Investigation - Recent housing developments have resulted in an improvement in the environmental quality of the Shepherds Bush area.

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Hypothesis 1

Recent housing developments have resulted in an improvement in the environmental quality of the Shepherds Bush area.

My hypothesis links to how land use has changed in the Shepherds Bush area over the past 200 years because, recent housing developments has changed the way land has been used.  They contrast with the old housing from years back.

The burgess model is an appropriate diagram to use when looking at the Shepherds Bush area. The CBD is Westfield and the lower class residential area is Shepherd’s Bush market and Uxbridge Road. According to the Burgess model, we should have the inner city housing in theory, outside the CBD. As you move further away; there are more medium and high class residents.

Originally, Westfield was a brown field site, which is a site, which has been abandoned or underused; it was knocked down in 1985 and made derelict until it was converted into the new shopping centre and new housing estates to improve the environmental quality of Shepherds Bush.

Hypothesis 2

There has been an increase in the provision of transport in the Shepherds Bush area, making it a more accessible hub.

The increase of accessibility of transport has directly impacted the way land use has been changed; more transport provides easier access to the area.

Transport is an essential feature of making Shepherds Bush more accessible. If a place is accessible large numbers of people can travel there to use the features, like Westfield.

This helps to make Shepherds Bush area a more accessible hub because it is easier to travel to and from there; making shopping easier. Greater accessibility will increase the sphere of influence and attract people from further away.

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The old White city stadium, before it was knocked down and built into modern housing estates and Westfield shopping centre.

Maps to show the location of Shepherds Bush

        

On our trip we visited 12 different places, these where split up into 4 main zones. We then collected different types of data.

One example is the Questionnaires we did, we found ...

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