Shopping - small shops are being replaced by larger chains, old buildings no longer needed are converted into shops, indoor shopping malls.
Traffic - slow journees mean more pollution, so more pedestrianised streets and one way system to keep shoppers healthy.
Transport - M8 & M74 pass very close to city centre and take 'through traffic' away from the centre. Improved train system, bus lanes make busses faster.
Housing - Old buildings are being converted into modern flats, regeneration of older housing areas have been used to improve the inner city areas and make them more attractive.
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Changes in Inner City
Housing - Expensive waterfront flats, new houses for sale not just rent, new 2-storey brick tenemants built. Inner city renewal - demolishing old houses to new council house schemes.
Employment - New industrial estate set up on site of old steelworks, new high-tech industries e.g. Film City, new offices creating more jobs.
Tourist attractions - major concert venue, transport museum, more facilities e.g. Science Centre.
Environment - more green space and private gardens, reduced heavy industry.
Services - New library, health centre, leisure centre and busy train lines.
Retail services - Variety of hotels and makes Glasgow a business location.
Gentrification - Run down areas restroed and rennovated by wealthy groups moving back into the areas to live.
Brownfield site developments - derelict site which can be built on e.g. Old Docks.
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Changes in City Edge
Greenbelt - zone around city where no development can take place
Out of town shoppping centres - near motorways, open late, free parking
Urban Sprawl - fewer people in inner city, creates jobs; more pollution in countryside, less farmland.
Smaller towns used for growth to limit further development in rural/urban fringe.
Small private housing estates used as commuter villages.
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