Editing Cardiff (section)

==Cityscape==
{{See also|List of places in Cardiff}}
[[File:Cardiff Bay from Penarth.jpg|thumb|left|Overlooking [[Cardiff Bay]], viewed from [[Penarth]]]]
[[File:Cathays Library (2010), Cardiff.jpg|thumb|Cathays Library]]
[[File:Dock feeder canal in Atlantic Wharf - geograph.org.uk - 1654966.jpg|thumb|The dock feeder canal<br />[[Atlantic Wharf]]]]
"Inner Cardiff" consists of the wards of [[Plasnewydd]], [[Gabalfa]], [[Roath]], [[Cathays (electoral ward)|Cathays]], [[Adamsdown]] and [[Splott]] ward on the north and east of the city centre, and [[Butetown]], [[Grangetown, Cardiff|Grangetown]], [[Riverside, Cardiff|Riverside]] and [[Canton, Cardiff|Canton]] to the south and west.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cardifflife.net/cardiffwheretolive.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094036/http://www.cardifflife.net/cardiffwheretolive.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 September 2007 |title=Places to live in Cardiff |publisher=cardifflife.net |access-date=1 June 2009 }}</ref> The inner-city areas to the south of the [[A4161 road]], known as the "Southern Arc", are with the exception of Cardiff Bay some of the poorest districts of Wales, with low levels of economic activity.<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Alan Hooper |author2=John Punter |title=Capital Cardiff 1975–2020: Regeneration, Competitiveness and the Urban Environment |publisher=[[University of Wales Press]] |location=Cardiff |year=2006 |page=63 |isbn=0-7083-2063-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvud9bNwTisC&q=%22southern+arc%22+cardiff&pg=PT81 |access-date=15 October 2020 |archive-date=28 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528130604/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvud9bNwTisC&q=%22southern+arc%22+cardiff&pg=PT81 |url-status=live }}</ref> On the other hand, Gabalfa, Plasnewydd and Cathays north of the 'arc' have large student populations,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/for/prospective/pg/life/accommodation/areasofcardiff/index.html |title=Areas of Cardiff |publisher=Cardiff University |access-date=18 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110117170044/http://cardiff.ac.uk/for/prospective/pg/life/accommodation/areasofcardiff/index.html |archive-date=17 January 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> and Pontcanna (north of Riverside and alongside Canton) is a favourite for students and young professionals. [[Penylan]], to the north east of Roath Park, is an affluent area popular with older parents and the retired.

To the west lie [[Ely, Cardiff|Ely]] and [[Caerau, Cardiff|Caerau]], which have some of the largest housing estates in the United Kingdom. With the exception of some outlying privately built estates at [[Michaelston-super-Ely]], this is an economically disadvantaged area with high numbers of unemployed households. [[Culverhouse Cross]] is a more affluent western area of the city. [[Fairwater, Cardiff|Fairwater]], [[Heath, Cardiff|Heath]], [[Birchgrove, Cardiff|Birchgrove]], [[Gabalfa]], [[Mynachdy]], [[Llandaff North]], [[Llandaff]], [[Llanishen]], [[Radyr]], [[Whitchurch, Cardiff|Whitchurch]] & [[Tongwynlais]], [[Rhiwbina]], [[Thornhill, Cardiff|Thornhill]], [[Lisvane]] and [[Cyncoed]] lie in an arc from the north-west to the north-east of the centre. Lisvane, Cyncoed, Radyr and Rhiwbina contain some of the most expensive housing in Wales.

Further east lie the wards of Pontprennau and Old St Mellons, Rumney, [[Pentwyn, Cardiff|Pentwyn]], [[Llanrumney]], [[Llanedeyrn]] and [[Trowbridge, Cardiff|Trowbridge]]. The last four are largely public housing stock, although much new private housing is being built in Trowbridge. [[Pontprennau]] is the newest "suburb" of Cardiff, while [[St Mellons|Old St Mellons]] has a history going back to the 11th-century [[Norman Conquest]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oldstmellons.co.uk/history/ |title=Old St Mellons History |access-date=18 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213150548/http://www.oldstmellons.co.uk/history/ |archive-date=13 December 2007 }}</ref> The region that may be called "Rural Cardiff" contains the villages of [[St. Fagans|St Fagans]], Creigiau, [[Pentyrch]], [[Tongwynlais]] and [[Gwaelod-y-garth]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2870%2C3139%2C3158%2C3965&parent_directory_id=2865 |title=Landscape Study of Cardiff |date=17 October 2008 |publisher=Cardiff County Council |access-date=22 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927160311/http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?Parent_Directory_id=2865&nav=2870%2C3139%2C3158%2C3965 |archive-date=27 September 2006 }}</ref> In 2017, plans were approved for a new suburb of 7,000 homes between [[Radyr]] and [[St Fagans]], known as [[Plasdwr|Plasdŵr]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40342706 |title=Bus interchange future for Cardiff to be revealed |work=BBC News |date=27 June 2017 |access-date=29 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202224806/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40342706 |archive-date=2 December 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> St Fagans, home to the [[Museum of Welsh Life]], is protected from further development.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ObjView.asp?Object_ID=9569 |title=St Fagans Conservation Area Appraisal |year=2007 |publisher=Cardiff County Council |access-date=18 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609185142/http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ObjView.asp?Object_ID=9569 |archive-date=9 June 2011 }}</ref>

Since 2000, there has been a marked change of scale and building height in Cardiff, with the development of the [[Cardiff city centre|city centre]]'s first purpose-built high-rise apartments.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hooper |first=Alan |author2=Hunter, John |title=Capital Cardiff 1975–2020. Regeneration, Competitiveness and the Urban Environment |editor=Alan Hooper, John Punter |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7083-2063-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvud9bNwTisC&q=%22Regeneration,+Competitiveness+and+the+Urban+Environment%22 |access-date=15 October 2020 |archive-date=28 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528130604/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvud9bNwTisC&q=%22Regeneration%2C+Competitiveness+and+the+Urban+Environment%22 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[List of tallest buildings and structures in Cardiff|Tall buildings]] have been built in the city centre and Cardiff Bay, and more are planned.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.skyscrapernews.com/bdbsearch.php?city=Cardiff |title=Skyscrapernews.com search results: Cardiff |access-date=23 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103115124/http://skyscrapernews.com/bdbsearch.php?city=Cardiff |archive-date=3 January 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>