contemporary issues in urban settlements

central business district
1. modern shopping centres
2. located in the heart of a city
3. the most assessable location in the city
urbanisation
1. advantages
  1. modern, attracitve
  2. accessible transport
  3. plenty of shops
  4. close to hospitals
  5. large amounts of green spaces
  6. great work links
2. disadvantages
  1. unattractive ?
  2. not enough green spaces ?
  3. houses are expensive
  4. pollution
  5. traffic conjestion
  6. over crowding
  7. segragation
sustainability
1. keep something going for a long time
2. recycling
3. green spaces
outer suburbs
1. suburban industrial estates
2. detached housing
3. commuter villages
4. community sprit is lost
inner city
1. high crime rate
2. terrace housing
3. rows upon rows of homes
inner suburbs
1. more space
2. semi detchad
3. local shops
4. front and back gardens
traffic issues
1. heavy congestion in rush hour traffic
2. accidents
3. raising bollards damaging cars
4. guided busways
soloutions
1. to crime
  1. cctv
  2. more police on streets
  3. harsher punnishments
2. to traffic
  1. more public trasport
  2. underground metro's
  3. borris bikes
  4. cycling and bus lanes
3. pollution
  1. catalytic converters
  2. green spaces
  3. use renewable resources
  4. promote electric cars
    1. add charging points
issues
1. crime
  1. murder
  2. theft
2. traffic
  1. conjestion
  2. long periods of time for repairs
3. pollution
  1. sound
  2. light
  3. air
slums
1. desease
2. rats
3. over polulation
4. plenty of jobs
5. extremely high community sprit

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