Urban Forms

Question 1

Urban forms of cities change over time these changes are influenced by human and physical factors :

Answer 1

Human:
Planning
Infrastructure
Land value

Physical factors:
Topography, physical features
Water
Land type

Question 2

Houses generally increase in value with distance away from the centre:

Answer 2

Inner city : high land value, relative poverty and ethnic minorities tend to be high.

Land value is lower in rural areas. Houses are larger. Low proportion off ethnic minorities

Question 3

Urban forms: modern areas have a range of recent features:

Answer 3

Fortress developments
Town center mixed developments
Edge cities
Gentrified areas
Cultural and heritage quarters w

Question 4

What are town centre mixed developments:

Answer 4

Areas where the land use is mixed: residential, commercial and leisure uses are combined

Developments are planned by local councils often with private investment.

Aim to attract people back to city centres

Question 5

What are Fortress developments:

Answer 5

• Developments with lots of security, often in surburban areas

Question 6

What are edge cities ?

Answer 6

New areas of shops, offices and leisure facilities which are developed near major transport links.

• due to cheaper land

Question 7

What are Cultural and heritage quarters ?

Answer 7

Focus on the history or character of a city.

Often done by councils for a kind of regeneration scheme

Question 8

What are Gentrified areas ?

Answer 8

• When wealthy people move into rundown inner city areas and regenerate them by improving housing.

Often means poorer residents are forced out, leads to social and ethnic segregation

Question 9

What are Post modern cities ?

Answer 9

• Planning on the aesthetics of the city
• Focus on quarternary and tertiary sectors e.g IT rather than secondary
• Multiple centres with different purposes rather than one single centre