Urbanisation Flashcards
What did the industrial revolution do?
Made ppl move into growing towns and cities
Factories
Ppl moved
Huge growth in numbers
Viking Dublin?
How Dublin began
Ideal @ mouth of river
Vikings could trade
Anglo-Norman Dublin?
1169
Built stone walls
Medieval with narrow streets
Poor sanitation
16-18 centuries
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New streets in grid iron pattern
Parks made
Georgian houses
19th century
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
20th century
rapid expand
slums cleared
Ppl moved to suburbs (crumlin, Ballyfermot)
New suburbs- Lucan tallAGHT
What is the CBD
Central businesesnesses district
Banks, offices, department stores
More stories than Dickens, bro
O’Connell Street
What did people do 200 years ago?
Lived rural life
Lived and worked land
What’s in d CBD
IFSC
Arnotts
BT
Debenhams
smaller shopping areas
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)
Shopping centres in Dublin
Blanch Square Dundrum Liffey valleeyy Pavilions
Port cities
Industries: Rotterdam, cork
Recreation
Cities need places 4 the young ‘uns to chill w the squad
Donabate: astro (fight me), new bridge
Land value
Less from CBD
Valuable in city centre
Rents high
More land in suburbs
Daily urban movement
Congestion
Car, bus, train, on foot
Rush hour 8-9am, 5-6pm
Solutions to traffic congestion
Buses carrying more QBC's to city DART Tram/Luas- festt, efficient, residential 2 city Bike to work, cycle lanes
Restricting car use
Congestion charges, London
Heavier parking fines/costs
Pedestrian only streets
Clamping
Zones of decline
Run down, may have been redeveloped in past
Occupied by homeless and drug addicts
Unemployment in zones of decline
Factories moving: less jobs
City centre jobs: skill
2002- only 62% of city centre kids sat LC
No uni- no job
Crime in ZOD
Drug related
Stealing from shops for drugs
Dublin city- high crime r8
Community disruption
Ppl have had to move 2 suburbs like Ballymun
Isolated
Urban sprawl
Spread of city into country
Disadvantages of sprawl
Less wildlife
Long commutes to CBD
concrete jungle
Urban renewal
Getting rid of old houses in city and building modern ones. Remains residential