changing urban environments

reasons for urbanisation

• urbanisation- is the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities
• growth in population
• rural to urban migration due to push and pull factors e.g better jobs and less entertainment in countryside
• in the 19th century machinery replaced manual farming so many people lost jobs and moved to the city

parts of the city

• hoyt model suggests that the CBD is surrounded by the land uses that expand along transport links and rivers
• the burgess model suggests that land types surround the CBD in rings
• CBD- central business district which has businesses and offices also shops and resturants
• inner city- consisits of high rise flats and victorian houses due to old factories being close to the workers, it has factoriess and is run down
• the suburbs- has residential homes with less crime and pollution compared to the inner city
• the rural- urban fringe- is where the urban land merges to the rural land, it is on the outskirts of the city and can be protected by green belt

housing shortages

• schemes have been introduced to maxamise housing as urbanisation means the population is growing in one area
• 1) urban renewal schemes are government stratagies to build housing in derelict inner city areas e.g. canary warf from london docklands
• 2)new towns like milton keynes
• 3)relocation e.g. into council homes

revitalising the CBD

• e.g. maidstone- fremlins, the mall, pedestrianised area and new shops
• they can also be improved by building on derelict sites
• improving…