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The Rural Urban Fringe
Dec 11th
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Using thorough research (referring to web sites, text book(s), and your own notes (including any notes on relevant videos you have watched)), answer the following questions:
1) What changes are taking place at the Rural Urban Fringe as a result of urbanisation?
Make sure you refer to:
- urban sprawl
- counterurbanisation
- recent developments
It is worth structuring examples of recent development at the RUF as part of your answer. For example:
- Residential function: commuter villages / "suburbanised villages"
- Industrial function: New high-tech industry – especially Science Parks [example: Cambridge Science Park, UK]
- Retail function: Recent Out Of Town Shopping Centres [example: Merry Hill, UK]
2) What are some of the main advantages of these changes (developments)?
3) What are some of the main disadvantages of these changes (developments)?
4) What are some of the solutions to the problems caused by overdevelopment of the Rural Urban Fringe?
London Docklands Case Study
Apr 21st
Here is an excellent video summary of changes over time in the London Docklands, courtesy of BBC’s Learning Zone.
Use these resources to build up case-study material for the decline and regeneration of the London Docklands in East London, UK.
General Information on the Inner City:
geobytesgcse.blogspot.com on the inner city
rchambers/GeoBytes on the Inner City
Information on London Docklands:
rchambers/GeoBytes on the London Docklands
geobytesgcse.blogspot.com on the London Docklands
lddc-history.org.uk on the London Docklands
lddc-history.org.uk on the Isle of Dogs
Some of the slides on this presentation are very useful:
Regeneration Presentation from museumoflondon.org.uk
Think you have a good understanding of what happened? Try this interactive quiz:
