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1. Human Geography (Assignment VI)
---ARGHYADEEP SAHA
BSc (Hons.) Geography (SEM-II)
Roll No: - UG/05/BSGEO/2019/017
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02-06-2020 15:27:01
DEDUCE THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS
Introduction:-
Dongguan is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial
city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north,
Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the south, and the Pearl River to the west. Geographically, the
city is mostly hilly to the east and flat in the west, with 115.98 kilometres (72.07 mi) of shoreline. Of
Dongguan's total area, 27% is water, 25% forest land, and 13% arable land, while 35% of its land area
has been fully developed. The city and province have been the recent focus of press and journalist
attention with coverage of the many young Chinese workers, principally females (so-called factory
girls), from agricultural areas who work in the area's factories and manufacturing/assembly facilities,
where many are housed in large dormitories, usually several to a room. Dongguan had as well a
variety of types of brothels, massage parlours, nightclubs, sauna centres and karaoke bars. The city
had more than 120 top-end luxury hotels and hundreds of other mid-range places that offer illegal
sexual services or lease floors to sex operators, and many parts of the broader service sector benefit
from the trade brought by visitors. Although much of the business is illegal, police operations to limit
these activities were for a long time largely ineffective, in part because corrupt members of the local
administration and other officials have business interests in the sector.
Socio-Economic Status:-
1. Old City Centre
2. High Rise Residential and Commercial Areas
3. Sub Commercial Areas
Social Status:-
1. General Residential Areas
2. Low Density Sub Urban Areas
3. Old-Age Community
4. Historical Cultural Areas
Economic Status:-
1. Administration Centre
2. Agriculture Centre
3. Sub Commercial Areas
4. High Rise Residential and Commercial Areas
5. Old City Centre
6. Industry Community Areas

2. Human Geography (Assignment VI)
---ARGHYADEEP SAHA
BSc (Hons.) Geography (SEM-II)
Roll No: - UG/05/BSGEO/2019/017
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02-06-2020 15:27:01
Ethnic Status:-
1. Old Age Community
2. High Rise Residential and Commercial Areas
3. Historical Cultural Areas
4. Administration Centre
5. Agriculture Centre
6. Old City Centre
Old City Centre:-
A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a
city. The urban centre of a city is called the "city centre" or "urban core". In many cities, it is the
historical city centre and the cultural and commercial centre. Historically, the Chinese Business
Development (CBD) often occupied one portion of the city centre. But, presently larger cities have
often developed CBDs or financial districts that occupy a part of the city centre or are outside the
historical city centre completely. Social Status creates unique retail environments that act as a canvas
for its brands to work season after season, exposing the customer to new trends, styles and brands. At
Social Status, the purpose is work hard to eventually play harder, embodying the constant
commitment needed to accomplish continual growth and success.
High Rise Residential and Commercial Areas:-
High-rise commercial residential complex is a common form of the complex building. The form of
the high-rise commercial residential complex building is formed a preliminary to the business services
and residential function, based on some auxiliary building space. The high-rise commercial residential
complex building has three dimensional spaces. The functional organization formed the high-rise
commercial residential complex building to be high density, large capacity. It comes to be a multi-
level interlaced structure, complex spatial structure. Living function is the basic function of the high-
rise commercial residential complex building. Business function is the important constitute elements.
The two main functions and auxiliary functions complement each other. Under the background of
high-rise building increasingly integrated, high-rise residential and commercial complex building is
bound to a trend of high-rise residential and commercial building in the future. A variety of the
architectural forms of high-rise residential and commercial building have been analysed. The results
described above are also expected to help the design of high-rise residential and commercial complex
building.
General Residential Areas:-
These include single-family housing, multi-family residential, or mobile homes. Zoning for residential
use may permit some services or work opportunities or may totally exclude business and industry. It
may permit high density land use or only permit low density uses. Residential zoning usually includes
a smaller FAR (floor area ratio) than business, commercial or industrial/manufacturing zoning. The
area may be large or small.

3. Human Geography (Assignment VI)
---ARGHYADEEP SAHA
BSc (Hons.) Geography (SEM-II)
Roll No: - UG/05/BSGEO/2019/017
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02-06-2020 15:27:01
Administration Centre:-
An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or
the place where the central administration of a commune is located. An Administrator provides office
and administrative support to either a team or individual. This role is vital for the smooth-running of a
business. Duties may include fielding telephone calls, receiving and directing visitors, word
processing, creating spread sheets and presentations, and filing.
Industry Community Areas:-
As populations grow, and mechanization is further refined, often to the level of automation, many
workers shift to expanding service industries. Industrial society makes urbanization desirable, in part
so that workers can be closer to centres of production, and the service industry can provide labour to
workers and those that benefit financially from them, in exchange for a piece of production profits
with which they can buy goods. This leads to the rise of very large cities and surrounding suburb areas
with a high rate of economic activity. These urban centres require the input of external energy sources
in order to overcome the diminishing returns of agricultural consolidation, due partially to the lack of
nearby arable land, associated transportation and storage costs, and are otherwise unsustainable. This
makes the reliable availability of the needed energy resources high priority in industrial government
policies.
Low Density Sub Urban Areas:-
Suburban areas are lower density areas that separate residential and commercial areas from one
another. They are either part of a city or urban area, or exist as a separate residential community
within commuting distance of a city. Sprawl is pattern of development. Many planners consider
sprawl to be low quality growth and expansion. Sprawl is often described by four factors:
1. low development density,
2. separated homes, shops and workplaces,
3. lack of activity centres and downtowns, and
4. Poor street connectivity.
Historical Cultural Areas:-
Historical cultural regions are geographic areas which at some point in time had a cultural, ethnic,
linguistic or political basis, regardless of present-day borders. They are used as delimitations for
studying and analysing social development of period-specific cultures without any reference to
contemporary political, economic or social organisations. The fundamental principle underlying this
view is that older political and mental structures exist which exercise greater influence on the spatial-
social identity of individuals than is understood by the contemporary world, bound to and often
blinded by its own worldview.

4. Human Geography (Assignment VI)
---ARGHYADEEP SAHA
BSc (Hons.) Geography (SEM-II)
Roll No: - UG/05/BSGEO/2019/017
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02-06-2020 15:27:01
New Residential Areas:-
A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates. These include single-family housing,
multi-family residential, or mobile homes. Largely rural, large tracts of land may have no services
whatever, thus residents seeking services must use a motor vehicle or other transport, so the need for
transport has resulted in land development following existing or planned transport infrastructure such
as rail and road. Developments patterns may be regulated by restrictive covenants contained in the
deeds to the properties in the development, and may also result from or be reinforced by zoning.
Restrictive covenants are not easily changed when the agreement of all property owners is required.
The area so restricted may be large or small.
Agriculture Areas:-
Agricultural society is any community whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops
and farmland. Such a society may acknowledge other means of livelihood and work habits but
stresses the importance of agriculture and farming. They have been the most common form of socio-
economic organization for most of recorded human history. Cultural differences within agrarian
societies are greater than the differences between them. Caste systems, as found in India, are much
more typical of agrarian societies where lifelong agricultural routines depend upon a rigid sense of
duty and discipline. The emphasis in the modern West on personal liberties and freedoms was in large
part a reaction to the steep and rigid stratification of agrarian societies.
Old Age Community:-
The old-age industries have expanded fast and attracted a large amount of social capital, but there
should be a more effective supply of targeted and customized services and products. Compared with
staying in nursing homes, over 84 per cent of Chinese senior citizens prefer to stay at home and
receive elderly-care services in their own communities, according to research jointly carried out by a
national association, the China Research Centre on Aging (CRCA) and internet company Tencent.
Enterprises are moving fast to tap into the potential demand. Taikang Insurance Group, one of the
country's major insurers, has invested in and put elderly care institutions into operation in four cities
including Beijing and Shanghai. China Life, another major insurer, has similar projects. Seniors
showed greater enthusiasm for buying smartphones, smart watches and SLR cameras online than
those aged between 45 and 60.