Geography, urban future, case studies, Mumbai
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- Created on: 12-04-22 15:18
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- Mumbai
- challenges Mumbai faces
- High population
- slums are at the edge of the city and in the center
- 68% of Mumbai's workforce is unemployed by the formal sector
- Mumbai's hospitals are understaffed by 26% of health care workers and 44% of doctors
- Mumbai's roads are congested and poorly maintained
- many residents do not own a car and use trains to travel but they are overcrowded, with 8million people using them daily
- 41% of the population live in slums
- Costal areas have been littered due to inefficient waste schemes and littering
- the informal economy does not pay tax or is not regulated
- solutions and sustainability
- Bus rapid transport (BRT)
- this will help reduce the pressure on the trains
- be safer for pedestrians
- but it is still in the planning stages of development
- green spaces
- Business are take the lead in improving environments, without waiting for larger, city-wide initiatives.
- They create small green spaces
- Dharavi's recycling zone
- The UK recycles 23% of plastics unlike Mumbai which recycles 80%
- Women and children have to sit in the sun shifting through rubbish
- They earn around a £1 a day for their work.
- It is claimed Dharavi’s recycling zone the way forward to a sustainable future
- They recycle everything from cosmetics to computer keyboards
- Bus rapid transport (BRT)
- location , history and population
- Mumbai is a city on the west coast of central India
- It is made up of islands and the mainland close by
- It was known as Bombay during the British Empire rule, but before that was ruled as a Buddhist and Hindu centre as well as being taken over by the Portuguese
- The population of Mumbai has grown rapidly since the 1970s, although it has slowed down in recently, now the population has gotton to 18.41 million
- Most of the people moving to Mumbai are rural-urban migrants who move to city in hope of a better life
- Mumbai's slums
- Mumbai's slums have no electricity so people bring long cables that are trip hazards and can cause fires
- schools in slums are often overcrowded, leaving children unable to attend fulltime or at all
- This gives Mumbai an uneducated workforce
- They don't commonly have fresh running water
- unhygienic conditions and shared facilities mean disease spreads fast
- challenges Mumbai faces
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