Los Angeles - suburbanisation
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- Created on: 30-06-16 23:14
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- Los Angeles-suburbanisation
- Causes
- Transport
- 20th century air travel
- 2010-6th busiest airport in the world
- transcontinental railway from the east in 1876 simulated population growth
- half a million people arrived within 40 years
- 20th century air travel
- Employment
- manufacturing industries such as ford and the discovery of oil
- aircraft industry took advantage of the weather for civil and military test flights
- Image
- film industry in the 1920s and 30s created a nice image for LA
- 1960 -tourism in the film industry (Disneyland and universal studios)
- created further employment
- 1960 -tourism in the film industry (Disneyland and universal studios)
- film industry in the 1920s and 30s created a nice image for LA
- Transport
- Environmental effects
- Urban smog
- 10 million car owners create smog
- high pressure systems over LA, create dense cold air above. The cold dense air sits in the urban basin and traps pollution abouve LA.
- the still conditions allow smog build up, creating health hazards (asthma)
- Poor public transport results in high car ownership
- in 2005, only 10.2% of commuters in LA used public transport , compared to over 40% in London
- Urban smog
- Social effects
- segregation
- ethnic enclaves
- communities of people with similar cultural/ ethnic backgrounds
- ethnic enclaves
- Leo Politi , primary school - 92% of students are of Hispanic origin
- segregation
- Pull factors
- electric trams in the 1920s and 30s meant that people could live further away
- motorways spread across the city, and petrol prices were low before the 1980s (under a dollar per gallon)
- Urban push factors
- poor schools and services
- Declining jobs
- fears for safety
- high and rent
- Donut' city
- long-establishes car,tyre and steel factories shut down due to competition from overseas -most were located in the inner suburbs
- businesses moved to the suburbs due to lower land prices and more space
- middle/high income earners moved to the suburbs and large retail malls followed them,- people didn't have a need to travel to the city
- Problems facing LA
- Water- water has to travel 350km to LA, up to 50% of water evaporated before it reaches to LA
- Waste- 24 million people produce 50 000 tonnes of waste every day
- A recycling scheme now offers a 25 cent refund for any liquid container,this has dramatically increased recycling
- Energy- heatwave temperatures (up to 45 degrees Celsius) caused power black outs ,when power stations were unable to cope with power demands for air conditioning
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