Categories of land use

• Land use 


  Refers to the function of the land, what it is used for
• Categories of land use:

  1. The CBD
  2. Inner city
  3. Residential
  4. Industry
  5. Green space
  6. Out of town retail devleopments
  7. Business and science parks
  8. Informal settlements
  9. Transport infrastructure
• The CBD (Central Business District)

  Major shops, offices and entertainment facilities
• The inner city:

  Old terraced housing and light manufacturing industry, dating back to industrial revolution, regenerated in recent decades (Urban policy)
• Residential:


  Housing from a range of time periods which usually increases in value and size with distance FROM the CBD

  Regeneration and gentrification now somewhat skewed this
• Industry 


  Larger areas now associated with the edge of urban areas for space and cheaper land

  Many inner city industrial sites have suffered from de-industrialisation & converted to other land uses but keeping features of industrial heritage
• Green space 


  Parks are common but green space varies in size from playgrounds and allotments to sports fields and botanical garden
• Out of town retail developments:

  Origninally developed by supermarkets and expanded into other retail and entertainment

  Had negative impact on town centres

  Gov discourages them
• Business and science parks

  Found on periphery of urban areas with access to major transport routes

  Often associated with unis
• Informal settlements:


  A features of LICs (slums, shanty towns) found along transport routes or undesirable land that's not been devleoped or on outskirts of city where more space
• Transport infrastructure:


  Associated with inner city and CBD radiating outwards towards suburbs and rural-urban fringe