Causes and Effects of Suburbanisation

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	Causes and Effects of Suburbanisation
	Causes Better QOL away from the city You can get much more for you money e.g Housing Commuting is much easier nowadays In the 1950s and 60s, large scale construction took place on the fringes Increased car ownership 2x Population growth so demand for housing is higher 1997 -> 2021, population will increase by 7% but housing demand by 18% Generally safer Leisure facilities	Effects Leave a hole in CBD centre as people move out Better sense of community in the suburbs Increase in out of city congestion and air pollution - 40% travel by car to work in Surbiton Increased pressure on the greenbelt Increased opportunity for environmental improvement Decreased need for high rise, high density housing Increased demand for local retailing Increased employment opportunity Increased amounts of derelict and empty buildings in the CBD Increase in size of city as demand for low density housing increases
	Overall summary Overall, suburbanisation is caused by many factors however has both positive and negative effects. Economically, the effects are better for the receiving suburbs but devastating for the giving city whereas environmentally, the impacts are greater for the suburbs as they now have to deal with increased pollution, Socially, the city is left rather dead, for example in Detroit in 2013, 83% of its inhabitants were black whereas in the suburbs there is a higher and more positive sense of community.

Causes and Effects of Suburbanisation

Causes

Better QOL away from the city
You can get much more for you money e.g Housing
Commuting is much easier nowadays
In the 1950s and 60s, large scale construction took place on the fringes
Increased car ownership
2x Population growth so demand for housing is higher
1997 -> 2021, population will increase by 7% but housing demand by 18%
Generally safer
Leisure facilities

Effects

Leave a hole in CBD centre as people move out
Better sense of community in the suburbs
Increase in out of city congestion and air pollution - 40% travel by car to work in Surbiton
Increased pressure on the greenbelt
Increased opportunity for environmental improvement
Decreased need for high rise, high density housing
Increased demand for local retailing
Increased employment opportunity
Increased amounts of derelict and empty buildings in the CBD
Increase in size of city as demand for low density housing increases

Overall summary

Overall, suburbanisation is caused by many factors however has both positive and negative effects. Economically, the effects are better for the receiving suburbs but devastating for the giving city whereas environmentally, the impacts are greater for the suburbs as they now have to deal with increased pollution, Socially, the city is left rather dead, for example in Detroit in 2013, 83% of its inhabitants were black whereas in the suburbs there is a higher and more positive sense of community.

Comments

reviser585

Report Thu 23rd May, 2019 @ 10:07

the last sentence in the summary is kinda racist, by comparing a black community to a weakened sense of community

geography student

Report Wed 25th May, 2022 @ 10:34

thanks for the article - I simply loved it

geography student

Report Wed 25th May, 2022 @ 10:34

Get Revising

Causes and Effects of Suburbanisation