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Urban Forms (AQA AS Geography): Exam Questions

Exam code: 7036

19 mins3 questions
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9 marks
Figure 4 summarises a student's investigation into land use change from a town centre, with aim, theory, hypothesis, and data collection method detailed.
Diagram of urban development from open country to town centre with various housing types, businesses, and sampling points marked 0-10 over 5500m.
Table titled Figure 6 showing sampling points, distance from town centre in metres, and percentage of shops at each point.
Table titled "Figure 7" showing sampling data with distances, shop percentages, ranks, differences, and calculations for Spearman’s rank correlation.
Table titled "Figure 8" compares levels of significance. For n=10, values are 0.564 at 0.05 and 0.746 at 0.01 significance levels.

Aim

The student’s aim was to investigate if there was a change in dominant land use with distance from the town centre.

Hypothesis

‘The percentage of buildings used as shops will decrease with distance from the town centre.’

The student concluded that his data collection and processing had enabled him to reliably test his hypothesis and meet the aim of his enquiry.

Using Figures 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, to what extent do you agree?

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1 mark

Which of the following are features of fortress developments?

  • Spaces in urban areas that have become the focus of the production and consumption of culture.

  • Self-contained urban areas found beyond the edge of existing cities, developing as cities in their own right.

  • Urban spaces designed around security, protection, surveillance and exclusion.

  • Urban spaces where properties have been renovated and improved by wealthy individuals, forcing out less affluent residents.

Choose your answer

3
9 marks

Evaluate how lived experience of place may have changed in a gentrified area.

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