urban system and is the center of economic‚ political and cultural life Squatter settlements- makeshift housing on land not legally owned Nation state- relatively homogeneous cultural group with its own political territory Culture-Learned or shared behavior by a group of people empowering them with a distinct "way of life" Cultural
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Urban environments - Geography URBANISATION: a process where an increasing proportion of the population lives in towns and cities‚ and there is a reduction of people living in rural areas URBAN REGENERATION: Slum clearance: the removal of old‚ port quality housing Peripheral housing estates: new estates on the edges of towns Regeneration and modernisation: upgrading of existing housing stock CAUSES: Rural urban migration: This is because of push-pull factors: for example people came
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Art Exhibition Assignment | Yuvan Naidoo 12C | Gallery: Everard Read Gallery. Location of Gallery: Jan Smuts Avenue‚ Johannesburg. This Gallery is a Contemporary gallery. When I visited the gallery on 11 March 2013‚ the gallery was mainly exhibiting works by Keith Joubert and Dylan Lewis along with a few other interesting artists. The gallery was exhibiting a wide variety of paintings and sculptures including mixed media‚ sculptures and furniture. Reason for choosing exhibition: I had
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RoopKaran Singh Mr.Beckworth HIST B18 25 October 2024. 1. For thousands of years‚ Native Californians‚ before the Spanish arrived‚ lived as close to an earthly paradise as possible. Explain the adage of the adage. ( Ch. 2) I watched the video. I skipped this because I saw that Compare and contrast the lives of the mission Indians with those of the wealthy Californios. How did secularization of the missions hurt the Natives‚ but helped the Californios? ( Ch. 8. The lives of the mission Indians and
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