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Sheffield is an
industrial city in the north of England; it is the fifth
biggest municipality in England.
Population - 513,000 .
Area - 36238 hectares.
Density of population -
14 persons per hectare
Note: this density does does not reflect the true situation
as it is experienced by those living within the built-up
area. The density within the built-up area, excluding both
the rural area and the Peak Park, is just over 40 persons
per hectare.
Greenstructure
and Urban Planning - Case Study - Sheffield &endash;UK -
Landscape
© Anne R.
Beer - 2003
Figure 1- UK &endash;
Location of Sheffield
Figure 2 - Population
and Density - Sheffield Metropolitan District - 2001
Census
Figure 3- Sheffield -
relative density across the city
Figure 4 - Sheffield
Metropolitan District Land-use - © Anne R. Beer
1998
Figure 5 -Sheffield
Land-use (excluding the land within the Peak District
national Park)
Figure
6 - Greenspace in various European cities - table prepared
for COST C11 study by Eva Erhart, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute
for Biological Agriculture and Applied Ecology, Vienna from
data supplied by participant cities
Note: half Sheffield's
agricultural land is moorland (upland heather, grass and
scrub) with a carrying capacity of only 1 sheep per hectare
- its main use is for recreation (including privarte
game-shooting but this is for a few weeks in the late summer
and autumn only). This land is classed as agricultural
upland.
Rotherham adjoins
Sheffield to its east and has a population of 248,000 -
which brings the population of the contiguous built up area
to over 700,000 persons. The two towns are part of the South
Yorkshire County administrative area which includes the old
coalfield and manufacturing towns - together they have a
population of over 1,200,000. South Yorkshire lies at the
southern end of the Yorkshire and Humberside Region of
England.
All photographs are
© Anne R. Beer, 2003 but users are free to download and
use as they wish, with the proviso that the copyright is
always acknowledged. Students may use the text as they wish
provided they again acknowledge the sources of the
text.
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