Why are the east ends of world cities often poorer?
Posted: May 12th, 2017, 8:33 am
I found this article in today's Guardian interesting. I understood why it applied to London but I hadn't considered that the same applies world-wide with few exceptions, Sydney Australia being one.
It also goes on to consider why in long established cities the central areas tend to be wealthier, while the outer suburbs tend to be less so. In more recently established cities [for example some US cities, Detroit, Washington DC etc] you can see the reverse, the centre might border on a ghetto, while the suburbs are where the wealthy aspire to be. It outlines the reasons for that too. Come to think of it London evolved through a similar 'doughnut-isation' between c1780-1880 when the wealthier aspired to get away from the squalid and polluted centre of town, for the cleaner, leafier and more spacious newly developed suburbs west of Park Lane/Edgeware Road.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017 ... -east-ends
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It also goes on to consider why in long established cities the central areas tend to be wealthier, while the outer suburbs tend to be less so. In more recently established cities [for example some US cities, Detroit, Washington DC etc] you can see the reverse, the centre might border on a ghetto, while the suburbs are where the wealthy aspire to be. It outlines the reasons for that too. Come to think of it London evolved through a similar 'doughnut-isation' between c1780-1880 when the wealthier aspired to get away from the squalid and polluted centre of town, for the cleaner, leafier and more spacious newly developed suburbs west of Park Lane/Edgeware Road.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017 ... -east-ends
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