Explain the evolution of uniform urban landscapes; the effects of common commercial activity, structures, styles of construction and infrastructure.
Homogenisation can be defined as; The process of people, products and places becoming the same.
The homogenisation of landscapes is when places start to become the same. As globalisation occurs cities are starting to look the same.
In the beginning different places look very different from each other, because of globalisation. In the beginning many places were different due to the infrastructure of the cities and towns. But, now most cities/towns are starting to look alike as time progresses due to the influence of globalisation. Due to the takeover of TNC’s many countries are starting to put chains of stores in countries, which then makes it the town look the same as different countries.
I think that countries should, keep a sense of their culture instead of taking down old buildings to put up new ones with chains of stores that are the same in every other country. This ruins the landscape and homogenises it. So then the country does not have it’s own specific ‘look’ to it.
For example:
Dubai, started of as a small fishing town and has developed into one of the richest cities in the world. Since Dubai found oil, and gained a large amount of revenue it has been easier for Dubai to transform their landscape into something that is nearly the same as the global core areas.
Dubai could be a homogenised landscape.
Dubai before:
Dubai after:
Source: http://greenfieldgeography.wikispaces.com/Homogenization+of+landscapes
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