LEDC Urban Migration

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LEDC Urban Migration

• Rapid Urbanisation
• Migrants to cities cannot afford housing
• Forced to build temporary accommodation
• Shanty towns or favelas (Brazil) or bustees
  (India)?

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LEDC Cities growing fast

• High birth rates (limited birth control, lack of
  family planning)?
• Large families usually more prosperous
• Infant mortality remains high more births
  compensate for loss
• Religions promote large families
• Falling death rate
• In past high rate counterbalanced with high
  birth rate
• Today death rates falling as sanitation and
  clean water supply steadily improve
• Population explosion (3 times higher for LEDCs
  than MEDCs)?

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Migration to cities
Push factors things wrong with the countryside,
force people to leave Pull factors things that
attract someone to the city to enable them to
improve lifestyles
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Shanty Towns

• Houses made from scrap materials such as wood
  and metal sheeting.
• Often no services e.g. Water, sanitation or
  electricity
• Settlements are usually overcrowded
• Sao Paulo in Brazil

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