Urban Functions Birmingham Case Study
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- Created on: 24-04-17 19:59
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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
- Recreational
- Hoyt Model
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