Urban issues 1- Richer world

Birmingham

Attractions:

• The Balti Triangle (curry houses)
• Brindley place (hotels and restaurants)
• Broad Street (Night clubs)
• The Bullring (shopping centre)
• The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
  
• St Paul's square (live popular music)

Issues facing this city:

• Not enough good-quality affordable housing.
• Too much traffic and pollution
• a CBD with rundown or unused buildings
• high unemployment in certain areas.
• a mixed culture with ethnic segregation.

Help for inner cities: New Deals for communties (NDC)-

• Launched by labour goverment in 1999
• …