Urban

• Recent developments in shanty towns


  -in Mumbai, India local authorities have improved sanitation by providing more toilets;

  -improving water supply by installing more pipes and providing cleaner water.

  -The quality of houses have been improved through self-help schemes;

  -so people improve the quality of their homes by making their walls stronger and installing legal electricity
• Recent developments in CBD


  -Many old buildings like Candleriggs fruit market are no longer needed or suited to their original purpose so are converted into houses, hotels etc.

  -to make use of the valuble space.

  -These converted buildings also afford the opportunity for new land users to move in

  -Many areas like Buchanan street have become pedestrianised to make it safer for shoppers;

  -and reduce the number of veichles in the centre as well as reducing pollution

  -Many small shops have gone out of buisness and have been replaced with larger chain stores
• Recent developments in the Inner City


  -some of the poorer housing/ tower blocks were pulled down;

  -and replaced by new housing to improve living conditions in regenerated areas like Glasgow Harbour

  -Old grid iron streets plus increased car ownership caused congestion problems so new transport links like the Patrick Interchange was built

  -Small industrial units replaced by the old heavy industries improving employment in the area

  -Tourism has been encouraged with many new hotels appearing in the gap sites left by the demolished factories
• More recent developments in the inner city


  -improvements made to the environment by landscaping and improving docklands
• Advantages of living in a rural-urban fringe


  -land is cheaper so houses can have garages and gardens

  -easy access to main roads so encourages work in city

  -rates and rents lower so shops can be bigger

  -enviroment attractive with little pollution

  -out of town shopping centres and retail parks are attracted by the large available space which can be used for expansion if
• Solutions to city centre traffic congestion


  -Park and ride schemes eg. Kinning Park to stop people bringing their cars into the city centre

  -involves parking outside CBD and completing journey by bus, train or subway

  -this reduces the number of cars coming into the CBD

  -therefore reducing population in the city centre
• Difference in areas


  -closer to CBD = more expensive

  -places further from CBD are cheaper so you can have greenery and bigger houses

  -places closer to the CBD are more congested

  -places closer to CBD are more polluted
• things about building _ in suburbs

  -the flat land is easier to build on

  -roads and motorways near allow the delivery of goods

  -land is cheaper on outskirts

  -area could suffer from air and noise pollution

  -roads limit the space in the area for buildings