London Research Paper

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London is the biggest city in the United Kingdom and Europe and also is a world-class city; therefore, the history of London’s urban development is long and abundantly. As a world-class city, London has a corresponding status internationally, such as transportation, economy, or politics (De Vries, 2006, p98). On the other hand, London also is a biggest foreign exchange markets in the world. People can trade various products in there like gold, coffee, tea, antique, and so on. The development of London is faced with difficulties as well as new opportunities, such as two industrial revolutions, the planning of the region and the modernization planning. The municipal history of London is indispensable the industrial revolution. There’re two times …show more content…
Content of London plan is London as the center in 48 mile radius around and regional classification like concentric circles. First, in London center is the inner ring that population and industry in this area. Second, the ring of suburbs is a well-constructed area to live. And then is Metropolitan Green Belt that includes cropland and outer ring which prevents the city continued to expand (De Oliveira, 2017, p82). This way makes London can develop all the towns they already have and build eight more new towns. Moreover, it’s suitable for London’s population and industry. In addition, the plan has laid the foundation for the urbanization in London. Except the inside-out regional structure, Abercrombie’s London plan also has serval major aspects for planned London city in urban layout, transportation and open space planning. The design of London city in urban layout makes heavy industry and harmful manufacturing enterprise have moved out residential estate. The transportation of London also has changed by the London plan that the railway terminal has simplified into four major stations and connected by subway. Furthermore, the open space planning has linked between park and the Green Island to a green belt in order to connected both inner city and marginal big London’s open space (De Oliveira, 2017, p87-88). The big London plan is successful in the whole. Depending on a UN report, the urbanization in the whole world is 54%, British urbanization is 82% and London account for 100% (UN, 2015). The process of urbanization stabilized in WWII after all policy adjustment. Urban populations occupy 90% of the total population at the end of 20th century. Besides, London is called the most urbanization place in the country (China Development Research Foundation, 2013,

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