Manchester

A detailed Summary of Manchester

Manchester is located in England in The MIDLANDS,

right in the centre of Britain, shown on Diagram 1. Manchester

has a population of about 450, 000 and a land size of 40,000

square metres. As you can see from Diagram 2 which is a base

map of Manchester, the form of this city is a core. (A core is

where settlements are clumped together in the middle and

situated randomly around the sides.) The reasons for this Core

formation is that the river Mersey is located in the centre of the

city and the topography of the land is resemble flat with a few

rolling hills here or there. Because of the flat relief it is easier

for a city to expand and to build more infrastructure. Also

because of the river and major roads accessibility is high into the

city. Due to the accessibility of the river it provides small boats

to sail to Liverpool and export cotton around world, which is the

main production industry in Manchester.

As you can see from diagram 3 which is the Land use

model, Manchester has a lot of residential settlements ( which

are in yellow) and commercial settlements (in pink). The

commercial settlements are situated near the river and main

Manchester called Route 30. Route 30 travels through some of

on the industrial zone and how well it produces products and

have decided to move to these areas to earn more money and

are found more often and used more frequent than big corporate

to rural parts of Manchester or to a smaller city.

in the industries factories and therefore live in Manchester. If

houses. These are houses like Coronation Street, that are close

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