Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Changing Urban Environments:
Case Study; Birmingham CBD
- Problems
- Merry Hill out-of-town
Shopping Centre Opened
- In 1989
- Birmingham's CBD
saw a decline in
trade of 12% over
the next 5 years
- Solutions
- Improve environmental
quality for pedestrians
- Access to the city centre
through public and private
transport facilities
- Make the city a highly attractive
place to visit and do business
- New Street Development
- Newly Paved and Pedestrianised
- Trees and Grass make it
feel more natural
- Street lighting
- Widened, more spacious
- Benches, Bins etc
- Bull Ring
- Plans made to rebuild the Bull Ring in
1980s
- Demolished in 2000
- Largest retail regeneration
project in Europe
- cost £500 million
- Reopened in June 2003
- Mail Box
- Used to be Royal Mail
sorting office
- Inside redeveloped into a
multi-use mall
- Uses
- 40 retail outlets:
Emporio Armani, Harvey
Nichols
- Two Hotels: Malmaison
and Days Hotel
- Office Space: HQ for
BBC Birmingham