... district). This is the most accessible part of the city and was full of shops, offices and entertainment facilities. There are many important buildings here such as town halls, foreign embassies and museums. There are many roads and different types of public transport, which helps to make the C.B.D easily accessible. Due to limited space and high demand for land, the C.B.D becomes highly dense and as a result of this, tall buildings are erected. There is little space for factories and industry. The 2nd ring was named the zone of transition (inner city). This in the early 19th century was where most factory and industry was. The owners of the factories built there workers high density terraced housing laid out in a grid-iron pattern. As the population grew in the inner suburbs, the terraced housing became slums with poor facilities such as gardens and parking spaces/garages. The 3rd ring was called the ...

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