Edexcel GCSE Geography A · 1GA0
Specification 4.8 · Paper 2
Revise: Managing Urban Challenges and Improving Quality of LifeQuantitative information helps establish the scale of inequality. Estimates for Mumbai suggest that about 60% of residents live in informal housing occupying only 8% of the city’s land, while the remaining 40% occupy 92%. This indicates a very unequal distribution of residential space, although land shares alone do not measure housing quality.