To investigate the characteristics of two contrasting CBD's.

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Introduction

Shrivenham is a small village in Oxfordshire near Faringdon. It has two churches and a few shops and services. It has a high achieving football and cricket team and has a population of around 2000. Swindon is a much larger town in Wiltshire with a population of 150,000. It is running for city status so has many shops and services.

Aim

To investigate the characteristics of two contrasting CBD’s.

Hypothesis

  1. The bigger the population of a settlement, the greater the number of services and the size of the CBD.
  2. The bigger the population of a settlement, the greater the sphere of influence.
  3. The bigger the population of a settlement, the poorer the quality of the environment within the CBD.
  4. The CBD (regardless of size) provides the same functions and services.

Methodology

I collected the data on two different days, once on Sunday evening and one on Monday morning to get better results.  Overall I did four activities to obtain my information; pedestrian traffic counts, land use survey, environmental quality survey and the questionnaires.  I also did some background research on the village and some extra research.

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I questioned around 30 people around Shrivenham High Street.  I approached a few more than 30 people but some were in a hurry or did not want to answer my questions.  I used the same questionnaires as I did in Swindon.  Although to prove or disprove hypothesis 2 all I needed to do was to work out the sphere of influence of Shrivenham so I only really needed the question of where people came from, although the others were interesting.  I asked half the questions on Sunday night and the other half on Monday morning to get a better ...

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