Part 7: The structure of cities Flashcards
1
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- What is the name for the centre of a city?
A
a. Central Business District (CBD)
2
Q
- What is area around the CBD called?
A
a. The inner city
3
Q
- What is the area around the inner city called?
A
a. Suburbs
4
Q
- What is the area around the edge of the city called?
A
a. The rural-urban fringe
5
Q
- What does commercial mean?
A
a. Where things are sold e.g. shops and offices
6
Q
- What does industrial mean?
A
a. Where things are made
7
Q
- What does residential mean?
A
a. Where people live
8
Q
- What is land use?
A
a. How the land is used in a particular place
9
Q
- What does accessible mean?
A
a. Easy to get to
10
Q
- What does availability mean?
A
a. How easy it is to get something
11
Q
- What are planning regulations?
A
a. The rules about which buildings you can build in a particular place
12
Q
- What is the availability of land in the CBD?
A
a. Low
13
Q
- What is the cost of land in the CBD?
A
a. High
14
Q
- What sort of buildings do planning regulations allow in the CBD?
A
a. Commercial
15
Q
- What sort of buildings are there in the CBD?
A
a. Tall buildings
16
Q
- Why are the buildings tall in the CBD?
A
a. Because land is expensive
b. There is not much land available
17
Q
- Why do people build shops and offices in the CBD?
A
a. Because it is very accessible
18
Q
- What makes the CBD accessible?
A
a. Roads, buses and railway stations
19
Q
- What sort of houses are there in the CBD?
A
a. Flats
20
Q
- What is the availability of land in the inner city?
A
a. Quite low
21
Q
- What is the cost of land in the inner city?
A
a. Quite high
22
Q
- What is the accessibility of land in the inner city?
A
a. Quite high
23
Q
- What is the land use in the inner city?
A
a. Industrial
b. Residential
24
Q
- What sort of buildings do the planning regulations allow in the inner city?
A
a. Factories
b. Houses
25
25. What are the houses like in the inner city?
a. Smaller e.g. terraced houses
26
26. Why are there factories in the inner city?
a. Close to roads and ports
27
27. What is the availability of land in the suburbs?
a. High
28
28. What is the cost of land in the suburbs?
a. Lower than the CBD and inner city
29
29. What is the accessibility of land in the suburbs?
a. Lower than the CBD and inner city
30
30. What sort of buildings do the planning regulations allow in the suburbs?
a. Houses
| b. Shops
31
31. What sort of houses are there in the suburbs?
a. Larger e.g. semi-detached
