Changing Cities-Birmingham-A changing UK city
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- Changing Cities - Birmingham - A changing UK city
- Processes that change a city
- Urbanisation-influenced by manufacturing, e.g. jewellery. small housing built for workers coming in from countryside, e.g. Small Heath
- Suburbanisation-1920s rising population meant building new housing on the outskirts of the city. New estates, mainly semi-detached houses
- Counter-urbanisation- five new comprehensive development areas built in inner city. People forced out of urban areas to places like Redditch.
- Re-urbanisation- more people want to live in centre again, close to work/amenities. modernisation of flats and building of new apartments near canal.
- National migration
- People moving out to retirement destinations in the south, such as Bournemouth
- People moving in because increased investment in Birmingham's CBD has created more employment opportunities
- International migration
- People moving in currently who have fled conflict in countries such as Syria
- People moving in in the past in response to employee shortages, encouraged by the UK government to fill key job posts.
- Impacts of migration
- Younger population: with migrants settling in Birmingham, the percentage of people aged 20-35 is higher than the UK average - 66% of the population is under 45.
- Multiculturalism: 42% of residents are from ethnic groups other than white; 16% do not have English as a main language.
- Ethnic communities: in the 1970s many migrants settled in Sparkbrook and Sparkhill (cheaper housing). Communities have developed with their own shops, places of worship.
- Housing: in 2015, it was estimated that the city's housing demands were higher than expected, rising by an extra 5000.
- Services: having more people in the city is putting increased pressure on key services, such as GP surgeries.
- Processes that change a city
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