Urban and rural areas Flashcards
What is the CBD?
Central business district
- oldest part of town
- mainly shops, offices, entertainments
What is the inner city?
- built in nineteenth century
- old factories
- stone tenement houses
- brick terraced houses
What is the suburbs?
- built in the twentieth and twenty-first century
- mainly detached and semi-detached houses
- many parks
What is an industrial centre?
Where there are many jobs in factories and offices
What is a market centre?
Where farmers buy and sell their produce
What is a service centre?
Where there are many jobs in shops, entertainment
What is a tourist resort?
Where people go on holiday
What is a retirement centre?
Where many senior citizens choose to live
What is a port?
Where ships load and unload goods
What are the features of a CBD?
- necklace of churches
- where main roads meet
- main railway and bus stations
- high order shops and entertainments
- hotels and tourist facilities
- office blocks
- tallest buildings
- densely packed buildings
- lack of residential land use
What are the features of a inner city?
- dates from nineteenth century
- straight rows of tenements, terraced houses
- few/small gardens
- old factories, docks, warehouses
- low order shops and services
- 3-4 storey houses and tall factories
- high density buildings
- railway and canals
- heavy traffic
- lots of waste land
- grid iron pattern streets
- polluted environment
What are features of the edge of the city?
- late twentieth century –>
- shopping centres
- business and office parks
- detached housing
- green space
- beside main roads
- car parking
- 1-2 storey buildings
What are features of the suburbs?
- twentieth century
- semi/detached houses
- low/high rise flats
- large gardens
- garages
- 1-2 storey housing
- low density of buildings
- parks, golf courses
What are the problems with transport in the CBD?
- many vehicles pasing through centre
- traffic lights needed at junctions
- holds up traffic
exhaust fumes cause air pollution
What are the solutions for transport in the CBD?
- motorways build close to CBD
- introduce train networks
- pedestrianised streets
- bus lanes
- one-way streets
What are the problems with shopping in the CBS?
- popular, high street shops under 1 roof
- over crowding of shops
What are the solutions to shopping in the CBD?
- more shopping malls
- easy to access from transport stations
- more attractions
- more shops under one roof, weather proof
What were the old docks like?
- unattractive
- waste land
- closed shipyards
- closed docks
- closed warehouses
- disused railway lines
- old, overcrowded tenements
- high unemployment
What is the new ‘old docks’ like now?
- hotels
- expensive waterfront flats
- transport museums
- high-tech industries
- BBC head office
- leisure and tourist facilities
- entertainment complex
- new offices
- motorways
What are the changes in the suburbs?
- Places to live
- business and shops
- health centres
- schools
What is the general effect of building in the suburbs?
- more road raffic
- more noise pollution
- less farmland
- less food produced
- loss of trees, plant life and wildlife
- one development often leads to others
What are the effects of more housing in the suburbs?
- fewer people in inner city and centre
- more commuters
- more vehicles travelling to centre
- people need more health centres and schools
What are the effects of more industry in the suburbs?
- provides more jobs for local people
- less air and noise pollution s work closer to home
- shopping centres selling comparison goods reduces customers
