New urban landscapes

• Mixed-use development blends, residential, commercial, cultural, institutional and industrial uses, which are interconnected physically and also functionally.
• Many cities across the UK have developed a cultural quarter in order to encourage growth and revitalise the local economy in the arts and creative industry.
• Fortress developments, such as gated communities, are where areas are secured off from public access, and only certain people with permission are allowed to enter.
• Edge cities are an area of business, shops and entertainment services on the outskirts of a city usually by major transport links
• Edge cities developed due to cheaper land being available outside of the physical Central business district.
• Gentrification is the prices of housing improvement on a piecemeal basis associated with low-income groups being displaced and more affluent people moving in.
• Reasons for gentrification:

  • The rent gap
  • A changing household composition and demographic.
  • Desirability to live in the inner city.
  • Reputation of the inner city
• The process of gentrification:

  1. Lower middle class incomes, including a creative class, migrate into cheaper outdated, rundown inner city places.
  2. The pioneers renovate their homes improving the environment
  3. The place gains a fashionable status, attracting more young professionals.
  4. Private sector investors buy and renovate more of the housing
  5. Local government invests in the place as a "growth poll"
  6. Wealthy migrants and foreign investors move in
  7. House prices increase.