Human

• Birmingham


  • West midlands
  • Population 1.1m
  • Railway: 34m 2014
  • 8000 acres of park and open space
  • Airport 4m 2014
  • 300 companies from outside Uk
  • 5 universities
  • Bullring 160 shops
  • Unemployment sf 3.1% sb 24.5%
  • Average household income sf £40000 sb £21000
• Mumbai


  • West coast of mahatashtra state
  • Arabian Sea
  • Population 20m
  • 3m people commute to Mumbai for work
  • Hindi film industry, Bollywood
  • Major transport hub
  • Receives largest foreign investment
  • 3 million- 20 million (1950 and 2020)
• Dharavi


  • 1.2 million
  • Freshwater for 2 hours a day
  • 1 toilet per 500 people
  • Life expectancy under 60 years old
  • Rag pickers, collect waste and reuse
• Antarctica


  • South of Antarctic circle
  • 98% covered in ice, rest rock
  • Antarctic peninsula: 70km wide, mountains
  • -50 degrees Celsius to -90
  • Annual wind speed 50mph
  • 1994 IWC established area where whaling was banned: japan opposed
  • Russians exploit souther oceans for species: krill (omega 3)
  • Visited by tourists every 3 days
• Banana trade


  • Consumers: Brazil, china
  • Exports: Costa Rica, Ecuador
  • Imports: USA, china, Germany
  • Latin America and Caribbean: 80% export
  • US and EU: consume 30%
  • 2 tones of forests lost for every 1 tonne of bananas produced
  • Ecuador $400 per month: minimum wage
  • Child labour: workers as young as 8
  • Trade wars
• Apple facts

  • 5 data centres in China
  • Shenzen
  • 137,000 employees in 22 different countries
  • 511 stores in USA
  • 115 stores in UK
  • HQ in Apple Park, California
  • 6,000 workers in Ireland
  • WiFi chip production in Asia
  • Foxconn pays £1.20 per hour
  • Foxconn employees work 62 hours per week
• Stratford

  -       Newham

  -       Westfield 350 shops

  -       Stations well connected

  -       £9m invested in regeneration

  -       8000 athletes housed

  -       £17b invested in transport links

  -       Olympic £10m extra for Uk economy

  -       Olympic stadium £701m

  -       Game produced 3.3m tonnes of carbon
• London docklands

  • Decline of docklands: containerisation: shut down which led to lack of employment
  • property led urban regeneration
  • spend public money to buy land with power of compulsory purchase: attract private investment
• hulme

  • ex industrial city: mass decline from 1960s- 80s
  • had slums but were demolished with high rise towers: no sense of community.
  • led to Manchester becoming more deprived and led to anti social behaviour.
  • 2000s replaced by 2 storey houses.
  • regeneration: new road infrastructure, 3000 homes built, shopping area and community facilities.
• Copenhagen sustainability

  • first carbon neutral city
  • most people work 40 hours a week: lowers stress levels
  • 250 miles of cycle lanes
  • economic and financial centre of Denmark
  • harbour has been transformed, clean so people can swim in it.
  • 99% carbon neutral
  • educate children on climate change
• dhakas air pollution

  • capital of Bangladesh
  • vehicle emission
• Singapore waste management

  • large population: 7.5 million tonnes of waste
  • incineration reduces 90% of waste
  • dont have space for landfills so heavily Ely on 4 of their incineration points
  • ash created is filtered from air pollutants
  • incineration produces 3% of singapores energy
  • 2% sent to landfill, 38% incinerated, 60% recycled
• china river

  • Dredged the stream 1918, sanitation and flood risk.
  • 1930-50 urbanisation: problems with water quality
  • 1967 express way built, covered river, pollution drained by surfaces, prevented evapotranspiration
  • restoration 18.1 m visitors but 2008, vegatation reduced UHI, flood protection for up to 200 years.
• History of Stratford

  • 1820 first dock was built: transport hub
  • 1839 railway station built
  • 1850 people working in rail station: neeed more housing
  • 1860 more people living and working in area
  • 1900 de industrialisation: mass unemployment: deprivation
  • 2006 olympics regeneration began
• southbourne

  • population 9900
  • average age 49
  • ethnicity 92% white British
  • retired 71.8%
  • east physical geography, west residential
  • highstreet works against homogenisation
  • independent businesses such as sobo
  • £18 million from government to regenerate: get rid of bistro
  • harlequin homes