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How does the social and cultural structure of settlements vary and why?
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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
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
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
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
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