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