BURGESS MODEL: LONDON
1. Central Business District- The commercial and business centre of a town or city where land values are at the highest
5. Commuter Zone
2. Factories and Industry - The part of the urban area surrounding the CBD; it often contains older housing and industry, in a state of poor repair and dereliction
Government
House of Parliament
Tourism- Landmarks
London Eye and Big Ben
Professional Offices
Bridges
Tower Bridge
4. Middle Class Housing (Outer suburb)
Upper Middle Class Neighbourhood
Many Transport Links
Underground
Huge Transport Hubs
Underground
Tourist Attractions
Retail
Businesses
Oxford Street
Soho
Transport
Bond Street
No factories seen anymore
3. Working Class Housing (Inner suburb)
Apartments
Penthouses/ Luxury Houses
Brownfield land- places where derelict buildings and factories are found. (Land that has been previously been developed but is now available for redevelopment
Unemployment- low socio economic grouping
High crime rates
Cycle of deprivation- A sequence of events experienced by disadvantaged people in which one problem leads to other problems
Urban regeneration (planned growth)
Luxury flats
Chain stores
Open spaces
Attracts professionals, not families
Corner shops
Terraced hosuing
Suburbanisation
Urban Sprawl
Suburbanisation
Urban Sprawl
Conurbation: when cities continue on growing and join with other cities
Governments plan new housing areas and employment for people who lived there before - NEW TOWN
Retail Park for skilled workers
Retail parks for skilled labourers form 2.
Home of young, single/couple professionals
Mediocre sized housing
Penthouses
Bigger sized housing
Attracts families due to space and tranquility
Services for people who live in CBD and in the area
Schools
Shopping malls
Security
Hospitals
Supermarkets
Factories might be moved out further into the outskirts- cheaper and more space
Previously, low income citizens lived here but after regeneration, rich people do
Near to facilities
Exciting, fast paced daily routines
Dedicated to work
Might be home of workers who have families and therefore prefer a quieter, bigger house to live in, but at the same time can get to centre fast
Home of families and middle aged citizens
Ethnicities: the CBD of the UK is very diverse
This zone is known as the transition zone
Open land is found here
Open land found here
Inner city- Twilight zone
Has Greenfield Sites- areas that have never been built on
Often protected by law
If it isn't protected, than urban sprawl will happen
Conurbation (the merging of towns and cites together) will occur
Toon many people living in joined cities- Millionaire City