Urban Zones
The area of a city with tall buildings
What is the CBD
A city with over 10 million inhabitants
What is a mega city
The location in a large city where there is makeshift housing that is not owned by its inhabitants
Slum, squatter communtiy, or shanty town
The type of land you are building on, if you are building something for the first time
What is greenfield
One way Singapore has tried to address transportation issues
ONe of:
MRT / public transportation
Toll roads
High cost of operating car
The name of concentric model of land use whereby land value decreases as you move outward
What is the Burgess model
The outward spread of an urban area characterised by low density housing
What is suburbanisation?
The sector of the economy with very little pay where people will do anything to make a small amount of money
One advantage of building on a greenfield site
Cheaper land, more land, custom built, good transportation links, good access to raw materials
What is redevelopment
The area in an urban area where there are detached houses with garages and gardens
What are the suburbs
Commuting
What is... When you live in a different location to where you work requiring you to travel in to your job
Two challenges facing developed cities
Any two of: food, energy, transport and waste disposal demands, concentrated resource consumption, segregation
One way Singapore has tried to address segregation
What is housing board quotas
One way "waste" is being dealt with in Kibera sustainably
what is a biolatrine or burning of human waste for energy
Three different uses of the land in the rural urban fringe
Any three of :
residential, science parks, leisure space such as golf courses, industrial parks, business parks, large retail malls
When a number of once independent towns join together as a result of outward growth or urban sprawl
what is conurbation
a standard of living below a reasonable minimum of the majority people
deprivation
The type of scheme where slum dwellers are given land outside the slum and some training and a loan to build their own homes in a new location
What is a site and service scheme
self help scheme
What is when you give people the tools and training to improve their current homes and possibly low-interest loans may be used to help people fund these changes.
Explain how the bid rent theory and the peak land value theory are different.
Bid rent explains land values decrease as you move away from the CBD whereas with the peak land value theory the land value, even if it is far away from the CBD, will increase in value the closer it is to intersections of transportation routes.
This phenomena makes it less expensive to live in the city because there are more people to share the costs.
What is economies of scale
The reasons why ethnic or socioeconomic segregation is considered a problem in developed cities
What is because segregation leads to further inequality as less wealthy areas may have less access to healthcare provision, "good" schools, healthy restaurants, safety, green spaces, clean air / water
One reason why developed cities have such large eco footprints, and one solution to try to reduce it.
well off populations use a lot of energy - cars, phones, appliances - generate a lot of waste, use a lot of water, travel by plane
They can also afford green technology such as hybrid cars, energy efficient appliances, climate smart architecture, efficient public transportation, greening the city for carbon dioxide absorption...
The link / relationship between local government, businesses, residents, and non-profit organisations in managing sustainability in cities