1. What is urbanisation? 2. What are push and pull factors that encourage movement to cities? 3. Where are the world’s largest cities? 4. What are the urban problems associated with city growth? 5. What is Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, like? 6. What are slum settlements? 7. What are Brazilian favelas? 8. What are some of the challenges associated with favela growth?
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Answer:
1) Urbanisation is an increase in the number of people living in towns and cities .
Explanation:
2) Rural push factors include poverty, inequitable land distribution, environmental degradation, high vulnerability to natural disasters, and violent conflicts while urban pull factors include better employment and education opportunities, higher income, diverse services, and less social discrimination in the cities.
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4) Intensive urban growth can lead to greater poverty, with local governments unable to provide services for all people.Urban development can magnify the risk of environmental hazards such as flash flooding. Pollution and physical barriers to root growth promote loss of urban tree cover.
6)slums are settlements, neighborhoods, or city regions that cannot provide the basic living conditions necessary for its inhabitants, or slum dwellers, to live in a safe and healthy environment.
7) shantytown located within or on the outskirts of the country's large cities, especially Rio de Janeiro.
8) Rates of unemployment in favelas are high, while those who are working typically earn a low wage. Crime rates in some favelas are very high. Drugs and violent crime are widespread problems. As many poor quality houses are built on the side of the hills in Rio they are at risk of landslides.
Explanation:
1. Urbanisation is an increase in the number of people living in towns and cities. Urbanisation occurs mainly because people move from rural areas to urban areas and it results in growth in the size of the urban population and the extent of urban areas.
2. Rural push factors include poverty, inequitable land distribution, environmental degradation, high vulnerability to natural disasters, and violent conflicts while urban pull factors include better employment and education opportunities, higher income, diverse services, and less social discrimination in the cities
3. Rank Urban Area Population Estimate (2015) Country Land Area: Km2 Density
1 Tokyo-Yokohama 37,843,000 Japan 8,547 4,400
2 Jakarta 30,539,000 Indonesia 3,225 9,500
3 Delhi, DL-UP-HR 24,998,000 India 2,072 12,100
4 Manila 24,123,000 Philippines 1,580 15,300
5 Seoul-Incheon 23,480,000 South Korea 2,266 10,400
6 Shanghai, SHG-JS-ZJ 23,416,000 China 3,820 6,100
7 Karachi 22,123,000 Pakistan 945 23,400
8 Beijing, BJ 21,009,000 China 3,820 5,500
4. Threats. Intensive urban growth can lead to greater poverty, with local governments unable to provide services for all people. ... Urban development can magnify the risk of environmental hazards such as flash flooding. Pollution and physical barriers to root growth promote loss of urban tree cover.
5 .Rio de Janeiro is a huge seaside city in Brazil, famed for its Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, 38m Christ the Redeemer statue atop Mount Corcovado and for Sugarloaf Mountain, a granite peak with cable cars to its summit. The city is also known for its sprawling favelas (shanty towns). Its raucous Carnaval festival, featuring parade floats, flamboyant costumes and samba dancers, is considered the world’s largest.
6. slums are settlements, neighborhoods, or city regions that cannot provide the basic living conditions necessary for its inhabitants, or slum dwellers, to live in a safe and healthy environment.
7. Favela, also spelled favella, in Brazil, a slum or shantytown located within or on the outskirts of the country’s large cities, especially Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. A favela typically comes into being when squatters occupy vacant land at the edge of a city and construct shanties of salvaged or stolen materials
8. Rates of unemployment in favelas are high, while those who are working typically earn a low wage. Crime rates in some favelas are very high. Drugs and violent crime are widespread problems. As many poor quality houses are built on the side of the hills in Rio they are at risk of landslides.