An ‘Urban Environment’ can be described as a districted which surrounds a city. The population living in urban do not have rural jobs. Urban areas are often very humanly structured due to the variety of houses, railways, buildings and roads. The town where I live would come under the Urban Environment as it has all the things listed in the what an urban area contains.
In Inverclyde, Greenock the buildings vary between old and modern builds. Some of the oldest buildings are used by many people, such as the local town hall, also known as the Municipal Buildings is used by Inverclyde Council and the local library. Another old building is the Mclean Museum and art gallery which has been around since the 1876 and is still open today. There are many old builds of church as well which are still located within Inverclyde, Greenock. Most school’s would come under as a new build as many within Inverclyde, Greenock have been refurbished and/or knocked down in the past years.
There is a variety of transport used in Inverclyde, Greenock such as, cars, trains and buses. All of these modes of transport are used on a daily bases but also allow people to get to the different places they needed to be such as work, school, university/college and many other places. However, cars are probably the most common and used means of transport for many people because it tends to be quicker than the other types of transport. There is a variety of issues caused by all types of transport such as, traffic congestion, parking difficulties, longer commuting times, maintenance costs, loss of public space and many more.
Within Inverclyde Greenock there is around seven local Primary Schools and three High Schools all of which are sitting nearly at full capacity. There is not a community centre in the area as it is still in the process of being built. There is a local library, that is opened to everyone as a study space. Primary Schools take classes to the library for pupils to know the services available to them. The library offers classes such as ‘Book Bug’ and ‘Rhyme Time’ these is babies and toddlers showing services are open to all.
Inverclyde’s population ranges from early years to adulthood. For young people there is space for football, tennis and badminton this is also open for the use of adults as well as gym. This allows people somewhere to go as a means of keeping people off the streets reducing temptation of trouble. Within Greenock we are fortunate enough to have a theatre, many different drama and dance schools use this facility. Those who take part in both drama and dance schools ages vary meaning it offers something for every person.
In Inverclyde, Greenock could be described as a roadside type environment, thus resulting in the air quality being vary low. Using ‘Air Quality Scotland’ helped to see air quality being low and this is due to the amount of pollution caused by the amount of cars that are on the road.
A lesson that could be done with a Primary 5 Class splitting the class into two different groups, one half of the class research rural environments and the other half research urban environments trying to get as much detail as possible. In each of the groups create a presentation on what has been learned about both environments then present to the rest of the class. In doing this pupils will be working together and deciding what is essential to their presentation.
