A summary of the Bristol and Mumbai case study for GCSE geography, year 10 lessons. The opportunities and challenges both cities deal with. Includes notes on Dharavi slum, Bristol's harbourside and temple quarter regeneration projects, Freiburg's Sustainability, example of traffic in Freiburg and ...
Urban issues and challenges
Includes main case studies Bristol and Mumbai
Urbanization – the process of making an area more urban
Megacity - a very large city, typically one with a population over 10 million people
Factors affecting migration
Push factors Pull factors
-poverty -safe, less crime
-infertile land -higher employment
-civil war -good climate
-flooding -fertile land
-high crime -hope for a new life
-drought -political stability
-corrupt government -lower risk from natural
hazards
Brownfield site – land previously used for industry, which has fallen into decay
Greenfield site – land not previously used
Dereliction – land and buildings that have fallen into disuse
Quality of life – the standard of health, comfort, and happiness experienced by an individual or a
group.
Bristol is in South west England,
by the Bristol channel. It has
UK’s most centrally located deep
sea port. The medieval town of
Bristol was incorporated in
1155. By the 16th century Bristol
had become a major port, a
manufacturing town, and a
distribution centre for both Bristol in the 16th century
overseas and inland trade.
Bristol port
Bristol in the 21st century
,Timeline of key events in Bristol
, 7 challenges Bristol faces:
-changes in social urban deprivation
-quality of life
-building on brownfield and greenfield sites
-waste disposal
-urban sprawl on the rural urban fringe
-growth of commuter settlements
-social urban deprivation linked to dereliction
The cycle of urban decline
As a result of one of the things on
the list in the blue box or for
other reasons, a person may lose
their jobs. This means they are
less likely to spend money on
going to a restaurant for a night,
or going shopping. This means
the shops will run out of money
too and they will have to close.
They will also budget themselves
and spend less money, so more
people lose their jobs, and the
cycle continues.
Social urban deprivation linked to dereliction
Like in many
Urban deprivation cities
is often definedin theaUK
as having qualityit is below
of life possible to see
what is recognised as acceptable in a
modern office buildings
Mumbai) and expensive apartments
particular country. It is easy to recognise urban deprivation in cities in LICs (low-income countries), where
large slum areas (such as Dharavi, with sub-standard housing and problems of disease are easily
alongside run-down housing, boarded-up shops
seen. However, there are also significant differences in living conditions within andin HICs. (High
urban areas
income countries)
areas of dereliction. Due to industrial decline,
Like in many cities in the UK it is possible to see modern
concentrations of redundant industrial buildings and
office buildings and expensive apartments alongside run-
warehouses in Bristol have become rundown and
down housing, boarded-up shops and areas of dereliction.
derelict. The inner city area of Stokes Croft
Due to industrial decline, concentrations of redundant
consisted of high-density housing built in the 19 th
industrial buildings and warehouses in Bristol have become
century for industrial workers. After port industries
rundown and derelict. The inner city area of Stokes
moved downstream away from Bristol and closed
down the area became notorious for its derelict
housing and abandoned properties including Perry’s
Carriage Works (which is now a listed building).
Many empty houses have been taken over by
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