Hypotheses 1: Changes in land use have resulted in an improvement in the environmental quality of the Shepherds Bush area.

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How Has the Dominant Land Use Changed Over Time In Part of Your Chosen Settlement?

Hypotheses 1: Changes in land use have resulted in an improvement in the environmental quality of the Shepherds Bush area.

Hypotheses2: The sustainable management of visual pollution varies according to land use.

Justification for Hypotheses 1

When Westfield shopping centre was built and opened on 30th October 2008, Shepherds Bush area has changed since the shopping centre has been built. The shopping centre itself is a very clean area; the attractive, clean design brings tourists from all over the world to the shopping centre. Before Westfield had been built the pollution level was very high, the local residents to Shepherds Bush usually got their low order goods from Shepherds Bush market. Now they can look to find better quality/high quality goods at the Westfield shopping centre. New recycling systems have been put into place, which will make the area cleaner as a whole, also the amount of Recycle/waste disposal bins have increased since Westfield was built. Westfield was built on a brown field site, which is where derelict offices used to lay.

Justification for Hypotheses 2

As the Westfield shopping centre has been built, more people travel through Shepherds Bush on a day to day basis. When people travel through a certain area the amount of pollution increases through significant things such as litter, carbon emissions and vandalism. This causes the area to look worse and repel tourists. The Burgess model is where geographers have put models of land use to show how a city is laid out. This model is based on the values of a town or city. They describe/group the different cities into different sections, such as: Central business district, Factories /industry, working class housing, middle class housing and commuter zone.

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Background information

Since Westfield shopping centre was built the amount of houses have almost doubled and less derelict houses have been seen.  This has put a weight on the amount of environmental quality in the area, people that have moved to the area respect the area as it is a tourist attraction site. The amount of litter bins there are in area has changed, and they have also brought in more recycling systems which allow people to look after the new Westfield shopping centre area. According to the BBC, Shepherds bush has around 11,000 people living in it today. This ...

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