TITLE:
The Research on Demographic Change Patterns, Increase Causes and Issues in the Major Cities of the UK after the WWII
AUTHORS:
Renrui Wang
KEYWORDS:
WWII, Demographic Change, Urban Expansion, Cultural Reform, Population Ageing
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.10 No.4,
December
30,
2022
ABSTRACT: Urban population change has always been an important reference data for
the study of urban sustainable development. This paper refers to the data on
the population change of British cities after WWII and focuses on the
population change and urban development of seven cities, namely London, Manchester,
Liverpool, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Bristol, and Coventry, through the research
method of data analysis. Finally, the paper concludes that, through data
analysis, the essay broadly classifies the seven UK cities studied into three
categories of cities based on the reasons for population increase in the late
20th century. The first category is those cities where population
change is mainly due to economic reasons such as urban expansion; the main representative
cities are London and Manchester. The second
category is for cities where the population change is mainly due to the reform
and development of urban culture. The third category is cities where the main
reason for population change is mobility and migration. Typical examples are
the “North-South Drift” represented by Birmingham and the “Urban-Rural
Shift” represented by Bristol.