Some richer countries (UK) have housing shortages in urban areas because the urban population has grown quickly
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Way of tackling shortages: New towns -brand new towns have been built to house the overspill population from existing towns and cities where there was a shortage of hosuing. Milton Keynes is a well known example of a new town.
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Way of tackling shortages: Relocation incentives -these are used to encourage people living in large concil houses (dont need a big house) to move out of urban areas. this frees up houses in urban areas for other people (working families).
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The CBDs in some cities are run down. 1 reason for this is competition from out of town shopping centres and business parks,which have cheaper rent (so lure shops to move there) and are easier to drive to. but steps are being taken to revitalise some
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Improving access with better public transport link and better car parking.
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Improving public areas,e.g. parks and sqaures,to make them more attractive
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Predestrainising areas (stopping car access) to make them safer and nicer for shoppers
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Inital goverment investment encourages business to returnattracting more customers,which attarcts more businesses and so on. the london docklands development is a good example of this
