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1
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What is the CBD?

A

Central business district

  • oldest part of town
  • mainly shops, offices, entertainments
2
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What is the inner city?

A
  • built in nineteenth century
  • old factories
  • stone tenement houses
  • brick terraced houses
3
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What is the suburbs?

A
  • built in the twentieth and twenty-first century
  • mainly detached and semi-detached houses
  • many parks
4
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What is an industrial centre?

A

Where there are many jobs in factories and offices

5
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What is a market centre?

A

Where farmers buy and sell their produce

6
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What is a service centre?

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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?

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Where many senior citizens choose to live

9
Q

What is a port?

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Where ships load and unload goods

10
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What are the features of a CBD?

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  • 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
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What are the features of a inner city?

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  • 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
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What are features of the edge of the city?

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  • late twentieth century –>
  • shopping centres
  • business and office parks
  • detached housing
  • green space
  • beside main roads
  • car parking
  • 1-2 storey buildings
13
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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
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What are the problems with transport in the CBD?

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  • many vehicles pasing through centre
  • traffic lights needed at junctions
  • holds up traffic
    exhaust fumes cause air pollution
15
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What are the solutions for transport in the CBD?

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  • motorways build close to CBD
  • introduce train networks
  • pedestrianised streets
  • bus lanes
  • one-way streets
16
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What are the problems with shopping in the CBS?

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  • popular, high street shops under 1 roof

- over crowding of shops

17
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What are the solutions to shopping in the CBD?

A
  • more shopping malls
  • easy to access from transport stations
  • more attractions
  • more shops under one roof, weather proof
18
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What were the old docks like?

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  • unattractive
  • waste land
  • closed shipyards
  • closed docks
  • closed warehouses
  • disused railway lines
  • old, overcrowded tenements
  • high unemployment
19
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What is the new ‘old docks’ like now?

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  • hotels
  • expensive waterfront flats
  • transport museums
  • high-tech industries
  • BBC head office
  • leisure and tourist facilities
  • entertainment complex
  • new offices
  • motorways
20
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What are the changes in the suburbs?

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  • Places to live
  • business and shops
  • health centres
  • schools
21
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What is the general effect of building in the suburbs?

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  • more road raffic
  • more noise pollution
  • less farmland
  • less food produced
  • loss of trees, plant life and wildlife
  • one development often leads to others
22
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What are the effects of more housing in the suburbs?

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  • fewer people in inner city and centre
  • more commuters
  • more vehicles travelling to centre
  • people need more health centres and schools
23
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What are the effects of more industry in the suburbs?

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  • provides more jobs for local people
  • less air and noise pollution s work closer to home
  • shopping centres selling comparison goods reduces customers