Before completing this task, I was unsure as to the definition of an urban environment and if where I live is considered one. I was able to take a walk around my town and look more closely at the characteristics it possessed.
Physical Characteristics
When walking around my town I realised there are very little newly built houses, all houses surrounding me including my own house are bungalows. Any houses that are not bungalows are red sandstone, however most houses have been extended and changed in some way. All houses have their own space and are not sitting on top of one another, a 5-minute walk from my house there is a large park with a small children park inside. Within a 10-minute walk from my house you come across a church, synagogue, and 2 community centres.
Transport
There are plenty of transport links in my town in each direction from my house there are 2 transitions within a 5 to 10 minute walk which get you into Glasgow city centre in 15 minutes. There are also bus stops surrounding my town, with buses coming around very 10 minutes.
Community spaces
There are many community centres in my town, there is also a library and church halls. The park has a pavilion where football teams are able to have their meetings and get ready for football matches held in the park. There is also a leisure centre which has a swimming pool, sauna and gym, this is next to the local high school which is very useful for school children wanting to be active.
Industry and Work
At this moment in time there is no industrial work taking place, as they have just finished re tarmacking the main roads, which did disturb traffic quite a lot in the area especially for the local shops. In my town we have a main road which has 2 supermarkets, a petrol station and many food and boutique shops.
Recreation Spaces
There is also a theatre next to the leisure centre where plays take place most weekends. In one of the parks there are pitches for people to play tennis, football and basketball.
Population
In my town, there is a population of 93,800 people.
Air
The highest recording of my air quality was level 3 which I was pleasantly surprised my especially when realising the high population of people, I live around and also being so close to a city centre.
Classroom
Ideas I had for children to investigate their environments is for their homework to go on a walk with their parents and take a note of all the things they can see in their environment. If they were able to take pictures and bring them into class for the other children to see. Also for myself to bring in pictures from my environment so if no children are able to bring pictures in I will have some to show them.
