Changes in a CBD
Changes in old inner city areas
Changes at the Rural Urban Fringe?
Suburbanised zones
Transport in urban areas
100
Central Business District
What is a CBD?
100
Large areas were bulldozed and rebuilt
What is Urban redevelopment?
100
To control urban growth
Why were green belts created?
100
People that move out of the city and into surrounding villages
What is counter-urbanisation?
100
Offers individual families greater mobility and allows them to travel door to door
What does a car do?
200
because it is the most easily accessible
Why do CBD's often contain places such as cinema's, museums and town halls?
200
Set up to try to improve the economic, social and environmental conditions of an area
Why was the LDDC set up?
200
Because there was cheaper land,less traffic congestion, a pleasanter environment with more open space
Why was there increasing competition for rural-urban fringes?
200
Because the characteristics of these settlements have changed?
What has led to villages now being called suburbanised?
200
A person that lives outside of the city but works in the city
What is a commuter?
300
Roads are often congested and lots of buildings were in need of refurbishment
What are some consequences for the CBD the most busy place?
300
It was responsible for planning and regeneration of the London Docklands
What was the LDDC responsible for during the regeneration of the London Docks?
300
Places that have not yet been built upon in a rural-urban fringe
What are greenfield sites?
300
They are also called this because many of their residents have to travel to nearby towns and cities for work
Why are they also called commuter or dormitory settlements?
300
It means that commuters can live further from their place of work if they want to
What does increased car ownership and improvement in roads mean?
400
The creation of pedestrianised zones
What was the first major change made in city centres?
400
During the 19th century and up to the early 1950's
When was London the busiest port in the world?
400
From a corner shop, to a supermarket, to a hypermarket, to an out of town shopping centre
How has family shopping evolved?
400
Derelict and unused land in urbanised areas
What is a brownfield site?
400
Department of the Environment
What is the DoE?
500
Allows shoppers to stay dry, warm and compare styles
What does a mall do?
500
Attempts to regenerate derelict and unused land and buildings in urban places
What does the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) do?
500
Gateshead is an enterprise zone, the area was previously marshland and so was cheap to buy and it's adjacent to the Western by-pass
What are the advantages of the site?
500
The government assume that 80% of the new houses needed will come from single-parent families
Who do the government assume will want/need the new houses?
500
People are concerned about the effect it has on human health, the environment, global warming and gridlock
What are the effects of traffic congestion?
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