Land Use In Urban Areas (1)

Question 1

Describe and explain how land use changes as you move out from the CBD towards the rural urban fringe in an MEDC city

Answer 1

• In the CBD, there is the city centre and this is where shops, leisure and entertainment are located.
• Housing is very expensive and consists of apartment blocks.
• These are highly sought after and attract professionals who work close by and earn high wages

Question 2

What is the next zone (after CBD)?

Answer 2

• Moving out is the inner city area which consists of a lot of manufacturing industries, however much of this has now closed down.
• Before it had closed down, it provided cheap terraced houses which were small though with little or no green spaces

Question 3

What have inner cities become?

Answer 3

More popular, especially with young adults.

• The reason for this is they are close to office workplaces and the facilities of the city centre
• Recently they have been smartened up and re-developed

Question 4

How does urbanisation differ between richer and poorer countries? (1)

Answer 4

• Happened in late 18th and 19th centuries during the industrial revoultion in richer countries
• Industrial revolution is when factories were first built
• People moved from living in the countryside to find jobs in the newly opened factories

Question 5

How does urbanisation differ between richer and poorer countries? (2)

Answer 5

• Urbanisation began in the LEDCs in 1950s

- The rate of urbanisation happened much faster in richer countries