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How has innovation affected urbanization and the population growth of megacities. Describe both positives and negatives?
Mega City Tokyo
Tokyo has a population of 37,843,000 people in 2016
Cutting edge innovation with transportation and renewable energy
Tokyo is the biggest city in the world by population and size
How has it improved urbanization?
-More people and goods can travel around the cities and the whole world
-Since everyone can get to where they need to go faster that make the rhythm of society move faster improving the economy and efficiency of the whole world
-This allows workers to work in place not very as accessible but because of these train lines they can
-Allowed more people to reach the cities from father areas increasing the cities population
Tokyo MetroHas 13 different lines connecting to all of Tokyo
There are 3 main companies in Tokyo
130 on JR line, 160 on Tokyo metro lines, 190 on Toei lines
Increases speed of transport because trains have been proven to be faster than cars because of poor road design all revolving around the center of the city
Decreases pollution since the introduction of the first few lines in 1935 the air pollution has kept going down
37,049,181 daily 13,522,951,065 annually
Tokyo MetroDecreases pollution since the introduction of the first few lines in 1935 the air pollution has kept going down
Tokyo Bus system
Not as effective as the metro because of less volume of people who use them
200 yen ride
Used mainly for airport transport, long distance travel, and places without metro in walking distance
NegativesPublic transportation cannot take you everywhere
Even though it produce low carbon foot print their is still some
Improvement of human transport is good, but the goods can’t ride your great metro system
Buses increase traffic on the roads
How has it improved urbanization?
-It has decreased the amount of pollution being produced because of the decrease in used of non-eco friendly energy sources like fossil fuels
-Allowed an increase in available energy at or disposal
Renewable EnergyTokyo is planning on having 20% of it’s energy be renewable
energy by 2020
Starting a project to introduce solar panel and solar water heating to many houses all crossed Tokyo
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