What is Land Use and - What is a typical urban land use model?

1. What is Land Use and - What is a typical urban land use model?

2. Good idea is to print this info. for students to examine whilst doing the A3 concentric ring task.

3. Land use is simply what the land is being used for. For example the land use here is a school. The land use 70 metres to the south is leisure (Fanshawe Pool) and a further 100 metres south the land is being used by Glaxo so the land use is Industry. 100 metres to the west the land use is residential – (housing).

4. The Burgess land Use model A geographer in the 1930s called Burgess observed different ‘zones’ in a typical city and so formed his own land use model using concentric rings. • Later another geographer developed the model to add ‘sectors’ because he noted that some development e.g. housing followed roads or rivers or railways. • Activity • Using key Geography P156 quickly copy A plus the key.

5. The zones • The central zone is known as the Central Business District (The CBD). • Here is the site of the original city. • The land costs the most here. • Transport links e.g. road and rail start from the CBD so it is accessible. • A lack of space means buildings develop vertically. • The land use is offices and large stores e.g. Marks and Spencers because other businesses/ people cannot afford the costs there.

6. The inner city • Sometimes known as the transition zone this is where factories, old warehouses, terraced houses are found. • Today some of these areas are undergoing urban regeneration. e.g. Stratford in East London

7. Inner City (continued) • The terraced houses were originally built for workers of the factories in the inner city, next to the CBD. • They have small/no front gardens. • Are all joined together. • Do not have garages – (Why not???)

8. Inner Suburbs • As we move out of town the land values decrease so the houses tend to be a bit larger. • Typical houses are semi detached with front and back gardens e.g. Fanshawe Crescent, and as there is more space there tends to be parks in this zone.

9. Outer Suburbs • This is on the edge of the city. • Characteristics include detached houses as there is even more space and lower land valued per m². • The gardens are bigger than semis though this is not necessarily true for new houses. • These days industrial and retail parks e.g. out of town shopping and DIY stores can be found here.