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How Great an Effect Did Urbanisation have On a Scottish Society Between 1880 and 1939? Urbanisation affected the lives of ordinary people in many ways. In the 1880s people in Scotland lived as much in the countryside as in towns and cities. But by 1939 most people lived in cities and towns. This fact alone shows that urbanisation played a huge part in changing Scottish Society. By 1939, 63.4% of a population of over five million lived in the cities. This meant that urban growth caused problems of crowded housing, and social problems such as health and safety. Between 1880 and 1939 many people lived in over crowded and squalid housing. Because of the rapid increase of workers to cities, tenement blocks were built, these buildings of four or five stories contained one or two roomed homes. In 1911 over half the country's urban dwellers inhabited one or two roomed...

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