Urban Revision

National 4/5: Human Environments

Housing Transport

Retail Regeneration“Describe the changes that have taken place in the Glasgow Harbour regeneration project”Out of Town CBD

Urban Revision

OS Maps - Glasgow CBD and Suburbs

Pick out features characteristic to the CBD and Suburbs

Culs-de-sac street pattern, Schools, Parks, Open Space, Outdoor Activities, Minor Roads

Pages 10-11

Annotate the pictures to describe the problems associated with each type of housing.

Rats, Poor Sewage, Overcrowded, Lack of running water, no electricity, close to factories, pollution, cramped, no open spaces.

Poor construction, damp, lack of amenities, isolation, families separated, poor transport, crime

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Discuss Glasgow's transport problems and their solutions.

Problems• Increasing Car Numbers• Commuters travelling to the

CBD for work.• Few bridging points across

the River Clyde leading to bottlenecks.

• Not enough parking spaces.• Parking on narrow streets

obstructing traffic flow.

Solutions• Construction of New Roads

• M74 Extension• Kingston Bridge• Erskine Bridge

• Improvements to Public Transport• More Railway Lines & Stations• New link to Glasgow Airport• New lines added to Glasgow’s

Subway• Bus Lanes

• Improving Traffic Flow in the CBD• One way system• Traffic Wardens• Multi-storey car parks• Pedestrianisation of shopping streets

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Describe the characteristics of shopping in the CBD and in out of town retail parks.

Out of town shopping centre e.g. Braehead

• Located near motorways and main roads.

• Plenty of free car parking spaces.

• Open late in the evenings.• Large stores due to cheap

land prices.• Other leisure activities

available e.g. hotels, ten-pin bowling, restaurants.

CBD Shopping e.g. Buchanan Street

• Development of high order e.g. Merchant City

• Buchanan Street, Argyle Street and Suachiehall Street have become pedestrian precincts.

• Large shopping centres built in the city centre e.g. St Enoch Centre & Buchanan Galleries.

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Describe the change that have taken place in the Glasgow Harbour regeneration project

Use pages from your Urban Booklet and write down key facts and examples of Glasgow’s regeneration project.

– A 3km stretch of quayside in Yorkhill and Partick.

– Site includes the former Meadowside Granary, redundant shipyards, docklands, warehouses & disused railway.

– 120 acres of land will be redeveloped.

– £1.2 billion– 2,500 flats, 200,000m2 of office

space.– 50,000m2 of retail and leisure

developments.– New Transport Museum– 40% will be public space

(walkways & cycle paths)

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