Case studies Flashcards
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CS: Studentification in Swansea
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- Campus initially intended to hold 3,000, now holds 25,000
- Unkempt gardens, antisocial behaviour
- Brynmill (suburb close to uni), students overload prices, loss of community
- Empty 2 months /yr
- Too many cars > crowded streets
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CS: Migration in Peterborough
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- Councillor who let in 50 Asian families recieved desth threats
- Lack of understanding of waste disposal system lead to high amount of fly tipping
- 1000 new NHS patients over span of 6 months often with language barriers costing time & money
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CS: Brain drain Greece
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- 300,000 left during 2008 financial crisis
- Over 5,000 doctors went to Germany
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CS: Brixton gentrification
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- Old stalls/shops forced out > loss of culture & character
- Houses rennovated from ‘squats to £400,000 homes
- People denied chance to live where they grew up due to increasing house prices
- Cheaper shops being slowly replaced by upmarket shops/restaurants
- School closed & turned into gated community
- Used to be a place to aviod for some, now a trendy place
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CS: UK coal industry
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- Over 1.2m employed 1920 > now 3,000
- Britain aiming to be coal free by 2025
- Due to competition, new energy sources, political issues, privitisation, global warming
- Poor living standards in places that previously relied upon the coal industry
- Penrhiwceiber (former mmining village); 50% of children live in poverty & many attend EU funded school
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CS: Sheffield steel industry
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- Stainless steel invented there in 1912
- 50k employed in 1990, 15k in 2015
- Only one remaining forge
- Demand for steel reduced + foreign competition
- E6.4bn subsidy in Germany vs £100m in UK
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CS: Technium failure
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- Set up by Welsh gov to put Wales into ‘high tech fast lane’
- £100m on 10 buildings (mostly EU funded)
- Aimed to start 250 businesses but only 86
- Occupancy rates as low as 4%
- £26m turnover rate when aim was £112m
- No explicit objective
- Poor management
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CS: M4 Corridoor
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- London > Swansea
- Near OXford, Reading, Cardiff, Swansea, Bristol unis
- Lots of tech companies such as Vodafone, Deliveroo, Shazam
- Good transport links to London & airports eg Heathrow
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CS: Akademgorodok
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- Footloose; only need WiFi, electriccity etc
- Research booming here during soviet times
- Intelligent youth selected & put through intensive STEM education program
- Dubbed Silicon Forest
- Post soviet, collapsed dur to fall in funding
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CS: Silicon Roundabout, Shoreditch
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- Tech cluster around Old Street Roudabout, Shoreditch
- Cheap rent & brownfield sites attracted investment from tech companies
- £2bn in capital investment in past 5 years
- Employs over 65,000 people
- Business increased by 71% from 2016-2020
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CS: Jimmy’s farm, Suffolk
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- Petting zoo
- Wedding venue
- Restaurant open 7 days a week for brunch, lunch, dinner
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CS: Diddly Squat farm, Cotswolds
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- Co-operative group selling local produce in farm shop
- Restaurant selling 100% local produce
- Rewilding in a section of the farm
- Difficulty developing due to Cotswolds being an AONB
- Development has required large amounts of investment
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CS: 2nd homes in St Ives, Cornwall
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- 25% holiday or 2nd homes
- Council introduced new policy that new housing developments can only be sold to those who have lived there for at least 3 years
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CS: London Docklands
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- Used to be biggest port in the world but collapsed due to containerisation in 1970s
- London Docklands Decelopment Corporation (LDDC) set up in 1981
- Now a financial district, Canary Wharf
- Land made rate free for 10 years (Enterprise Zone)
- DLR built to connect it to Canary Wharf
- Loss of identity as designed by American architects
- New jobs provided not suitable for residents living there (low skill dock work > high skill tech & finance)
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CS: Stratford, East London
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- Previously an industrial area; polluted canals, low cost & poor quality housing, one of the most deprived communities in the country, lack of infrastructure
- Developed as part of preparation for 2012 Olympics
- Wanted to avoid previous fails such as Athens 2004
- £10m for training for workers in Westfield shopping centre
- Athlete’s Village converted into 3000 houses, 40% classed as ‘affordable’
- New school given place to 2000 new students
- Infrastructure improved; Stratford now 2nd most connected part of LDN
- 400 affordable homes destroyed & 9000 jobs lost or moved
- 25% recycled material in park
- £10bn cost however estimated to have generated similar ammount
