Social and economic issues of urban growth
- Created by: Jake Robertson
- Created on: 25-04-13 14:02
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- What are urban areas like and why?
- Characteristics of urban areas
- Social
- High population density
- Diverse culture
- Younger population
- Environmental
- Air pollution
- Water pollution
- Economic
- Good transport networks
- More secondary and tertiary employment
- Greater inequalities
- Social
- Land use patterns
- Factors affecting land use
- Political
- Government investment
- Planning controls
- Economic
- Transport routes
- Value of land
- Growth of industry
- Social
- Mobility of population
- Religion/ ethnicity
- Physical
- Climate
- Relief
- Drainage
- Geology
- Political
- Concentric ring
- Sector
- Multinuclei
- Random
- Factors affecting land use
- South Wales
- Narrow valies
- Mining
- Industrialisation
- Patterns
- Rows of terraced houses
- Sector
- Strips of land use
- Sunderland
- Sector and concentric ring
- River Wear
- Industrialisation
- Expansion of population
- Authorities biult council estates
- Current regeneration
- Manchester
- Ship canal
- Agglomeration
- Industrialisation
- Regeneration
- Multinuclei and Sector
- Buenos Aires
- Concentric ring
- Flat
- Coastal
- Good access
- Agricultural hinterland
- Population of 12.5m
- Government investment in transport network
- Grew rapidly after Argentine independance
- Suburbanisation and sburban intesnification
- Helston
- River and valley to the west
- Gap town
- Former stannary town
- Route convergance
- Former market town
- Wealhy houses biult in centre
- Population growth causing suburbanisation
- RNAS Culdrose brings personnel
- Segregation of social groups
- Increase in OOTS
- Dereliction, decentralisation, suburban intensification, attempt to regenerate, becoming dormitory town
- Characteristics of urban areas
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