Urban Functions Birmingham Case Study

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  • Urban functions Birmingham
    • Hoyt Model
      • industrial areas built up along transport routes e.g canals and roads. Income groups are separated by location of housing
    • Layout
      • Residential areas focused mainly on the outskirts of the CBD and in the suburbs e.g Yardley and Edgbaston
      • Ring road around the CDB resulted in growth
      • Entertainment, Commercial land use dominate the CBD
    • Suburbanisation
      • Occured in the 20th century. Middle class housing began to move out of inner city areas to suburbs e.g Harborne and Yardley
      • Inner city areas declined due to deindustrialisation and industry closing down
      • Post- war suburbanisation escalted as 60,000 new homes and 60,000 council houses were built on the suburbs
    • Funtions
      • Recreational
        • Bullring opened with shops and restaurants. It cost around £600m
        • Eastside  City Park
        • Brindley Place opened in 1994
      • Commercial
        • Grand Central opened on the 24th September 2015 with around 52 shops
        • The bullring has over 160 retailers and shops
      • Industary
        • There has been a decline in manufacturing over the years and most of the industry has moved outside of the CBD for example the Bournville chocolate factory

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