Urban and rural areas Flashcards
1
Q
What is the CBD?
A
Central business district
- oldest part of town
- mainly shops, offices, entertainments
2
Q
What is the inner city?
A
- built in nineteenth century
- old factories
- stone tenement houses
- brick terraced houses
3
Q
What is the suburbs?
A
- built in the twentieth and twenty-first century
- mainly detached and semi-detached houses
- many parks
4
Q
What is an industrial centre?
A
Where there are many jobs in factories and offices
5
Q
What is a market centre?
A
Where farmers buy and sell their produce
6
Q
What is a service centre?
A
Where there are many jobs in shops, entertainment
7
Q
What is a tourist resort?
A
Where people go on holiday
8
Q
What is a retirement centre?
A
Where many senior citizens choose to live
9
Q
What is a port?
A
Where ships load and unload goods
10
Q
What are the features of a CBD?
A
- 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
11
Q
What are the features of a inner city?
A
- 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
12
Q
What are features of the edge of the city?
A
- late twentieth century –>
- shopping centres
- business and office parks
- detached housing
- green space
- beside main roads
- car parking
- 1-2 storey buildings
13
Q
What are features of the suburbs?
A
- twentieth century
- semi/detached houses
- low/high rise flats
- large gardens
- garages
- 1-2 storey housing
- low density of buildings
- parks, golf courses
14
Q
What are the problems with transport in the CBD?
A
- many vehicles pasing through centre
- traffic lights needed at junctions
- holds up traffic
exhaust fumes cause air pollution
15
Q
What are the solutions for transport in the CBD?
A
- motorways build close to CBD
- introduce train networks
- pedestrianised streets
- bus lanes
- one-way streets
