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