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Land Use Zones
Land Use Zones
Case Study Glasgow.
Higher Geography
Learning Objectives
• Identify different land use zones from the CBD to the suburbs using map evidence to justify your answers.
• Describe the land use associated with each functional zone.
What are the different land uses in a city?
• Similar land use zones are called FUNCTIONAL ZONES!• Residential• Industrial• Service – Retail• Administrative• Educational• Transport• Medical• Financial• Entertainment• Religious
City Land Use & Maps
We will look at the following key parts or “Zones”, of the city using O.S. Maps.
1) CBD
2) Transition zone / inner city.
INCLUDES - Low Cost Housing/Industry
1) Medium Cost Housing
2) High Cost Housing
3) Rural Urban Fringe
CBDInner City
Medium Cost Housing
High Cost Housing Suburbs
CBD
2
Characteristics of the CBD
• The center of the settlement.• Most accessible part of the city > Most expensive part
of the city – HIGH BID RENT PRICE. • High Rise Buildings, MAKING MOST OF THE SPACE.• High Order Shops, Offices, Financial Institutions,
Universities, Entertainment, Public Admin, Art and cultural centers, Hotels.
• Focus of transport routes. rail, road and boat. Pedestrianized Streets
• Grid Iron Street Patterns, Old and new building combined.
• Named examples, Buchanan Street, Buchanan Galleries, Hilton Hotel, UGC Cinema, Glasgow City Chambers, Central Station, M8, Buchanan Bus Station….
Inner City
Tenement Housing
Tenements
Characteristics of the Inner City
• Normally located next to the CBD.• Industrial Features such as flat land, accessibility –
roads, rail, canals, motorways.• Large buildings, warehouses, usually with wks, beside it.• Old housing – TENEMENTS – used to house the workers
in the past > low car ownership had to walk to work.• Densely populated, no open space, congested, polluted.• Named examples, Govan, Partick, Yoker, Whitinch. • In Glasgow this zone stretches linear along the Clyde.
Not the same in all cities.• Could mention Clydebank.
Medium Cost Housing
• Moving away from the CBD.• Better quality housing.• Less densely populated.• Better layout of street pattern. Crescents and
Cul-de-Sacs.• More open space and gardens.• Less traffic, less pollution.• Named examples Kelvinside, Kelvindale,
Anniesland, Knightswood.
Modern Housing
High Cost Housing SUBURBS
• Cost of travel in reduced and car ownership increases > people move further away from city center.
• Low density, High cost housing.• Bungalows and detached housing.• Large gardens, schools, open space, modern street
patterns, small shopping centers.• Named examples Bearsden, Milngavie,
Bishopbriggs, Kirkintilloch.
Rural Urban Fringe
• New Housing and new Industry.
• Out of town shopping centres
• Expanding suburbs.
• Protected by the green belt.
New Development - Braehead
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