Test the hypothesis "Has the CBD in St. Ives migrated in the last 30 years?"

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GEOGRAPHY PROJECT:

ST. IVES CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

Introduction

In this project is to test the hypothesis “Has the CBD in St. Ives migrated in the last 30 years?” But before we can determine this we need find out what a CBD is. I have got some definitions of a CBD.

Definition 1: The CBD is a small but also very accessible area very good for business so the cost of land here is very high.

 

Definition 2: A CBD is a small area in the middle of a town or city that has most of the concentrated businesses in. They are often built up instead of outwards because of land prices

Definition 3: Burgess was a geographer who believed that all cities had a fundamental similarity he described this in a diagram called the “Burgess Zone Model”. After this another geographer called Hoyt came up with another diagram called Hoyt Sector Model”  (These can be seen below)

Definition: Burgess Zone Model 

The Burgess model suggests that cities grow outwards from the CBD in a series of concentric rings. The oldest part of the city is at the centre and the newest part on the outer edge. The quality and size of housing increases with distance from the CBD but the density of housing decreases with more open space available

Definition: Hoyt Sector Model

This model suggests that transport and physical features were important, with industrial areas developing outwards in sectors along main transport routes

(roads, rivers and canals) and housing growing up around these.

I aim to test this hypothesis by collecting primary data from the modern CBD, which is to go into the CBD collect my own data, and then compare it to the other secondary data, or data collected by someone else, from 1970.

Methodology

         

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I am going to then compare these results to the 1970 GOAD maps

Geographical Background to St. Ives

        St. Ives is a small bridge town in Cambridgeshire in between Cambridge and Huntington. It started because of the bridge. People would come from a long way away to cross the Ouse on this bridge. It is this fact why the town grew, more and more people started to come across the bridge shops appeared, the town grew and grew. Here is a population graph of St. Ives ...

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