3 - Suburbanisation & reurbanistation

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Cities

Year 2

Mister de Graaf

Geography Master

ATTENTION

When you see this icon               on one of the slides, you should take a screenshot. These are important notes to copy later on in your notebook. 

Summarize in three short sentences what last lesson was about

Urbanisation

The migration of people from the countryside to the city

--> workerclass homes

Reflection

Stadsvernieuwing

Urban renewal

The quality of social rental housing is being improved. This is done by:

Renovation

Redevelop-ment

The population composition (who lives there) remains the same (which is why there is often no solution for the substantive problems (low quality of life)

Reflection

Suburbanisation

Suburbanisation = process in which people move from urban areas to rural areas

Suburbanisation

Declining cities (1970-2000)

Suburbanisation

Declining cities (1970-2000)

- Cities are crowded and aged

Suburbanisation

Declining cities (1970-2000)

- Cities are crowded and aged

- Cars make larger travelling

distances possible (commuting)

Suburbanisation

Declining cities (1970-2000)

- Cities are crowded and aged

- Cars make larger travelling

distances possible (commuting)

- People leave the city

(= suburbanisation)

Suburbanisation

Declining cities (1970-2000)

- Cities are crowded and aged

- Cars make larger travelling

distances possible (commuting)

- People leave the city

(= suburbanisation)

- Smaller towns grow to suburbs

These are greener, safer and more quiet

than the city

Suburban problems

Can you think of any?

Suburban problems

1. Increased congestion (due to suburban commuters)
   
2. Cities are getting poorer (poor newcomers and rich people leaving)
   
3. Suburban areas tend to change in dormitory towns
   
4. Nature disappears
   

#1 Increased congestion

Example: suburbanisation around Rotterdam

leads to congestion (= traffic jams), because commuters travel from home to work and vice versa each day

#2 Cities are getting poorer

Newcomers: students & immigrants

People leaving: young families and highly educated people

#3 Dormitory towns

People sleep there, but commute out every day to work in other places

# Nature disappears

How would you make cities attractive again?

Re-urbanisation

How to make cities attractive again:

1. Renovation
   
2. Redevelopment
   
3. New housing in old industrial areas
   
4. New districts on the fringes of cities
   (in the Netherlands: Vinex-districts)

Re-urbanisation =Process in which people move back from rural areas to urban areas (after a period of urban decline)