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

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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.

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