Transcript PROBLEMS WITH URBANIZATION Inner Cities Physical Problems: Deterioration  Filtering-The process of dividing up a large home into small apartments for low income families.

PROBLEMS WITH URBANIZATION
Inner Cities Physical Problems:
Deterioration
 Filtering-The process of dividing up a
large home into small apartments for low
income families. So what is the problem
with that?
Landlords stop maintaining houses
Buildings deteriorate and grow unfit for occupancy
Owners abandon the property
Inner Cities Physical Problems:
Deterioration
 Redlining- drawing lines on a map to identify
areas in which they will refuse to loan money.
So what is the problem with that?
Families who try to fix up homes in the area have
difficulty borrowing money.
Inner City Physical Problems: Urban
Renewal
 Public Housing-is housing reserved for
low-income households, who must pay
30% of their income for rent. So what is
the problem with fixing these places?
•Reduction of public housing because of cost
•Considered unsatisfactory environments for families with
children. The elevators are broken, juveniles terrorize other
people in the hallways, and drug use and crime rates are high.
•Residence are displaced so that the homes can be demolished.
Inner Cities Physical Problems: Urban
Renewal
 Gentrification-the process by which middle-
class people move into deteriorated innercity neighborhoods and renovate the
housing. So what is the problem?
Lower incomes home owners or renters are forced
out their homes because of the rise in taxes or rent.
Inner City Social Problems:
Underclass
 They are trapped in an unending cycle of
economic and social problems.
 Lack of job skills: they lack technical skills or
don’t have any means to get to work
 Homelessness: lack of job or regular income
Inner-City Social Problems: Culture
of Poverty
 80% of children in the inner city live with
only one parent. So what is the problem?
•High crime rates because of drugs, gangs, or other felonies.
•Leads to ethnic and racial segregation.
Inner-City Economic Problems
 Require services but can’t pay for them. So
cities either raise taxes or provide incentives
to bring businesses to downtown.
 Annexation-the process of legally adding land
area to a city. Why don’t people like this now?
Suburb Problems: Peripheral
Model
 An urban area consisting of an inner city
surrounded by large suburban residential and
business areas tied together by a beltway or
ring road
 Edge cities spring up around the beltway or
ring road
 So what is wrong with this?
Suburban Problems: Sprawl
 Progressive spread of development over the
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landscape
New Roads and new utilities may be added to
the cost of the home
Waste land: loss of arable land
Wastes more energy: dependence on
transportation to get every where
Rush Hour