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Finally, I'd like to use Brooklyn as a case study of local change. Brooklyn's population has changed significantly over the years and this can most easily be seen in its economic activity. Tracing the Brooklyn industries back from the current financial services companies, to manufacturing in the 1950s, to shipbuilding in the 1900s. we can map this onto average wages and therefore the type and class of resident. And this has affected the population density too, which has been steadily increasing over the past hundred years from 1.5 million in 1900, to two million in the middle of the twentieth century, to the 2.3 million inhabitants today. In fact, Brooklyn is suffering from considerable overpopulation now. But this large population increase was due not to employment but the building of the subway which linked Brooklyn to other areas of New York. Prior to this. at the beginning of the twentieth century, the only means of transportation was by car or bus via the Brooklyn Bridge. Another factor which traditionally increases the desire for the middle classes to live in a particular place is the type of local heritage, especially for those people with young children. In Brooklyn this is evident in the increase in population after the construction of Coney Island. The modern-day equivalent of this is the restoration of Prospect Park, which has brought more middle-income families into the area.