3.3 Cities and Land Use Flashcards
Contrast urbanisation and counter-urbanisation (consider movement, location, time period- when it happened, wealth and qualifications of person)
Urbanisation is when people move into a city is search for higher payed jobs or more specialised jobs. This is happening a lot more in emerging and developing countries.
Counter urbanisation is when people move out of a city (normally happens in developed countries) because they are looking for a better lifestyle and/or can work from home.
What is suburbanisation and why did it happen?
Suburbanisation happened after the main industrial era. Industries and factories were shutting down and so the more wealthy people such as business owners left to go live on the outside of the city where air was cleaner and land value was cheaper so they could have big houses with gardens. This region was adapted to have cars as most wealthy people had cars. Suburbanisation is when people move from inner city and CBD to the suburbs (In a few words)
How did suburbanisation affect where people lived?
Suburbanisation meant people were living around the inner city. And it also made a system of rich on the outside and poorer on the inside
Why did counter-urbanisation happen?
Counter urbanisation happens because they are looking for a better lifestyle and/or can work from home. It can also be because a certain city is failing (Detroit) so people can no longer afford to live there with all the lack of jobs and rising crime
What is re-urbanisation and why does it happen?
Re-urbanisation is when people move back into a city after a lot of people have moved out. This is often linked to regeneration of an area or because a big company has invested in an area.
Who moves back to urban areas in re-urbanisation (wealth, skills, job types…)
It is normally the wealthy people that left in the first place that return when they see jobs are becoming available and/or because of regeneration of an area which makes it a better place to live.
What is the difference between Commercial, Industrial and Residential land in urban areas?
Commercial areas often have very good transport links such as the CBD as they need to be able to bring supplies in and out fast. Industrial land is often just the region around the CBD as it too has good transport links but in recent years they have moved to the rural urban fringe as there is low land value and still have good transport links. Residential land is simply where people live i.e the suburbs.
Where (CBD/Inner City/Suburbs/RUF) do you find Commerce, Industrial and Residential?
Commerce is normally found found in the centre of a city (CBD)
Industrial is either just a outside the CBD or on the rural urban fringe
Residential is in the suburbs (larger houses) or the inner city (smaller more dense housing)
How does accessibility affect the land use?
Accessibility often results in certain areas becoming more crowded as they are more valuable i.e CBD as all the roads lead there and so businesses set up there which makes jobs which attracts people.
How does planning affect land use?
Planning means certain areas such as the green belt are off limits for residential housing and offices and planners also try to get people to build on brown field sites
How does availability and cost affect land use?
The cost of land is linked to availability as, if the cost of land is high then the availability is low as a result they houses become flats as you move more towards the centre. Big companies will then invest due to high level of customers and open jobs.
