Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How does the social and cultural
structure of settlements vary and
why?
- Industrialisation
- Growth of factories which
attract workers which
improves development of
towns and cities
- Cumulative causation
- Investment
- Factories
- Workers
- More factories
- More workers
- Higher tax
- Economic growth
- Suburbanisation
- People who sought to escape noise and pollution of inner city
- Move from centre to sub-urbs
- Hartley, Plymouth
- 3 miles from city centre
- Well established residential area
- family life
- Most houses from 20's + 30's
- Wealthy area - large houses (Low density)
- Almost no commerical
- Lots of land + space
- Bus service along main road
- Urban sprawl
- Cities expanding outwards into countryside
- Counter-urbanisation
- Movement away from cities all
together and into towns/
villages
- Consequence
- Increased pressure to build housing
- Rising populations
- Increased divorce rates
- Later marriages increases demand for houses
- Urchfont, Wiltshire
- 1950s
- 10 farms
- no piped water until 1956
- Today
- 1/4 of people aged over 65yrs -
16% of Wiltshire's over 65 as a
whole
- Rural aspect suffering
- Farmers facing ruin - big
agriculture recessions
- Must expand crops to survive
- Urban aspect thriving
- 7% of houses are
second homes to
people living in cities
- Reurbanisation
- Movement back into an area
once abandoned
- Uses gentrification,
renovation and re-imaging of
areas within cities
- Suburban intensification
- Infilling vacant building plots,
replacing detached large
housing with smaller homes or
flats
- Upgrading local shipping
areas by allowing high street
names to take over local
- Suburbs become urban + higher building densities