LA - suburban sprawl

Population growth

• Well connected airports
• development of the film industry
• population density of 3000 per km2
• industrialisation- aircraft industry good for wealthy military tests
• transport
• natural resources - discovery of ol

Suburban sprawl

Push factors

• Declining jobs
• Pollution
• Poor schools and services
• Congestion
• Crowded housing
• Businesses looking for greenfield sites
• Fears for safety
• high land rents
• gang crime

Pull factors

• Better schools and services
• Large shopping centres
• Accessible
• Cheaper land for larger properities
• Safer neighbourhoods
• Low density
• More open spaces

Consquences of urban sprawl

• Work- deindustrialisation, changing economy, loss of thousands of jobs and replacement jobs are low pay
• Waste 24 million people produce 50 000 tonnes of waste everyday, transport only 30% use public…