Processes of change in HDE urban areas

Question 1

What are the four processes of a typical western european city?

Answer 1

1. Urbanisation (inner city factories)
2. Suburbanisation (semis + detached)
3. Counter urbanisation (car ownership)
4. Urban resurgence (inner city regerneration + gentrification)

Question 2

What is Suburbanisation?

Answer 2

The decentralisation of people, employment, and services towards the edges of an urban area. The outward growth of lower density urban development, or urban sprawl is closely linked to the development of transport networks, such as roads, and trains.

Question 3

What is counter urbanisation?

Answer 3

Population movement from large urban areas to smaller urban areas and rural areas. People move as a result of the push problems of the city, such as: crime, congestion, and land degredation. Pull factors of rural life are involved with this too such as: bigger living space, and safer environments.

Question 4

What is urban resurgence

Answer 4

Population movement from rural back to urban areas. This occurs from ‘mobile young people’ including university students who are pulled to the centre of the city creates an influx of youth and new wealth encourages a revival of inner city and CBD areas. Some positive impacts are deindustrialisation as older buildings are regenerated, building on brownfield sites