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The Story of Dublin
Understand and take in but you don’t have to learn all that we read.
I will be able to:
1. Say what “Urbanisation” means.2. Give examples of “Economic Activities
“Administrative Activities” and “Social Activities” that bring about development of a town or city.
3. Name the 6 stages in Dublin’s development.
Urbanisation
Growth in the number and sizes of urban areas.
What is an urban area?
Economic Activities
• Taking raw materials, making products, selling them.
• Transportation.• Services
– Banking, insurance etc.
TRADING GOODS AND SERVICES
Administrative
• Government• Taxation – revenue commissioners• Passports, licences, grants, etc.• County Councils water management etc.
Social Activities
Provision of housing and community services and leisure facilities.
Theatre, cinema, sports centres, stadiums, tennis/soccer/golf clubs.
Dublin
Dublin
1. Vikings
• Black pool – deep – long boats.• Dubh linn• When?• By the 10th Century or by 900 AD
• Viking Discovery Tour – amphibious vehicle.
2. Normans
• Took control in 1170 • By 1300s it was surrounded by a stone wall
and Dublin Castle was built.• Important port for trade with England.Medievl – narrow streets,
3. Georgian Dublin
• Why georgian?• 1700s• Walls knocked• Wider streets• Elegant squares• Canals for trade• Manufacturing – the liberties.
4. 1800s
• Wealthy moved from city centre.• 1800 Act of Union • Dublin declined• Slum areas• Famine
5. 1900s
• Rapid growth• Economic – railway, port, manufacturing,
banks, businesses.• Social – rural to urban migration and
expansion of Dublin outwards.• Administrative – after 1921. • Trying to move civil service out into other
counties.
Administrative not all in Dublin anymore
• Decentralisation • Ballina – Dep of Environment and RSA• Sligo – Dep of Social and Family Affairs.• Athlone – Dep of Education and Science.
And today…….
• 1/3 population• Primate cities.
Urban Sprawl
• The growth of suburbs.• Cities taking over countryside.
QUESTIONS2008 HL SQ 17
2000 Short question 10B
Urban Sprawl is:
The spread of the city into surrounding countryside.
A rapid increase in the numner of tall builkings in a city.
The growth of a city’s traffic.
The fast growth of a city’s population.
2006 Long Questions