Mumbai

• an urban area is a built up man made environment
• migration is the movement of population from one area to another
• rural urban migration is the movement of people from the countryside to urban areas
• push factors are bad things making people move away from an area
• pull factors are good things that make people want to move into an area
• LICs are seeing the highest rates of urbanisation
• mumbai is the commercial and financial capital of india
• mumbai handles approximately 60% of all indias sea trade
• mumbai contributes to 40% of the total income to the whole state of maharastra
• mumbai is home to the biggest cultural industry in asia - Bollywood
• Bollywood is the worlds largest film industry
• migration into mumbai is estimated at 1 person per minute
• as most of the migrants into mumbai are young adults, they will have children within 10 years of settling down in mumbai so there is a high natural increase
• Mumbai is on the west coast of india facing the arabian sea. in the maharastra state
• traffic is very congested and chaotic in mumbai
• railways in mumbai are unsafe and unreliable, 6000 deaths on trains occur in mumbai a year
• the largest slum in asia is located in mumbai named dharavi
• in dharavi, the power system is weak and the water is only on for 2 hours a day
• in dharavi there is no sewage system
• apartments in dharavi are built very high because there is no space otherwise
• to get a free apartment from the SRA, you must be able to prove that you have lived in the slum for 20 years or more
• there are over 1000 primary and secondary schools in mumbai
• mumbai literacy rates are higher than the national average (90% / 74%)
• Mumbai has a world-renowned university
• In areas, 1 in 20 people are estimated to have to use the street as a toilet
• over 300 community toilet blocks have been built, housing over 5000 toilets
• the mumbai slum sanitation project aims to improve sanitation facilities over mumbai
• many squatter settlements do not have access to electricity and rely on bottled gas for cooking and heating. this is expensive and very dangerous
• there can be up to 5 people living in 1 room in dharavi
• houses in dharavi tend to have no windows, and can have asbestos roofs
• dharavi has many small businesses such as recycling plastics, making leather goods and printing t-shirts
• informal employment accounts for around half of all jobs in india
• wages in dharavi are low but there is little unemployment
• 80% of all waste is recycled in mumbai
• bottom up improvement is when people get help to improve the conditions of the slums
• top down improvement is where slums are demolished and new housing is built instead
• the building of new apartments can be negative because the accommodation will be very small and cramped
• the building of new apartments in mumbai can be positive because clean water can be piped to every house
• the building of apartments can be positive because organised waste collection services can be offered
• urbanisation is the process by which an increasing percentage of the city's population comes to live in towns and cities