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Key questions

• What are the different areas found in a MEDC city?

• How has Swansea’s CBD changed?

• What is the land used for in Swansea CBD?

• Where are these land uses found in Swansea’s CBD?

What does this show?

• A – CBD• B – Manufacturing area

(the twilight zone)• C – Old inner city• D – Medium class

residential (interwar housing)

• E – High class residential outer suburbs

Burgess land-use zone model

• A – CBD• B – Inner city

Manufacturing area• C – Inner city housing (the

twilight zone)• D – Inner suburbs -

Medium class residential (interwar housing)

• E – Outer suburbs - High class residential (Modern houses)

Swansea

How has Swansea’s CBD changed?

•Housing

•shops

•factories

• roads

• other services

e.g. leisure

Old South Dock & Spontex factory – Marina 1980s

Old Gasworks – Tesco 1990s

1940s bomb damaged centre 1960s City Centre Shops –redeveloped

Old North Dock – Parc Tawe shops and leisure 1985

Prince of Wales Docks – 2004 SA1 - Swansea Waterfront

Congestion around Tawe bridges – E/W Fabian Way

Quadrant Centre

County Hall

Wind Street - Café Quarter

Swansea High Street 2014 ‘mixed Urban Village use’

St. David’s Shopping Centre demolished 2013 – extend Quadrant?

Swansea City AFC left the Vetch Field

Now the ‘Vetch Veg’ allotment for inner city community

Future development?

Moved to Liberty Stadium purpose builtAbout 2Kms north towards Enterprise Park

The docks have changed! – they had to.

The South Dock has been changed to the Marina District

The North Dock was filled in to become Parc Tawe

A retail park found in the far east of the CBD along the River Tawe.

Much of this is comprehensive redevelopment

The Prince of Wales Dock is being redesigned

as SA1

-Swansea Waterfront

-With some protected landmarks

-New housing

-And new offices

Swansea was heavily bombed in WWII

The city centre had to be largely rebuilt

The City Centre around Castle Square

A lot of concrete was used – back in the 1960s

Now it is being redeveloped

What is the land used for in Swansea CBD?

The main retail area is located in the centre of the CBD, along Oxford Street which is pedestrianised and home to national chain stores.

Just south of Oxford Street is Swansea Market – Wales largest indoor market and the Quadrant which is a large indoor shopping centre with big name chain and department stores such as Debenhams.

St. David’s CentreCompleted in 1982, the complex was unsuccessful, in terms of filling its outlet spaces and retaining customers.

Demolished in Autumn 2013. Now left as a car park with the Quadrant Centre behind it.

What is the land used for in Swansea CBD?

Wind Street

Museum / Leisure Quarter

Wind Street is being retained as the café quarter –narrow streets are common in the older areas of the CBD

It is located in the East of the CBD, surrounding the main retail area.

Salubrious Place is a new hotel and Leisure complex at the end of Wind Street.

The other main entertainment area is found on the Kingsway, north of Oxford Street (Retail). Here you can find bars, restaurants and clubs.

Leisure

To the south of the Quadrant and Tesco’s is the leisure and culture area with the National Waterfront Museum.

As well as the popular 1970s Leisure Centre - closed 2003

Reopened in March 2008 following refurbishment now called ‘The LC’

What is the land used for in Swansea CBD?

Office districts• The main office area

is located in the north of the CBD along the main roads of Mansel and Orchard street.

Mix of low rise and high rise offices.Mansel Street

Oldway Centre - 36 Orchard Street, Swansea

The Boulevard

The main east west road through the city centre (Fabian Way to Oystermouth Road) is being redesigned. 2014

With the aid of a sketch map describe what the land is used for in a CBD that you have studied. (10marks)

Ext - How has Swansea’s CBD changed? (5marks)

Deprivation

Inner city

Urban fabric

Swansea

Narrow roads

Terraced

Landore copper works

Townhill

Segregation

Liberty Stadium

Hafod

Unemployment

St. Thomas Ward

Education

Swansea Vale

Housing tenure

Alberto Culver

Sketty / Uplands / Brynmill

Age

Ethnic minority

Castle

Council housing

Suburbs

High tech industry

M4 Motorway

Healthcare

SA1 development

Detached

Grants

Evening post newspaper press

Affluent

Religion

Owner occupied