The supplied line graph illustrates the types of land usaged in the urban area of Newtown distributed into four different types, from the year 1980 to 2010. The provided bar graph depicts information about the mean price of lands over the period of 1980 to 2010 in three different areas such as residential, business, and park land.
As an overall trend, housing and park land that used to be the two most acquired land gradually decrease over the year, while conversely, shops and offices that were less popular slowly increased. Additionally, the most of the average cost of land in Newtown enlarged throughout the years.
Generally, the most noticeable change is the majority of land was for planting houses, 70 km2, from 1980 to 2010 which slowly declined over the years. Even though decreased, houses still accumulate most of the land by approximately 20 km2, which particular, twice the size of land used for building offices. In 1980 less than 20 km2 of the land were sorted for park land, offices, and shops which increased over the years. Yet in 2010, areas for parkland was less than 5 km2.
Moreover, in the spand of 30 years, the cost of land for residential and operating busines increase significantly from both less than 3 thousand pounds per km2 to around 3.5 thousand pounds per kms. Also, cost of park land fluctuates in the same price range of 1.5 – 2 thousands pounds.