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Rural + Urban
Settlements - Coggle Diagram
Rural + Urban
Settlements
Rural
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economic activity
- high % primary activities
- large areas cheap agricultural
land available
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low total population + density
Eg - Scarva - 1,592 people per
square mile
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services
- limited range
- small population to support them
- limited public transport
Eg - Dromara - limited bus service +
minor roads
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Urban
economic activity
- secondary (manufacturing)
- tertiary (services) activities
- higher total population
- larger workforce for 2nd
- higher demand services for 3rd
Eg - Belfast/London = PWC/Deloitte
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high total population + density
Eg - Belfast - 6,500 people per
square mile
pertaining to
the town
- larger town
- city
- conurbation
(megalopolis)
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- services
- wide range
- large population to support
- wide range of public transport
Eg - Belfast - Glider + M2 motorway
- large no. entertainment
Eg - Belfast - Victoria Square
- building height
- greater conc. + taller buildings
- due to competition, land price
increases, increasing height of buildings
Eg - Belfast - Obel Tower - 85m
- land use
- retail
- commercial
- industrial
Eg - Belfast - Boucher road
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Suburbanisation
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- as cities increase in population
- in 19th + 20th century
- physical expansion urban area
- surrounding RURAL areas to be
consumed & assimilated
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Why?
by 1950/60s - old inner city working
class housing areas in bad state of repair
So... many ppl housed public sector housing
at edge of cities on greenfield sites
EXAMPLE
Belfast = Castlereagh, Sydenham
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EVALUATE
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BAD
congestion in area increase
= increased traffic, esp @ peak times
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Counter-Urbanisation
D: movement of people out of inner
cities + suburbs to live beyond
metropolitan area in surrounding
villages + towns
Consequences
- increase in demand housing in village
- house price rise
Eg - Belfast to Crawfordsburn,
house price rise, locals forced out of market
- increased pressure on
services
Eg - Downshire PS Hillsborough
oversubscribed
- loss of village
character
- increased commuter
traffic
Eg - Moira experiences high
level congestion @ peak traffic times
Why
occur?
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quieter, more tranquil,
less traffic noise/hustle/bustle
cleaner, fresher air
& less traffic pollution
less crime, fewer social problems,
less vandalism - felt safer
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Greenfield
Developments
D: building of residential (Moira),
commercial, retail (Sprucefield), industrial (Knockmore road) property on greenfield
sites (areas land never built on before)
most under pressure in
greenbelts (area of undeveloped
land around city/urban area where
building is restricted)
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- EXAMPLE
- Sprucefield - located RUF of Lisburn
- more land space
- large supply labour from Lisburn
- good transport network = M1 + A1
Disadvantages
- loss of agricultural land
- lead decrease revenue farmers
- land crops/cows no longer available
- loss of greenfield sites
- building of residential + commercial property
at RUF
- resulted growth + expansion urban areas
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