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Urban population density distribution

Urban population density distribution. Factors affecting population density. Factors affecting population density. Transport factor Socio-economic factor Historical factor Institutional factor. Transport factor.

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Urban population density distribution

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  1. Urban population density distribution Factors affecting population density

  2. Factors affecting population density • Transport factor • Socio-economic factor • Historical factor • Institutional factor

  3. Transport factor Population tends to cluster in area of high accessibility, usually the city centre, provided by converging transport routes.

  4. Transport factor • Improvement in accessibility through transport development may enhance geographical mobility • It facilitates various urban processes like rural-urban migration, suburbanization and counter-urbanization (re-urbanization).

  5. Socio-economic factor It involves the comparison of transport cost and land rent

  6. Socio-economic factor • The greater the distance from the city centre, the greater the transport costs incurred • Land rent is lower due to less keen competition of land (large supply of land in the periphery of the city) • Low land value encourages lower intensity of land use for residential purpose (low-density residential houses) • Occupying larger space (e.g. detached houses with gardens) • It gives rise to the formation of low-density high-income residential suburbs

  7. Socio-economic factor • Low-income groups tend to live closer to the city centre for more immediate access to their working places and lower transport costs • However, the high land value forces the low-income group to live in small units of land • Forming high-density low-income residential area near the city centre (slums in the inner city)

  8. Sheung Wan

  9. Historical factor • Due to historical process of urban development, there would be a tendency for higher density development in old urban areas • It is probably the result of high housing demand in the old days

  10. Institutional factor • Government policy can influence the population density of a city in terms of • Urban planning / land use constraints lower population density in some areas • New town programmes + industrial decentralization  population decentralization in suburbs • Urban redevelopment programmes population regeneration in old urban areas • All these may reduce the population density gradient  more even distribution of population

  11. Yuen Long

  12. Tung Chung

  13. Tsuen Wan

  14. Tai Po

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