The changing urban environment

The changing urban environment

1. urbanisation

   • definition
   • causes
   • difference in growth medc / ledc
   • Traffic
     • problems of traffic
     • world solutions to traffic
       • ring roads
       • congestion charge
       • car tagging
       • public transport

2. functional parts of a settlement

   • cbd
     • revitalising the cbd
       • problems for the cbd of manchester
       • regneration of Manchester cbd
         • Arndale
         • metro link
         • Spinningfield
         • markets
     • core and frame
   • innercity Salford Manchester
     • decline of industry
     • effects of lost industry
     • 1960 tower block
     • 1990 Gov -Urban development Corporations
       • Urban Renewal
         • Gentrification
       • City Challenge Partnerships
     • Cultural issues
       • causes of ethnic segregation
       • strategies to support multicultural areas
       • Burnley 2001
   • suburbs
   • landuse models
     • medc Burgess CONCENTRIC RING
     • ledc Hoyt SECTOR
     • similarites
     • differences
   • issues in urban area
     • housing
       • brownfield
       • greenfield

3. Rural to urban migration

   • push
   • pull
   • squatter settlements
     • Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya facts
     • characteristics of quality of life
     • solutions
       • assisted self help ASH
       • site and service
       • local authority schemes
       • Charities

4. difficulties in dealing with waste

   • water
   • air
   • rubbish

5. Sustainable urban living

   • Sustainable city CURITIBA Brazil
     • transport bus
     • Green exchange
     • parks
     • urban planning
     • recycling and garbage
   • conserving historic and natural env
   • Using Brownfield sites
   • bedzed
   • Hanham hall