changing city environments..

• ENQUIRY QUESTION

  how the CBD & inner city are different & how they've changed over time
• soundscape

  noise levels in CBD & in riverside are surprisingly quite similar; inner city was slightly more louder in decibels
• EQA

  environment quality in riverside is better than the millenial plain
• land use

  CBD has more government & commercial uses whilst riverside has more residential & a few commercial (like entertainment)- norwich follows the burgess model quite well, showing it's accurate in terms of trends in a developed city
• • radar graphs are used for EQA
• | other primary sources

  • perception surveys
  • labelled photographs: up to date!
• | secondary data

  • old photographs
  • old maps
• • both have good environmental qualities but riverside scored highest in the survey
  • little traffic in both areas due to being pedestrianised but riverside has less people
  • CBD was louder
• • main differences are due to land value
  • CBD has large chain stores that can afford higher rents
  • lower rents in inner city means more room for residential & retail parks
• • historical factors influence the nature too
  • CBD always been commercial & civic centred; route centre for trade
  • riverside used to be an industrial area; since deindustrialisation, it's been developed for residential & retail places
• | evaluation of accuracy & reliability

  • PROS
  • able to visit area & collect primary data
  • collected a range of data
  • CONS
  • equipment was new so human error is possible BUT to overcome this, we took several readings to work out an average
  • sound recordings could have been influenced by us talking
  • land use can't always easily be identified just by the looks
  • only visited once
  • key needs to be changed to include religious buildings