3232 - Spatial patterns Of Land Use In Urban Areas

Question 1

What is urban morphology?

Answer 1

How an urban area is laid out

Question 2

What has happened with land patterns with regard to human and physical influence?

Answer 2

Humans are now able to overcome physical limitations and therefore urban forms are more influenced by human factors.

Question 3

What is the main factor affecting land use in high income countries?

Answer 3

Land value

Question 4

Why is land value highest in the city centre?

Answer 4

Greater accessibility

Question 5

What does PLVI stand for?

Answer 5

Peak land value intersection

Question 6

What is the Bid-Rent model?

Answer 6

A diagram illustrating land values falling significantly with increasing distance from the PLVI.

Question 7

What is a recent change in the UK’s land use pattern?

Answer 7

The UK’s pattern of land use today is more complex as other sites have become more of an attraction

Question 8

What happened from the 1980s ?

Answer 8

There was a trend of out of town shopping centres and this affected land values in some cities.

Question 9

What happened from the 1980s?

Answer 9

Secondly land value peaks occurred and altered the pattern of land use. There was an increase in car ownership and advanced infrastructure was developed, meaning the CBD was not the most accessible part of the urban area anymore. This caused edge of town development with free parking.

Question 10

Some city centres have declined in the last 30 years - suggest reasons for this

Answer 10

• 1980s-1990s development of out of town retail parks and decentralisation of business and residential areas.
• push factors of a city centre: high parking costs,,congestion, perception of the city centre as dirty and unsafe
• recent competition from Internet shopping

Question 11

What are the names of the two strategies used to reverse the city centre decline?

Answer 11

1. Town centre Mixed development

2. Development of cultural and heritage headquarters

Question 12

What did the town centre mixed development strategy include?

Answer 12

• wider range of leisure services e.g cinemas, theatres and cafes to attract a wider range of people.
• promotion of street entertainment e.g Covent Garden
  -‘developing nightlife
  Construction of new offices and conference centres
• upmarket apartments

Question 13

What did the ‘development of cultural and heritage headquarters’ strategy do?

Answer 13

• heritage quarters focus on the history of the area more