Urban Flashcards
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Features of a CBD
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- Many churches and historical buildings
- Lots of entertainment
- Hotels and tourist facilities
- Where main roads meet
- Tall office blocks
- multi storey car parks
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Inner city features
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- Old factories, docks and warehouses
- Grid iron street pattern
- Straight rows of tenement housing (19th century)
- Few gardens or very small gardens
- Low order (cheap) shops and services
- 3-4 storey housing and tall factories
- High rise flats
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Suburbs features
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- Parks and golf courses
- Large gardens and parks
- Low density of building
- Close to motorways and main roads
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Green belt features
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- Lots of open space with many farms and forestry
- Some developments such as business parks , motorways and shopping
- Little housing
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The concentric zone model
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This model is based on the idea that land values (the amount of money the land costs) are highest in the centre of a town or city.
The further you go out the circle, the less expensive it is. It is more sparsely populated and there is more space.
The fours sections of the CZM are: CBD (Central Business District) Inner City (Old Housing and Industry) Suburbs (New Housing and New industry) Green belt (open land)
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Problems of living in the Gorbals
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- Smoke form factories causes pollution
- There are no parks or gardens
- Bad sanitation
- Poor place to live
- People can catch disease
- Poorly built houses
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The Gorbals
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- Have high storey flats
- Lots of factories, industrial buildings
- Lots of tenement housing next to factories
- Grid iron street pattern
- Good sense of community
- People are sad and fed up
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Inner City Glasgow
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- Had access to nearby raw materials such as coal, iron ore and limestone
- growth of heavy industry (steel, iron works, ship building)
- Good transport links
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Solutions to problems in the Gorbals
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- High rise flats
- Improved housing (New 2 storey tenements built)
- Improved services (New library, health centre and leisure centre)
- Some high rise flats pulled down
- Houses now have private gardens and parks
- New industrial estate with hotels, colleges and other services
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Problems with high rise flats
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- Poorly built, quickly began to degrade
- Suffered from damp
- Many have now been demolished
- No green areas, play parks or amenities such as shops
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Positive changes to Glasgow’s CBD
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- Indoor shopping centres e.g. St Enoch
- Renovation of water front
- Pedestrian areas
- Specialist shops
- Entertainment (Xmas market)
- Focus on tourism (More hotels etc.)
- Renovate transport stations: More links further away
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Negative changes to Glasgow’s CBD
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- High rent and competition lead to shops closing
- Low order shops take over empty buildings
- Buildings knocked down leaving unattractive empty space
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Positives of out of town shopping centres
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- Easy access (beside motorways, train stations and have free parking)
- Rent is much lower than CBD. Less congestion when traveling there and in there.
- Many indoor centres so protected from bad weather
- Popularity of mixed retail and entertainment (shops, restaurants, cinemas)
- Room for expansion if the shops or park as a while is successful
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Negative of out of town shopping centres
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- Destroys countryside/ farmland which is usually in green belt
- Difficult to access for people who have low income
- Traffic congestion on access roads on busy days
- The government had now stopped giving permission for many new proposal developments to protect city and town centres.
- CBD closures means that people on low incomes lose services and suffer most
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Rural push factors
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- Poor water supply
- Low standard of living
- Drought has led to famine so little food available
- Far from hospitals and doctors
- Not a lot of jobs
- Poor education
- Activities sometimes restricted due to religion or gender
