A post-industrial city is a city largely based on the intangible yet valuation production and consumption of services. It places the focus on development of tertiary sectors, human capitals and technology innovations rather than the manufacturing of goods. It is the direct result from deindustrialization in the latter decades of the 20th century. A city functions as a place governed by assigned administrative body and acts as a center of trade for the surrounding area. When economy concentrates more on development of the service industry to bring growth to the city by shifting away from goods manufacturing to services producing, it causes the declines in manufacturing industry of the city. A post- industrial city is then formed and is characterized by the process of change and continuity of industrial city through transition of sectors, change in perspective of the socio-economic group in valuating knowledge, implementation of technologies, distribution of income and lastly, the urban restructuring of the city.
In the post-industrial city, service sectors have most of the attention from the economy, thus becoming the dominant industry of the city. It is an important criterion to characterize and differentiate the city from previous industrial era, which was focus more on manufacturing of goods. The outcome of deindustrialization within the economy is shown in tertiarisation that occurs through the economical shifts from goods manufacturing to production of services. This caused the declines in manufacturing job, but more job opportunities are created for people to work in service industries. As presumed by Daniel Bell, an American sociologist, he claimed that the rise in white collar jobs will outweigh and grow in a much faste...
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...mber of commercial aircraft movements of 323,750 from all over the world in year 2012 making it the 7th busiest airport in the world.
In a nutshell, it is clearly proven with the stated evident that Singapore has the characteristics of a post-industrial city as well as it fulfilled many of the characteristic and is able to function as a global city that is influential to the world economy. Its economy is powerful, diversifies, connected, innovative and definitely a role model for the world and hope to grow beyond the current stage. Singapore has a constrain of land spaces that slowed down its growth but it has proposed for the future 40 years to become the Asia’s most liveable city and a leading cultural capital in Asia to increase its competitiveness with the rest of the world showing the application of relationship between geography and planning in this case.
Today Malaysia and Singapore are geographically the same rich tropical and dynamic economy, with the same geographic problems. A health problem, with some endemic malaria, has been checked, which transformed their economy and way of life by understanding their environment. Almost eradicating malaria from their land shows what an understanding of geography and history can do.
Despite the development of new machineries, the demand for worker remained relatively high due to the growing numbers of cities. By ...
The industrial cities that spawned during and after the birth of the Industrial Revolution were very different from the cities that existed before to the revolution. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, cities were a market where trade goods could be bought and sold. Trappers and hunters would come into towns to sell their goods to shoppers who were eager to obtain these items. Blacksmiths and barbershops, saloons and banks, farmers and stable masters were typically the primary typical businesspersons within a typical pre-industrial revolution city. The traditional American city went through many drastic changes in a short period of time during the Industrial Revolution, and would never be the same. Some may claim that American cities during the Industrial Revolution were suffering due to the sudden growth that they were experiencing. Although American cities were in fact riddled with problems during the Industrial Revolution, the innovations to solve these problems would change the shape of America forever, for the better.
Throughout the 19th century, industrialization was a turning point in the United States that led to huge changes in society, economics and politics. The incoming growth of factories had positives and negatives effects. Two specific changes were the new government regulations and the increasing immigration. These changes were extremely important because they settled the bases of the country.
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Great Britain went through change in all phases of life with the industrial revolution. Scientific improvements and technological modernizations brought growing industrial and agricultural production. The biggest changes were in rural areas, where the local land sometimes became urban and industrialized because of advances in agriculture and industry.
The Anthropocene marks a point in time where human activities were able to greatly alter the environment, some historians believe that it marked the point in time where the industrial revolution began (1700CE to 1900CE). The Industrial revolution essentially was mankind’s breakthrough into modernity, the rapid advancements in technology and the utilisation of fossil fuels gave man a seemingly infinite supply of energy that could be used to transform manual processes into automated ones which was a massive game changer for the manufacturing, communications and transportation industries.(1)
The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transport, and technology had a profound effect in North America. The industrial revolution marked a major turning point in history because it changed every aspect of life in America and the country as a whole. People started replacing ploughs and other tools for machines that could do twice the work. While others moved to large cities and started working in factories and other businesses. Huge industries such as the textile, steel, and coal industry came out and had a profound effect on the industrial revolution but, they would not have been extremely successful if it was not for railroads. The railroads played a vital role in the development and success of other industries. The railroads triggered the biggest leap in transportation in history. Through technological and entrepreneurial innovations and the creation of steam-powered locomotives, the development of trains as public carriers of passengers and freight, brought forth the railroad. The railroad industry changed the nature of production because it became an important energy source that replaced human and animal power. Due to the important role of the railroads, workers became more productive, items were being shipped more quickly, and resources were becoming available to everyone including the working and middle class and not only the wealthy. The railroads became to be known as one of the biggest leaps of transportation in history. This is because it set up the next fifty years of America’s prosperity. The railroads became extremely popular and useful during the 1800’s to millions of people and other large companies. Although there were many indu...
Industrialization of America Jessica Baker Mrs. T. Westling English III Accelerated 03 April 2017 Outline Thesis Statement: Even though cities became crowded and unsanitary, industrialization improved the standard of living for the average citizen. Introduction: I.Growth of Cities A.More Jobs B.Better Opportunities II.Growth of Cities Led to Skyscrapers A.Sanitation, Clean Water, Fire, Crimes/Gangs B.Economic Prosperity III.Inner Cities Became Crowded and Unsanitary A.Waste B.Lack of Space IV.Streetcar and Electric Trolley A.Made Transportation
After WWII, the industrial revolution began to decline and economic focus was being shifted from manufacturing to service. Deindustrializatio...
There were many revolutions that happened throughout the world. The one that really shaped modern day society was the Industrial Revolution in Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries. It changed the whole of Britain and would later change the world. Despite the early social problems of child labour and sanitation created by the Industrial Revolution, its long-term social reforms including; the Factory Act and the Public Health Act outweighed the short-term issues encountered.
Shatkin, G. (January 01, 2014). Reinterpreting the Meaning of the ‘Singapore Model’: State Capitalism and Urban Planning. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38, 1, 116-137.
In the late eighteenth century, the Industrial Revolution made its debut in Great Britain and subsequently spread across Europe, North America and the rest of the world. These changes stimulated a major transformation in the way of life, and created a modern society that was no longer rooted in agricultural production but in industrial manufacture. Great Britain was able to emerge as the world’s first industrial nation through a combination of numerous factors such as natural resources, inventions, transport systems, and the population surge. It changed the way people worked and lived, and a revolution was started. As stated by Steven Kreis in Lecture 17, “England proudly proclaimed itself to be the "Workshop of the World," a position that country held until the end of the 19th century when Germany, Japan and United States overtook it.”
A general situation of urbanization trend in developing countries and developed countries is increasing. In 18th Century only 3% of the world total population lived in urban areas but as projected in 2000 this number will increase at above 50% (UN as cited in Elliot, 1999, p. 144). According to UN (as cited in Elliot, 1999, p.144), it is figured that the total urban population in developing countries has increased from approximately 400 millions people in 1950 to approximately 2000 millions people in 2000. At the same time, total urban population in developed countries is double...
There are three kinds of development in megacities we would like to explore in this paper, they are sustainable development, economic development and human development. Those kinds of development face many problems in megacities. In 1950 there were only New York and Tokyo as megacities and now in this 21 century the number of megacities are increasing.In 2013 noted there are 28 megacities (New Geography, 2013). Industrialization in developing countries is the main reason why the poor peasant in rural area moved to the cities in the name of better job and higher wages. This urbanization will change the population proportion which is decreasing the rural population and on the other side, increasing the population of urban areas. This continuing movement will inevitably create big and even bigger community in the city and in the end a megacity will be formed. This big number of population influences development of megacities.
Urbanization is the process of becoming a city or intensification of urban elements. Since modernization, the meaning of urbanization mostly became the transformation that a majority of population living in rural areas in the past changes to a majority living in urban areas. However, urbanization differs between the developed and developing world in terms of its cause and the level of its negative outcomes. Korea, as one of the developing countries, experienced what is called ‘ overurbanization,’ and it experienced a number of negative consequences of it, although it could achieve a great economic development by it. This paper examines how urbanization differs between the West and the rest of the world, the characteristics and process of urbanization in Korea, problems sprung from its extreme urbanization, and government policies coping with population distribution.