Urban Management and Challenges of Continuity & Change Flashcards
What does successful regeneration do?
Change the image of a place, often in terms of safety, attractiveness as a living area and employment
What does successful regeneration lead to?
A higher-earning, younger population moving into regenerated areas and pricing out the less affluent. The service sector in this area also becomes catered to said population.
What are ubiquitous commons?
Resources widely available to anybody - the same access to knowledge and information-sharing as one another.
How have work sites changed?
They have gone from primarily physical - an office building in a major city - to an online site with external links and possible peripheral branches.
What is the Living in Safe Cities movement?
Response of the EICI to challenges of urban life. It is an index used to decide if a city is safe - based off of Digital Security, Health Security, Infrastructure Effectivity and Personal Safety.
What are Smart Cities?
Envisages urban managers and technology to work together to increase QOL. AI, GPS and the IoT can manage energy, water, transport, logistics and air&environment quality. Approximately £1 trillion will be invested in this across Europe by 2030.
What is the Bristol is Open movement?
A joint venture between UoB and Bristol Council so Bristol is recognised as the UKs leading Smart City. With joint funding it aims to provide a socially fair QOL for all. Creates a network of 144 fibre cables, 1 mile worth of wireless connectivity and 1500 lamppost sensors. Aims to create 95,000 new jobs, reduce carbon emissions by 40% and have Bristol recognised as a top-20 European city.
What are the main challenges where regeneration and rebranding have failed?
Decline speeds up - if businesses are attracted to one another then decline cycles as other business also leave the area.
Many urban areas stay crowded and congested - hard to incite new businesses to start up.
Many areas away from a CBD or other growth area lack the effective comms to make it feasible.
What are the 5 challenges for urban areas?
Rebranding Urban economies
Building New Homes
Linking People and Places
Living with Finite Resources
Fixing Broken Machinery.
How is rebranding urban economies a challenge?
Lower population correlated with a lower GDP/capita. Initially an area will be designated a Regional Pole if it has some benefit, then a Specialised Pole if it has a significant speciality, then an International Hub if it reaches London size.
How is building new homes a challenge?
It is hard to find brownfield sites in cities or other areas without encroaching on the Green Belt.
Greyfield sites are often used - unused public amenity land.
How is linking people and places a challenge?
Trams were abolished in many major cities but are efficient nowadays. Many cities are not built for cars or bikes, and so it is hard to adjust roads to cope wit modern patterns of workplaces and volume of vehicles is a challenge.
How is living with finite resources a challenge?
Needs sustainable energy, housing, waste management and sustainable water & food. City inhabitants consume 75% of natural resources globally.
How is fixing broken machinery a challenge?
The 2015 Budget allocated £40M to the Internet of Things, which is wildly insufficient.
What are the 3 categorisations for the Centre for Cities city types?
Bouyant - London, Cambridge
Stable - Portsmouth, Southampton
Struggling - Hull, Burnley
