Function of townscities

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Function of towns/cities

• Add this in after models
• Main function tourist/industry etc. Note to copy
  about figuring these out.

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Street Patterns
18th/19th Century good quality housing
Crescent
Planned structure
Circle
Wide access streets
Parks
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19th Century mixed housing and industry
Long rows of tenements
Grid iron pattern
Large blocks old industry
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Exercise 4

• a) describe the urban landscape of area A.
• b) contrast the residential environments of Areas
  B and C on the map.
• One person describe A, the other describe B and
  then share your answers.

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OS Mapping Practise assessment

• Work through Qs 2,3,4 and 5 on pg 22.
• This should be done on lined paper
• This should be completed for homework if
  unfinished.

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CBD Characteristics

• Land-uses
• Rates
• Building height
• Population densities
• Pedestrian and traffic flows
• CHANGES..

Why might people move out of the city? What
about shops relocating elsewhere?
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Braehead Shopping Centre
8km to the west of Glasgow city centre, 7km from
Glasgow Airport, with 180 shops and impressive
leisure facilities, all built on the south bank
of the Clyde at a cost of 250m. 3 multi-storey
car parks.
Out of town shopping centres
The Forge
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Close to market
Flat and cheap land
Large floor space
Space for parking
Main road near motorway (M8) intersection
little or no congestion
Easy access for customers and delivery of goods
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Developments in Glasgow
An increasing number of pedestrian precincts and
shopping centres to make the area more attractive
to customers
The Italian Centre includes cafes, restaurants
and specialist shops
Sauchiehall Street
Buchanan Street
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• Tourist attractions e.g
• GOMA
• Science Centre
• Sport and leisure e.g
• Kelvin Hall International Arena
• Health and fitness clubs
• Entertainment e.g
• SECC
• Royal Concert Hall
• Carling Academy

St Enochs Centre
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Further changes in the CBD

• Growth of transport network to improve
  accessibility
• - M8 to improve through flow
• - Clydeside expressway, creation of ring roads.
• - improved car parking
• - improved and integrated public transport
  facilities
• - traffic management schemes
• Indoor / specialised shopping (St Enochs/ Italian
  centre
• Improved entertainment facilities e.g. Cineworld
• Art galleries
• Concert/conference facilities (SECC)
• Conversion of old warehouses
• Attracting young professionals into city centre
  e.g. Merchant City

Ex 5, pg 29
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Traffic in the CBD
Read through factzone 12 on page 30
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GMT- Traffic

• Ex 6 page 33
• 1. Greatest movement along Jackson Road,
  especially to the north, traffic flow to the east
  on Bury Lane next, most of this turns onto
  Jackson Road. Traffic flows consist mostly of
  cars and lorries etc.
• 2, Inward peak at 8am as people are travelling
  to work, small peak after noon during lunch time,
  secondary peak around 5pm with people travelling
  home moving through centre, minor peak at 9pm
  people going out to cinema etc
• Outward some people travelling outwards
  during day but mostly low levels, peak at around
  4/5om, secondary peak at 10pm people leaving for
  home.
• 3. highest on market day (Wed) lowest on Sunday
  non-work day) also low on half shopping day
  (Thurs), other days generally the same.

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Inner-city Change

• What were the problems in the inner-city?
• What were CDAs?
• What were the 4 housing solutions?
• Give advantages and disadvantages of each.
• More recent changes to the CBD

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Pacific QuayGlasgow Science Centre and Glasgow
TowerPacific Quay business parkBBC Scotland
headquarters
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Glasgow Harbour Project

• Glasgow Harbour is an integrated mix of
  high-quality commercial, residential, retail,
  leisure and public space.
• Now, the regeneration of the waterfront will
  bring people back to the River Clyde
• Prestigious location, high quality environment.
• Easy access and good transport links.
• regenerating formerly redundant land, attracting
  investment and creating employment.
• The overall project will take about 10 years to
  complete.

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Developments so far
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Sphere of influence

• The sphere of influence of a service is how far
  people will travel to make use of that service. A
  primary school, which is a low order service,
  will have a smaller sphere of influence than a
  secondary school which is a middle order service.
  People are willing to travel a long distance to
  get to a high order service (e.g. Harrods shop in
  London) and it therefore has a very large sphere
  of influence.Settlements as a whole can also be
  said to have a sphere of influence. People will
  usually only travel a short distance to a hamlet
  (e.g. Levenwick in Shetland) but will travel
  further to a town (Lerwick in Shetland).
• How would you gather information to find out a
  sphere of influence?

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End of part 2