Unit 3 Outline - MEDC City Centres
The Central Business District (CBD) is the town centre. This is usually the oldest part of a town, but CBDs have changed a lot in recent years. They now have to cope with more traffic and deal with the closure of old industrial sites.
A lot of the work here deals with issues relating to brownfield sites.
Key Content:
- How are town and city centres changing?
- What are the problems facing CBDs?
- How can CBDs be managed?
Major Case Studies:
- Traffic management in Norwich, including park and ride (NCC website
) and pedestrianisation; - City centre shopping redevelopments, such as the Chapelfield Centre (website)in Norwich;
- Norwich riverside redevelopment (
PDF Resource Sheet).
Unit 3 links very well to Unit 4 - the pressures in the rural-urban fringe. In fact, I'd suggest you might want to revise the two areas together.
Download the MEDC City Centres Revision Sheet
Download the Norwich Placemarks file for Google Earth. Read guidance on using Google Earth on the Google Earth Files page.
Jump to the BBC Bitesize section on CBDs - only use the page linked to. No need to go to other pages for this unit