Urbanisation Flashcards

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What did the industrial revolution do?

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Made ppl move into growing towns and cities
Factories
Ppl moved
Huge growth in numbers

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Viking Dublin?

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How Dublin began
Ideal @ mouth of river
Vikings could trade

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Anglo-Norman Dublin?

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1169
Built stone walls
Medieval with narrow streets
Poor sanitation

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4
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16-18 centuries

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Expand
New streets in grid iron pattern
Parks made
Georgian houses

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19th century

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After 1800- many of the rich folk left
Landlords bought the Georgian gaffs
Rented rooms to families
Too many ppl up in there
Lotsa disease
Dublin dock lands- werk it
Dublin- distribution centre
Goods through canal and railways
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20th century

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rapid expand
slums cleared
Ppl moved to suburbs (crumlin, Ballyfermot)
New suburbs- Lucan tallAGHT

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What is the CBD

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Central businesesnesses district
Banks, offices, department stores
More stories than Dickens, bro
O’Connell Street

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What did people do 200 years ago?

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Lived rural life

Lived and worked land

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What’s in d CBD

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IFSC
Arnotts
BT
Debenhams

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smaller shopping areas

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smaller areas 4 day 2 day shopping
u don’t have to go to city centre for ur stuff!!
Donabate: supervalu, p.o, train station, chemist
Swords: penney’s, Dunnes, clothes shops, restaurants (cheeky nandos bantz)

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Shopping centres in Dublin

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Blanch
Square
Dundrum
Liffey valleeyy
Pavilions
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Port cities

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Industries: Rotterdam, cork

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Recreation

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Cities need places 4 the young ‘uns to chill w the squad

Donabate: astro (fight me), new bridge

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Land value

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Less from CBD
Valuable in city centre
Rents high
More land in suburbs

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Daily urban movement

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Congestion
Car, bus, train, on foot
Rush hour 8-9am, 5-6pm

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16
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Solutions to traffic congestion

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Buses carrying more
QBC's to city
DART
Tram/Luas- festt, efficient, residential 2 city
Bike to work, cycle lanes
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Restricting car use

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Congestion charges, London
Heavier parking fines/costs
Pedestrian only streets
Clamping

18
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Zones of decline

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Run down, may have been redeveloped in past

Occupied by homeless and drug addicts

19
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Unemployment in zones of decline

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Factories moving: less jobs
City centre jobs: skill
2002- only 62% of city centre kids sat LC
No uni- no job

20
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Crime in ZOD

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Drug related
Stealing from shops for drugs
Dublin city- high crime r8

21
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Community disruption

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Ppl have had to move 2 suburbs like Ballymun

Isolated

22
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Urban sprawl

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Spread of city into country

23
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Disadvantages of sprawl

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Less wildlife
Long commutes to CBD
concrete jungle

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Urban renewal

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Getting rid of old houses in city and building modern ones. Remains residential

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Urban redevelopment
Getting rid of old buildings in inner city Replaced w/ offices, hotels, apartments Function changes
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TallAGHT
``` new town 1960's Important Facilities Connected to city by Luas Growing Clubs, cafés, gyms ```
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Problems w/ Dolphins barn residents
Bad education: 61% no formal 39% unemployed in 2005 Ill health, school dropouts, drugs
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Physical renewal
Fatima re-gen board began rebuilding in 2005
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Social renewal
Safe, sustainable community Improve health Education Employment
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Shantytowns
Bustees in Kolkata | Under bridges, beside canals, wasteland, outskirts
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Health risks of shanty towns
No showers or toilets No running water No electricity Diseases: cholera, polio, flu
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What do ppl in Shantytowns work as
Rickshaw workers Labourers Recycle stuff for money Delivery men
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100 days
Of work Government scheme Guaranteed 100 days of work on public project
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Overcrowded bustees
``` Rapid growth Outskirts Home of many rural migrants 5mil ppl in bustees Barabazar: 100,000 ppl per square kilometre One roomed huts Pavement ppl: no homes ```
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Inadequate services
``` 40 families- 1 tap Rare flush toilets Effluent runs thru open sewers Rain washes it into bustees- cholera Bad transport- old buses, overcrowded Badly built and poor schools, no tables Some kids don't even go ```