Urban

Question 1

Describe what happens as you move out of the city

Answer 1

It gets newer and cheaper and competition decreases

Question 2

Characteristics of the CBD

Answer 2

•Oldest part of the City
•Highest land value
•Highest amount of competition for land
•Most accessible and popular area
•Most densely built

Question 3

The inner city has 2 main functions

Answer 3

•Residential e.g low cost,working class housing
•19th century heavy industry e.g ship building

Question 4

What is the street pattern in the Inner city

Answer 4

Grid iron street pattern

Question 5

What are some types of housing in the inner city

Answer 5

•Terraced housing
•Tenement flats

Question 6

Typical housing in the inner suburbs

Answer 6

•Semi detached
•Front and back gardens
•Bay windows
•Tree lined streets

Question 7

Whats the street pattern in the suburbs

Answer 7

Curvilinear and Cul de sac

Question 8

Typical housing in the outer suburbs

Answer 8

Type 1-detached,green space, garages, off street housing
Type 2-Cramped high rise flags, on street parking, low quality, not much green space

Question 9

What is the greenbelt

Answer 9

An area with strict planning regulations to reduce urban sprawl to protect the countryside

Question 10

Things in the rural urban fringe

Answer 10

•shopping centres (Glasgow fort)
•Business and Office park (Glasgow airport)
•Farmland
•Transport links

Question 11

Benefits of the rural urban fringe

Answer 11

•Cheap land
•Room for expansion
•Good accessibility

Question 12

CBD problems

Answer 12

•Pedestrian and traffic congestion
•Lack of space for car parks
•Noise and air pollution
•Many properties in need of modernisation and improvement
•Expensive land
•competition with out of town shopping centres

Question 13

CBD solutions

Answer 13

•Pedestrian zones
•Traffic management (one way streets)
•Bus, taxi and cycle lanes
•New shopping malls e.g buchanan galleries
•Bypass routes or ring roads
•Renovated tourist facilities
•multi storey carparks adjacent to shopping centres
•High order shopping (e.g Hamleys)

Question 14

Inner city problems

Answer 14

High rise development-Lack of community feel, poorly ventilated, expensive to heat, poorly designed open space-led to criminal activity,many demolished
Edge of city housing-Isolated from city centre and friends and family, needing to travel to find jobs leading to unemployment

Question 15

Solutions inner city

Answer 15

•Existing tenements have been renovated instead of demolished. They are modernised with new windows, central heating, bathrooms etc
•High rise flats have been demolished and redevelopment has taken place on land e.g student accommodation
•Areas have been redeveloped (e.g sighthill) with new flats houses restaurants,offices and open green space

Question 16

Whats YUPPIFICATION

Answer 16

Yuppi-young and up coming professional. This is when higher income people move into new nice flats or modernised tenement flats in in a city areas because of ease of access to CBD and access to transport. This increases property prices out pricing many residents.

Question 17

Problems in the rural urban fringe

Answer 17

•Urban sprawl leading to loss of farmland
•Loss of wildlife habitats
•Conflict between different land users wanting to locate here because of its advantageous locational factors

Question 18

Solutions to rural urban fringe

Answer 18

•greenbelt area thats protected
•only allow important developments
•Encourage developments in the inner city
•Encourage those who want to commute to jump the greenbelt area and develop areas further out