Suburbanisation - Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Question 1

What was it originally?

Answer 1

City was a great defensive site up on a valley side

Question 2

Why did it originally grow?

Answer 2

Increase in wool trade but also famous for being a major coal mining area

Question 3

19th Century

Answer 3

Shipbuilding and heavy engineering were central to the city’s prosperity; and the city was a powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution

Question 4

19th Century innovations

Answer 4

Electric light bulbs

Steam turbine

Question 5

What did the 19th century developments encourage?

Answer 5

Growth of Newcastle = involved rapid urbanisation + suburbanisation

Question 6

Describe the suburbanisation

Answer 6

Wealthy migrated to the North of city away from the heavy industries of the river, and

The city suburbanised in this direction + continues to do so today.

Question 7

Major suburbs

Answer 7

Gosforth = had own high street now + pop = 24,000

Jesmond

more recently Newcastle Great Park

Question 8

What is it an example of?

Answer 8

Outward expansion of a city + electoral ward boundary changes allowing a city to swallow up an independent town in 1974

Question 9

Has council helped with this?

Answer 9

YES

Constructed edge of town council estates in Longbenton + Kenton

Question 10

How has the Industry followed in this suburbanisation pattern?

Answer 10

With new light industrial centres + office developments at Quorum, Newcastle Great Park + at Silverlink along the A19