Chapter 13 Urban Patterns

Please watch the video above and answer the questions below in the response box. Remember to provide detailed descriptions, examples, and specific events from the video, thanks!

Slumming It Questions

  1. What are Diphtheria, Typhoid & Tuberculosis?

2. What is the problem with rats being not contained in urban areas? (consider the Black Death in Europe in 1346-49).

3. Dhobi Ghat – What are they? (Communal Washing Houses).

4. Religion appears to play an important part in the life of the city. What is the major religion and is their a rise of Islam?

5. 500 people per toilet – what is the problem with that? (exponential nature of the situation if a toilet breaks) 1-500 becomes 1-1000.

China’s Empty Cities

  1. Why does China have 64 million unoccupied homes? Explain a single paragraph in the response below, thanks!