Be able to explain why there is demand for new housing in the UK
Understand the issues faced over using both brown and greenfield sites for the development of new housing
Homework
Read the Geofile article given out in the lesson.
Answer questions:
i) Examine the issues regarding the use of brownfield sites for additional housing in a town or city in the UK (7)
ii) There are plans to extend existing rural settlements and to create new villages within southeast England before 2016. Examine the issues considered by decision makers when selecting sites for such new developments (7)
Additional reading- remember you should be doing 4 hours of study for each of your subjects. Are you?
Reurbanisation What is reurbanisation? What are the causes of reurbanisation? Be able to give a detailed case study of regeneration in the UK What is gentrification and how is it connected to reurbanisation?
Choose from one of the case studies below and produce a detailed powerpoint presentation which answers the questions above. You should also use Live Maps to produce a map of the case study you choose e.g. My example A really good website here that I got some of my info from.
General resources AS Geography textbook P208-210 Regeneration through culture article Urban regeneration article
Make sure that you completed all of the activities from the lesson on Tuesday, especially if you missed part of it for revision.
Activities from lesson 1. Read P207 and answer all of the questions about Urchfont, Wiltshire 2. Read P212 and make notes (including diagrams) 3. P213 - copy diagram showing patterns of land use in suburbanised villages
Homework activity Complete exam questions about counter-urbanisation and the suburbanisation of villages.
Phil and Kirstie do counterurbanisation... (in fact, a new series starts tomorrow night!)
Aims from today's lesson
•Be able to define counterurbanisation •Know the difference between counterurbanisation and suburbanisation •Understand the causes and consequences of changes over time in settlements at the rural-urban fringe.
Counterurbanisation is the process of migration of people from major urban areas into smaller settlements and rural areas.
It is different from suburbanisation because there is a distinct gap between the urban settlements and the settlement people move into.
Causes of counterurbanisation
1. Negative urban factors
~ air pollution, dirt, crime levels, high house prices etc
2. Positive rural factors
~ pleasant, clean environment with more space, access to countryside, 'lifestyle' (think Escape to the Country), possible lower house prices.
3. Socio-economic factors
~ greater affluence, greater car ownership, improved public services in rural areas and the decentralisation of jobs
4. Allowed / encouraged by
~ greater personal mobility, demand for second homes because of rising affluence, retirement, shorter working week, relative decline in agriculture leading to sale of farm buildings and land for building new homes.
Consequences of counterurbanisation
These can be both positive and negative and the consequences vary according to distance from the major urban settlement. Settlements at the rural-urban fringe tend to experience growth whilst more remote settlements tend to experience decline.
Effects on layout
~ modern housing estates built on edge of settlements
~ small industrial units built on main roads
~ open areas built on
~ old and agricultural properties converted / modernised
Effects on services
~ local services may close down, be altered or grow depending on location of the settlement.
Other effects
~ tension between locals and newcomers
~ house price increase (locals unable to afford higher prices)
~ newcomers have the wealth, mobility and desire to continue to use urban services so even in settlements where population is growing, services may still close
~ settlements become 'dormitory villages' - empty during the day when commuters are at work
Homework activities
Read 2 articles about the effects of second home ownership on rural settlements.
Answer the exam question (refer to the markscheme provided!) below:
You need to:
Phil and Kirstie do counterurbanisation... (in fact, a new series starts tomorrow night!)