TTO 2 - City growth The Netherlands

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The Netherlands

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Sprawl

Conurbation

Suburbanisation

Why did de-industrialisation take place? Drag the correct answer(s) to the box. 

Invention of mass transport

Because of strickt rules 

Lower wages in other countries

What contributed to the suburbanisation around Manchester? Drag the correct answer(s) to the box. 

More people could afford a car

The slums in the cities

Urban sprawl

Speculators building houses outside the city

Industrialisation

What happened in Manchester? Put the following words in the correct order.

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Living in slums

Industrialisation

Regeneration

Suburbanisation

Amsterdam & The Netherlands

Industrial revolution in The Netherlands

Started 2nd half of the 19th century, nearly 100 years after the start in the UK

Development of the population of Amsterdam

Poor living circumstances

Also here in the Netherlands living circumstances could be very poor.

Jordaan

Narrow streets

One family per room

Hardly any light coming in

Result of housing shortages

Housing associations

Improved housing in the cities, starting 2nd half of 19th century

Housing act 1901

- Government could regulate

- Could demolish houses

- Could give subsidies for building houses

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After the second world war