CASE STUDY- NYC and the Bronx
- Created by: 8cburton
- Created on: 23-05-15 17:04
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New York is a world city and controls 40% of the world's finance
URBANISATION
- Started in 17th century with massive immigration from outside the USA
- 1950 population boomed and transport/subways linked poverty stricken areas to jobs in the city
- Port of Manhattan increased manufacturing employment
SUBURBANISATION
- Began with bus, train + subway development in 20th century
ROLE OF MIGRANTS
- Good job opportunities for the white
- low paid jobs for the ethnic minorities for poor became poorer
- 'land of opportunity'
- Ghetto developed with concentrated ethnic groups
- Ghettos were run down and impoverished
- Hybrid cultures emerge
- Equality between ethnicities CAN arise
- Segregated societies
- Tension between ethnic groups
- Sense of traditional home culture lost
SOUTH BRONX
- 1 of the poorest areas in America
- Small farm village grew due to transport to a rail road suburb
- Urbanised as a manufacturing centre
- Was 1st home to wealthy land owners then migrants moved in
DEMOGRAPHICS
- Most mulit-ethnic diverse area in the country
- White americans are the minority
- Much crime + poverty + rented accomodation + gangs + drug abuse
COUNTER-URBANISTION
- After WW2 many…
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