Urbanization - Bristol

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  • The earth west is sparsely populated, eg the Highlands of Scotland
  • This is due to poor weather and high relief making conditions difficult to live there
  • The south east of the UK is densely populated due to fertile farming land
  • Human factors make areas attractive, like coal mining in the north east (County Durham
  • Job opportunities, in the south East are greater like London, so more people move there
  • Population distribution
    The way the population is spread out across an area
  • Sparsely populated
    • Few people in an area, primary industry
  • Densely populated
    • Many people in an area, eg per krs squar
  • Core city
    A city with regional importance, atracting people from elsewhere
  • Types of industry
    • Primary industry (Extracting raw materials, eg fase Sheran coal miner)
    • Secondary industry (Manufacturing)
    • Tertiary industry (Providing service, eg sing bread in a shop)
    • Quaternary industry (Research and Development and high tech industries, eg ROD developer.)
  • Integrated Transport System (ITS)

    The public transport network in Bristal joins together bus trand tra
  • Urban features
    • Urban greening
    • Urban sprawl
    • Green belt
    • Greenfield sites
    • Brownfield sites
    • Deprivation
    • Regeneration
    • Sustainable city
  • Urban greening
    The process of creating more parks and planting trees in adity
  • Urban sprawl
    A city expands the countryside, building on greenfald
  • Green belt
    The crde of protected land arcend a city to prevent building on
  • Greenfield sites
    Land previously never bet on before
  • Brownfield sites

    Land that has been built on before
  • Deprivation
    A lack of income, educasian, healthcare providian, employm and poor crime attics in an
  • Regeneration
    The precess of improving an area by creating sew industry and changing the provision of building
  • Sustainable city
    A city that has been developed to meet the ecceamic, social and environmental sets of the future
  • Sustainable development
    Meeting the needs of the caveet generation without compromising the needs of the futare generation
  • Fewer entertainment opportunities are available in the north of the UK, so it d papulated
  • Bristol located in the SW, along the Bristol Channel, sest to the M canidar. It has was
  • Bristol has many internationaleks, a the airport and a port
  • Bristol is attractive because it has 2 universities, meer tech hab and Bristal O Ohestra)
  • Migrants are attracted to Aristal, creating big carrials the the St Paul's camel
  • There is a big Push and can pepulation in Brata
  • Social and economic opportunities in Bristol
    • Two football: Bristol City and Bristol Rovers
    • Vibrant rasic scene: Coltce Hall hosts concerts
    • Vibrant theatre scese Bristal Od v
    • Plenty of chopping Cabot Chrous and Cribbs
    • Bal Harbourside has wightclubs and br
    • Major tech hub: Andrean Animations based here
    • Aslation industry based in Brita Airbus and OKN
    • Defence Procurement Agency employs 10,000 people
    • Superfast Broadband walable and contact with educated worldorce from universities
  • Bristol is trying to improve the civ
  • Brutal has creased the number of jobs in their low-carbon industries
  • 100 wlectric car charging points have been installed in the city
  • Transport system has been developed, Inking buses to treirs and trans. This improves public trampo
  • Regeneration
    Parts of the city have been returned to parks to geen the chy
  • More than a third of Bristol is open space, and 30% will be covered is trees.
  • Dereliction in perts of the city means houses are left to rumble and f
  • Warehouses on the edge of the river are handed
  • Urban sprawl means Bristal is ending ao greenfield sites, destroying
  • Brownfields are being used for 32,000 new havas by 2026
  • Warts choosal is an tssee in Bratel, in population gr
  • Increasingly wete is being recycled