Urban and Rural Characteristics

Question 1

What are the housing characteristics for the rural area?

Answer 1

Larger privately owned housing and new estates with privately owned homes

Question 2

What are the ethnicity characteristics for the inner city?

Answer 2

High proportion of ethnic minorities

Question 3

What are the ethnicity characteristics for the rural area?

Answer 3

Majority are white

Question 4

What are the age structure characteristics for the inner city?

Answer 4

High proportion of younger people (students and young professionals)

Question 5

What are the age structure characteristics for the rural area?

Answer 5

Higher proportion of elderly people

Question 6

What are the wealth characteristics for the inner city?

Answer 6

Poorest sections of the urban population tend to live here

Get more wealthy people living in redeveloped areas

Question 7

What are the wealth characteristics for the rural area?

Answer 7

Wealthiest residents who’ve moved out of the city

Some less wealthy original rural areas

Question 8

What are the employment characteristics for the inner city?

Answer 8

High proportion of students, unemployed and unskilled or semi-skilled workers

Some young professionals living in redeveloped areas

Question 9

What are the employment characteristics for the rural area?

Answer 9

High proportion of workers in professional and managerial sectors (doctors)

Also agricultural workers

Question 10

What are the provision of services characteristics for the inner city?

Answer 10

Good access to public services

Schools nearby

Close to city centre for shops, cinemas, theatres, hospitals etc.

Question 11

What are the provision of services characteristics for the rural area?

Answer 11

Village shops may have closed as more residents shop in urban areas on their commute to work

Lack of public transport facilities

Question 12

What are the economic problems found in inner cities?

Answer 12

Industrial decline and lack of investment

Poverty high

High levels of employment

Question 13

What are the social problems found in inner cities?

Answer 13

Old poor quality housing in a state of disrepair

Tension between people of different ethnicities

Poverty high

Crime rates high, due to poverty and poor relations with police

Poorer health and educational qualifications

Question 14

What are the environmental problems found in the inner city?

Answer 14

Graffiti and vandalism due to higher proportion of children and teenagers

Air pollution due to traffic and industry

Question 15

What are the economic problems found in the rural areas?

Answer 15

Agricultural decline leads to unemployment

Closure of shops and services

Question 16

What are the social problems found in rural areas?

Answer 16

Isolated people, especially elderly

Lack of public transport

Question 17

What are the housing characteristics for the inner city?

Answer 17

High density terrace housing - 19th centuary

High rise blocks of flats built in 60s

Some old warehouses which may be redeveloped into luxury apartments

Question 18

What two things can affect the character of urban and rural areas?

Answer 18

Population change

Migration

Question 19

How might migration affect housing?

Answer 19

In developed countries, most migrants occupy cheaper, run down areas of housing in urban areas, like those found in inner cities

In developing countries, rural-urban migration resulted in growth of shanty towns

Question 20

How might migration affect ethnicity?

Answer 20

High numbers of immigrants can change character of areas as they bring their existing cultures and customs. Ghettos can form of this ethnicity is they fail to integrate

Some immigrants go to rural areas to seek work in agriculture, can have great impact on character of small rural villages than it does on larger cities

Question 21

How might migration affect age structure?

Answer 21

In developed countries, rural areas have increasing ageing population due to out migration of younger people and inward migration of retired people

Provision of services are affected by changing age structure, schools could close due to reduced demand

Question 22

How might migration affect wealth?

Answer 22

In developed countries, increased numbers