Urban Deprivation
Refers to AQA A2 Geography
World Cities Topic
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- Urban Deprivation
- Why do inequalaties occur within urban areas?
- Enormous contrasts in wealth can be found over relatively small distances
- The wealthy and poor seem to concentrate spatially - this is a form of SOCIAL SEGREGATION
- Reasons
- Housing
- Developers, builders and planners tend to build on block of land with a market in mind. There is a premium price for homes well away from poor areas.
- Wealthy people have more choice of where they want to live, paying a premium areas with pleasing environments/ quality schools/ green space.
- Poorer groups have little choice of where to live - where they are placed in welfare housing or where rent is cheap.
- Changing Environments
- Houses built in Victorian/ Edwardian times now too big for average UK families
- Converted into multi-let appartments for people on low incomes for private renting, or houses rented by students.
- Former poor areas are being 'gentrified'
- 'Right to Buy' legislation of the 1980s has transformed many council estates, as homes were bought by occupents and improved.
- Houses built in Victorian/ Edwardian times now too big for average UK families
- The ethnic dimension
- Ethnic groups were originally new immigrants who suffered discrimination in the job market, and were often unemployed or in low paid jobs.
- New immigrants may only be able afford to buy cheap housing e.g. inner-city terraces, or afford to rent privately.
- Newly arrived migrants concentrate in poor areas of the city, often clustered into multicultural areas.
- Ethnic groupings persist into later generations.
- Housing
- Why do inequalaties occur within urban areas?
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