I will compare and contrast some of the problems experienced by the two mega cities, Lima and Tokyo. Two absolutely different cities located on two different continents, have to cope with some similar problems.

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I will compare and contrast some of the problems experienced by the two mega cities, Lima and Tokyo. Two absolutely different cities located on two different continents, have to cope with some similar problems.

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In the first part of this report I will compare and try to find similarities between problems experienced by this two cities.

In the second part I will contrast the problems.

You will see that for example the housing problem in Tokyo

is very different to the one in Lima.

The third part of the report will contain information about the attempts ,of the governments, of solving the problems.

The last part of the report will be the conclusion, which

Will contain my concluding statement

List of references and sources attached.

The problem of transport

The public transportation is run at the limit of its  safety and capacity in both cities . Public transport in Lima is mainly in the hands of large numbers of small enterprises. The owners of the small companies are using very small ,old and as a result of this, very dangerous vehicles. It is a well known fact that only the half of the employed drivers hold a driving license.

As in Tokyo so in Lima roads are congested and often in a state of near gridlock.

As for private transit, the automobile seems to be becoming an economically non-viable way of transportation.

The traffic congestions are  basically caused by structure of the road and bus routes.

When roads were planned, the cities were by far not as big as they are today. The growth of both cities and the rapid  increase of population has caused major traffic problems.

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Sources:

1) The mega-city in Latin America, by Alan Gilbert

  Article: “Lima: mega-city and mega-problem” ,part: transport

2) Emerging world cities in Pacific Asia by Fu-Chen Lo & Yue-man Yeung

   Article: “Changing Asia-Pacific world-cities”, part: New agglomeration       and “Tokyo problems”.

         

The growth

I think that the growth and enormous increase of population

is another serious problem. The cities were not prepared for such a flood of people coming into the cities and looking for homes and jobs. The rapid internationalisation brought unexpected numbers of ...

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