This document discusses factors that have impacted population changes in London over the past 400 years. It mentions improvements in transportation allowing London to grow outside the central city as people could commute to work. It also notes that large numbers of factories in London attracted more workers and encouraged additional development. The document further discusses people migrating to London from other parts of the UK and world in search of jobs, and how the perception of London has changed over time due to regeneration and increased tourism.

1. To do with geography An Idea
Which Geographical Concept?
Match the Geographical Concept with the correct reason for population changes
in London.

2. 1. The rapid change in transport
technology which meant that the
ships increased in size and could no
longer fit into the inner London
Ports.
Change, Accessibility
2. Counter-urbanisation. People no
longer wanted to live in a large city
and wanted to have more space and
live in the countryside. Due to
improvements in transportation
they could still travel to work every
day.
Process, Location, Accessibility, Change
3. Improvements in transport meant
that London could grow outside of
the central city as people could
travel into the city to work.
Accessibility, Distance, Change
4. Due to the large amount of
Industry in London and the lack of
restrictions on what could be
burnt, the city suffered from bad
fogs during the early 1950s.
Perception, Process (urbanisation)
5. As large numbers of factories
developed in London it attracted
more people to the city looking for
work. It also encouraged more
factories to be built in the city.
Process (cumulative causation), Change,
Location, Accessibility
6. People decided to move to the city
of London from Ireland and other
countries in the Commonwealth
looking for work.
Process (Migration), Perception
7. London was the centre of a large
Empire and ships and visitors
arrived from all over the world.
Perception

3. So what has happened in London
recently?

4. The Perception of London changed
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd11cRuljMk

5. Tourism!

6. Regeneration.
Renewing and rebuilding an area to
improve it.

7. Migration – people moving from other areas of
the UK and the world in search of jobs in London.

8. Task – Produce a Mind Map to show all the things
that have caused the population of London to
change in the last 400 years.
Make sure you include the following things;
Migration, Transport Improvements, Industrial Revolution, Perception,
Pollution, World War II, Counter-urbanisation, Cumulative causation, The
Greenbelt, Tourism, Regeneration, Technological developments……
What has caused the
population of London to
change?