URBS 230 FINAL EXAM
3 major components in urban water infrastructure - ✔️✔️1. water supply system
2. storm water system
- country: storm water gets absorbed by the soil and runs in the ground
- city: streets & buildings seal the soil, which allows little water into the ground
3. wastewater system
Canada's urban water infrastructure - ✔️✔️- treated, accessible water
- controlled by the municipal government
Montreal - ✔️✔️- MTL is losing 50% of their water supply due to cracked pipes
- 1890: the st. Lawrence river became its main water source
- reservoir & aqueduct canal
- water treatment plan on Atwater
Liberal Market Economy - ✔️✔️the most laissez- faire
Coordinated Market Economy - ✔️✔️a system of coordinating through a variety of
other means in addition to market signals
centrally planned economy - ✔️✔️no privately-owned properties
Transition economy - ✔️✔️theres a raid shift to create a new economy
nationalization - ✔️✔️public takeover of infrastructures
ex. hydro-quebec taking over all electricity/ water supply
Global Cities - ✔️✔️- highly concentrated command points
- key locations for finance and firms
- sites of production
- markets for products and innovations
Why people migrate to global cities - ✔️✔️- there are more natural resources
- higher level of innovation and activity
- that there were already people there
- the ability to make a lot of money and flourish their business
New York City - ✔️✔️- made the USA the centre of economic activity
- increasing the labour division
ex. banking, insurance, sales, entertainment, transportation
- had become the largest city at the end of WW2
Leaders of Global Cities - ✔️✔️London
, Tokyo
NYC
The World Bank - ✔️✔️- designed to provide loans for infrastructure projects (roads
and buildings)
- created after WW2
- 1970: began lending money to countries in the global south that had a lack of funds
- people are considered poor if the make less than $1 US per day
Polarization - ✔️✔️the distribution of income being pulled apart to high and low payed
territorial dispersal - ✔️✔️- a need for expanded central control
Urban South - ✔️✔️- less developed/ developing world used to refer to areas of lower
income who are experiencing rapid economic growth
Global South - ✔️✔️- basic needs aren't met: clean water, waste removal, health
services
- lack of government support
spatial differentials - ✔️✔️low to middle income differentials in the physical
environment of housing which have some effect on people's health
Laissez-faire - ✔️✔️- Idea that the government should play as small a role as possible
in economic affairs.
- people are focused on making money and becoming someone wealthy
Communism - ✔️✔️the government gets rid of capitalists, replaces them with workers
and abolishes private properties.
Liberalism - ✔️✔️- shouldn't be equality in wealth
- capitalists should be able to make as much money as they want
Socialism - ✔️✔️get ride of private firms and allow the government to take over
Neo-liberalism - ✔️✔️- privatization of land, housing and infrastructure
- our society should be more competitive and have more freedom
- encourage more private and profit-making activity
Bangladesh - ✔️✔️- informal settlements
- low income people buildings illegal settlement in restricted areas
Nairobi - ✔️✔️- mortality rates are lower which suggests the living conditions are better
3 major components in urban water infrastructure - ✔️✔️1. water supply system
2. storm water system
- country: storm water gets absorbed by the soil and runs in the ground
- city: streets & buildings seal the soil, which allows little water into the ground
3. wastewater system
Canada's urban water infrastructure - ✔️✔️- treated, accessible water
- controlled by the municipal government
Montreal - ✔️✔️- MTL is losing 50% of their water supply due to cracked pipes
- 1890: the st. Lawrence river became its main water source
- reservoir & aqueduct canal
- water treatment plan on Atwater
Liberal Market Economy - ✔️✔️the most laissez- faire
Coordinated Market Economy - ✔️✔️a system of coordinating through a variety of
other means in addition to market signals
centrally planned economy - ✔️✔️no privately-owned properties
Transition economy - ✔️✔️theres a raid shift to create a new economy
nationalization - ✔️✔️public takeover of infrastructures
ex. hydro-quebec taking over all electricity/ water supply
Global Cities - ✔️✔️- highly concentrated command points
- key locations for finance and firms
- sites of production
- markets for products and innovations
Why people migrate to global cities - ✔️✔️- there are more natural resources
- higher level of innovation and activity
- that there were already people there
- the ability to make a lot of money and flourish their business
New York City - ✔️✔️- made the USA the centre of economic activity
- increasing the labour division
ex. banking, insurance, sales, entertainment, transportation
- had become the largest city at the end of WW2
Leaders of Global Cities - ✔️✔️London
, Tokyo
NYC
The World Bank - ✔️✔️- designed to provide loans for infrastructure projects (roads
and buildings)
- created after WW2
- 1970: began lending money to countries in the global south that had a lack of funds
- people are considered poor if the make less than $1 US per day
Polarization - ✔️✔️the distribution of income being pulled apart to high and low payed
territorial dispersal - ✔️✔️- a need for expanded central control
Urban South - ✔️✔️- less developed/ developing world used to refer to areas of lower
income who are experiencing rapid economic growth
Global South - ✔️✔️- basic needs aren't met: clean water, waste removal, health
services
- lack of government support
spatial differentials - ✔️✔️low to middle income differentials in the physical
environment of housing which have some effect on people's health
Laissez-faire - ✔️✔️- Idea that the government should play as small a role as possible
in economic affairs.
- people are focused on making money and becoming someone wealthy
Communism - ✔️✔️the government gets rid of capitalists, replaces them with workers
and abolishes private properties.
Liberalism - ✔️✔️- shouldn't be equality in wealth
- capitalists should be able to make as much money as they want
Socialism - ✔️✔️get ride of private firms and allow the government to take over
Neo-liberalism - ✔️✔️- privatization of land, housing and infrastructure
- our society should be more competitive and have more freedom
- encourage more private and profit-making activity
Bangladesh - ✔️✔️- informal settlements
- low income people buildings illegal settlement in restricted areas
Nairobi - ✔️✔️- mortality rates are lower which suggests the living conditions are better
