Development of inner urban areas of cities in EMDCs.

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Development of inner urban areas of cities in EMDCs

In recent decades, inner urban areas of cities in EMDC’s have experienced rapid changes. According to Burgess’s model, inner urban areas refers to the twilight zones just around the CBD, where the oldest housing are found and the inhabitants tend to be poorer people or immigrants

The first city I would study London, capital of UK, located to the south-east of England with River Thames running through in the middle. The most noticeable change in the inner city since the 1950s is the huge drop in population, with a 18% population loss from 1951 to 1981. There are two main reasons, after the WWII, London’s role as centre of world trade declined, which led to a drop in manufacturing employment. From 1951 to 1981, one million manufacturing jobs were lost. Also, as transport develops, decentralization occurs, where rich people move to the suburbs of London for a better living environment.

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However, there is still a huge influx of immigrants into the inner cities, due to pull factors such as hopes to have a better living condition,, who cannot afford high rents in other parts of the city. Therefore, the population density remained high. In 1947, the government introduced the Comprehensive Development Areas, which was aimed at slum clearance and rebuilding to make inner areas less congested. In twenty years, 1.5 million properties had been knocked down, replaced by huge high-rise tower blocks.

In 1978, the Inner Urban Areas Act was passed, which aimed at inner city renewal by ...

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