Characteristics and causes of urban decline

Question 1

What is urban decline?

Answer 1

when a decrease in economic activity in an urban area causes it to become run down

Question 2

What are 3 reasons of social segregation?

Answer 2

housing (wealthy can choose where to live, poor can’t), changing environments (poor areas gentrified), ethnic dimension (migrants suffer job discrimination = no/poorly paid so concentrate in poor areas of city)

Question 3

What are 7 aspects which can influence the decline of the CBD?

Answer 3

congestion, environment, out of town shopping centres, suburban locations, expensive, infrastructure, transport (if only tom canner saw everything in egypt)

Question 4

How many people live in inner cities in the UK?

Answer 4

more than 4 million people live in the inner cities in the UK

Question 5

What are the 4 characteristics of inner cities?

Answer 5

economic decline, personal poverty, social problems and environmental decay

Question 6

Since when has there been a movement of employment away from large cities?

Answer 6

1950’s

Question 7

Between1960-1981 how many job losses were there and what proportion did this make up of national job losses?

Answer 7

1.6 million manufacturing jobs, 75% of national job losses