A-Level Geography - Human - Urban Forms
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- Created on: 11-02-22 10:22
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- Urban Forms
- Land Use Patterns
- HICs
- Housing is high density in the Inner City, and along with high land value many residents here live in relative poverty
- Land value is lower in suburban areas, so housing is less dense and more open space, so residents here are wealthy
- The proportion of people from ethnic minorities tends to decrease with distance from the CBD due to living costs
- Tertiary/Quaternary services, like shopping centres, may be built in the suburbia due to land cost
- LICs
- Land value is highest around the city, so high-cost housing is built there, where residents are wealthy immigrants
- Surrounding high-cost housing is medium-cost housing, which may have started as an informal settlement but improved over time
- The outskirts of cities have marginal land, so squatter settlements are built which contain poor immigrants
- Industrial areas are located along transport links like major roads and rail lines
- The Burgess Model (Chicago)
- Central Business District
- Historical part of the city, High-Rise, High Land Value
- Outer Suburbs
- Built after the 1960s, Detached houses, UK Cities have a 'green belt' beyond this
- Inner City
- Built during the Industrial Revolution, Terraced housing, Started Rural -> Urban Migration
- Inner Suburbs
- Build during the Interwar period (1920s/30s), Semi-detached housing, Started Suburbanisation
- Central Business District
- HICs
- Case Study - Glasgow
- Housing
- Tenements with mixed housing with community facilities recreated after Comprehensive Redevelopment
- The Gorbals features 4 storey tenements that feature a modern design
- Mixture of people, income, jobs and tenure rather than segregation between Inner City/Suburbs
- Tenements with mixed housing with community facilities recreated after Comprehensive Redevelopment
- Industry
- Like most HIC cities, transitioned from secondary to tertiary/quaternary industry
- 52 hectares of old harbour was transformed by £1.2 billion project into 4000 riverside apartments + 50,000 sqr feet of retail + 20,000 sqr feet of leisure
- Has a huge tourism industry due to attractions, starting 60,000 new jobs since 1998
- Central Business District
- Burrell Gallery, Modern Art Gallery and Kelvingrove Museum act as Cultural & Heritage Quarters
- In 2006, Kelvingrove brought 3m visitors, biggest attraction in Scotland
- Buchanan Street is one of the UK's largest shopping areas
- Fought of out of town shopping centres present in other HIC cities
- Burrell Gallery, Modern Art Gallery and Kelvingrove Museum act as Cultural & Heritage Quarters
- Housing
- Changes in HICs
- Gentrification
- Wealthier people move into rundown inner city areas and regenerate them
- Areas have a large range of services, however poorer residents may move due to costs increasing
- Fortress Developments
- Developments that have lots of security, like CCTV, guards and high walls
- Designed to give a safe environment for families, and only wealthy people can afford to live in
- Popular in NEEs like South Africa
- Edge Cities
- New areas of offices, shows and facilities that develop close to major transport links
- Majority of edge cities have been developed in the 1950s/60s due to car ownership
- Warner Centre Woodland Hills is an edge city of Los Angelis, 50km from the CBD
- Cheaper land and businesses moving has reduced social costs
- Post-Modern Western Cities
- Focusing on tertiary and quaternary industries, instead of the secondary industry
- Less uniform architecture
- Higher social and economic inequality present in the city
- Gentrification
- Land Use Patterns
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