CASE STUDY- Brighton

URBANISATION

• 1080 sax fishing village called Brighthelmstone
• Slow growth during medival time due to sussex agriculture
• Price regent + rail brought mass tourism (1st of its kind) and rapid growth occured (41%- highest in Europe)
• After wars the suburbs were made
• Green belt made to stop urband sprawl
• A27 by-pass marks end of development
• Creation of new national park emphasis stop of growth

SUBURBANISATION

• Became fashionable to rent/ buy a house in Brighton for the summer
• New industries developed between the old stein + railway
• Terraces of workmen houses built forming the inner city zone around the CBD
• Land E and W of the old stein sold to middle class
• Movement of people  further out as transport improved 
• After WW1 motoried transport expanded the outer suburbs (Hangleton, rottindean and portslade)
• This is the time of classic suburban estate of semi- detached houses
• Post WW2 population grew and council built large housing estates on edge of town to rehome the displaced people from redevelopment of slum housing in town centre
• Tower blocks of…