N5 Urban Revision

Put these land use zones in the correct order from the centre to the edge:

• Old Housing

• CBD

• New Industry

• Old Industry

• New Housing

Can you match these statements to the correct land use zone?

Groups:

(a) CBD

,

(b) Inner City

,

(c) New Housing

,

(d) New Industry

• Tallest buildings

• Car parks for workers

• Planned industrial estates

• Curvilinear street pattern

• Modern, single storey units

• Housing next to factories

• Tourist information centre

• Main transport routes

• Shipyards and canals

• Grid iron street pattern

• Lack of open space

• Detached or semi-detached houses

• Most shops and museums

• Tenements

• Cheapest land on the edge

• Chimneys

• Suburbs

• Gardens and garages

• Local shops for bread and milk

• Close to motorways

Can you match the changes in Glasgow’s CBD to their reasons?

• Competition from out-of-town malls

• Undercover shopping centres

• So there are fewer cars in the CBD

• Park and Ride schemes

• More pleasant shopping experience

• One-way streets

• Safer with less pollution

• Pedestrianisation

• Allows better traffic flow

• Shop closures

Old tenements in the inner city were renovated recently by ​ (a)  

• replacing windows
• Knocking them down

High rise flats such as the ​ (a)   have been demolished.

• Red Road flats
• Green Street flats

New apartments have been built along Glasgow ​ (a)  

• harbour
• Queen Street

Existing ​ (a)   stations such as Partick Interchange were upgraded.

• train
• bus

Old industrial sites along the river have been regenerated to encourage ​ (a)  

• tourism
• vandalism

New energy efficient housing, initially built for the ​ (a)   , are now available for local people to buy or rent.

• Commonwealth Games
• Olympic Games

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