Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Urban Decline.
- Definitions.
- Urban decline is the deterioration of the
inner city caused by lack of investment and
maintenance.
- It is often but not exclusively accompanied by a decline in population numbers,
decreasing economic performance and unemployment.
- Urban deprivation is a standard of
living below that of the majority
living in a particular society.
- Characteristics of Urban Decline.
- Poor quality housing
- Poor building maintenance
- Many building would have leaking roofs, draughty
windows and crumbly stonework
- Many empty buildings
- Have the potential to be vandalised
- High levels of pollution
- Air, noise, water and
land
- Effects
- Physical
- Derelict building
- Social
- Social difficulty as people become
depressed as they are made
umemployed
- Population of area declines
- Economic
- Less killed workforce if achievement is weaker at school
- Environmental
- Pollution levels
- Political
- The government bought about initiatives to encourage
re-urbanisation
- Case Studies
- Park Hill, Sheffield
- The Thames Gateway