British cities

mass migration of workers from the countryside to cities contributing to mass-production of goods in factories and strong economic growth in areas such as the textile industry, mark this period as predominantly a revolution, however, it was also partially an evolution as poor working conditions were gradually addressed over a much longer time span. One of the core

today. With the building of factories, people had to move to where the work was and most work was in cities. Previously most people had lived in rural communities but that changed between 1700 and 1850 as the percentage of the population living in cities grew from 17% to 50% and the influx of so many people to an urban area brought many challenges. The governments had to start planning their cities and adding infrastructure such as improved roadways, sidewalks, that were later lit by streetlamps,

Investigating the effect of rural-urban migration on the four districts of the North West province in South Africa using Manova technique. INTRODUCTION This proposal is about the effect of rural-urban migration on the four districts of the North West province in South Africa. It entails the background of rural-urban migration as well as the statement of the problem, main objectives, other specific objectives, rationale, hypotheses, identification of variables, the theories of other people concerning

Revolution was a time of great growth and development; manufacturing and production boomed, populations grew, and people became more inter-connected. Britain served as the birthplace of the revolution for many reasons. With many colonies dependent on British goods, manufacturers could no longer rely on the personal schedules of cottage industry workers to deliver the goods they needed. With increasing developments in technology, and an abundance of iron and coal ore, factories and other industrialized

embraced the ideals of the industrial revolution, which led the city to become the industrial heart of England. Since the development of industry was on such a huge scale, there were both pessimistic and positive responses to it. Numerous were concerned about health changes due to the relegate in living standards, as well as the introduction of dangerous and un-hygienic factory, while others were more concerned with the visual appeal that the city had to offer. Overall, the majority of the population highly

Abstract This paper will compare and contrast the landscape of the urban area of the City of Brighton and Hove and the rural area of the District of Wealden, which are both located in East Sussex County, England. Compare and Contrast Two Areas of the Sussex Landscape-Urban Area of Brighton and Hove City and the Rural Country Side of the District of Wealden There is an impressively wide spectrum of divergence within the sheer nature of certain landscape entities. For some landscape

I have often been asked by architecture students and professionals visiting Chandigarh on how it feels having grown up and educated from this city - a single stroke, paradigm shifting undertaking by the father of modernism himself. I reply with an inherently paradoxical answer. While on one hand it has served as a major source of my exposure towards architecture and urbanism, alongside shaping my perception and critique of urbanity, it has also engendered in me a curiosity towards the ‘other’, the

Introduction Ancient Pompeii was a planned city, like countless other Roman cities, military camps and forts. Roman colonies founded on open field sites display Roman grid planning, or Centuriation, at its most elaborate such as at Cesena, Padua, and Florence. Here, at Pompeii, a famous Italian town in antiquity because of its excellent preservation caused by the volcanic explosion of Mt. Vesuvius during the first century AD. The streets, canals, agriculture plots and public spaces were laid

1. Urbanization deals with the number of people in urban places and also refers to the process of people moving to cities or other heavily settled places. The term urbanization also describes changes in social organization that happens as a consequence of heavily populated areas. Urbanization is a process. It is what happens when rural areas are changed into urban areas. According to Louis Wirth, the components of urbanization include size, density, and heterogeneity and these are the independent

American industrial city, and place it in the context of worldwide trends of urbanization and mass migration (the European diaspora) Cities grew up and out, with such famed architects as Louis Sullivan working on and perfecting skyscrapers (first appearing in Chicago in 1885). The city grew from a small compact one that people could walk through to get around to a huge metropolis that required commuting by electric trolleys. Electricity, indoor plumbing, and telephones made city life more alluring