GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Urban Sprawl, Situation Two
3 Apr 2018
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Suburbanization & urban sprawl: urban decentralization- periphery vs centre ( want to live in periphery bc centre isn"t as important, emergence of suburbs. Post wwii suburb housing boom (affordable mortgages) Beginning of cities *city walls: transportation technology (cars, street cars, opened ppl to move to less city like area, suburbs prevalent where: Populations are wealthily and can afford large homes. Slums clearance & replaced by cheaper high-rise housing (high levels of crime, vandalism, substance abuse) Poverty (low income, poor physical environments, poor health, nancial stress) Urbanization (people living in urban areas, increases) Consequences , (economic, nancial, poor waste water management, not following planners, miss out on potential of city) Slums: not organized, growing faster than the city can keep up with. 30-70% of population living in slums, no sanitation, a lot of health issues, highly contested, insecurity, sub-standard housing. 1 bil people in 2005 lived in slums.
