Topic:Population and Settlement Case Study: MEDC Urban Land use Change and Regeneration Location: Glasgow, Scotland. Geographical Keywords • Land use – the different ways that land is used, for example for industry or recreational. • Urban Regeneration – Improving urban areas. • Residential –an area of housing • Zone – an area with mainly one type of land use. Case Study Detail Background • The Industrial Revolution during the nineteenth century allowed Glasgow to grow rapidly. • A former student of Glasgow University, James Watt, was responsible for improving the steam engine and this allowed factories to be powered cheaply using local coal. • The manufacturing of iron, steel and textiles became common and these were soon followed by shipbuilding along the river Clyde. • By the end of the nineteenth century Glasgow was the "Second City of the British Empire" and was producing most of the ships and locomotives in the world. • During this period Glasgow’s population also grew at an incredible rate. • Workers flocked to Glasgow from allover rural Scotland and Ireland in search of jobs and wealth. • Large areas of tenement housing (such as Partick, Govan and the Gorbals) were built to house hundreds of thousands of workers.
