economic change

Question 1

economic change

Answer 1

economic change is a complex process that effects places at varying scales

Question 2

players

Answer 2

also referred to as stakeholders, individuals, groups or formal organisations who can influence or be influenced by the processes of change,
-business
-goverment
-public

Question 3

Birmingham

Answer 3

Birmingham is a large metropolitan region at the heart of the West Midlands amid 2014 there was 1.1 million residents making it the second largest city after London

Question 4

Birminghams development in the 1960s

Answer 4

Birmingham is also known as the city of 1000 trades Birmingham is a product of the industrial revolution. The first player to influence changes with the de bimigham family

Question 5

when did the first market start in birgimgham

Answer 5

1166

Question 6

medieval Birmingham

Answer 6

half a dozen streets
metal work already established
power came from the water mills with the products increasingly becoming non agriculture

Question 7

the industrial revolution

Question 8

population in ealry 1700s

Answer 8

15,000 with many of the townes inhabiltants migrating from rural areas in search of employment

Question 9

who established the first factory?

Answer 9

Matthew Bolton, he was an entrepnure and engineer, he estabsliehd the first factory in the world. and brought 700 employees under one roof with a completely industrialised process

Question 10

9th century

Answer 10

extraordinary growth, the gun, jewellery, button and brass industries dominated

Question 11

the cadbury family

Answer 11

the cadbury family set up their bournvill factory and model village for the workers on their southeast outskirts of the city,

Question 12

transport

Answer 12

transport and infastructure developed hand in hand with the industrial growth, birgmigahm lay at the heart of national canal networks in the midlands

Question 13

when did the railways network between London and Birmingham open?

Answer 13

1838

Question 14

1990s-1950s-

Answer 14

birmigham continued to grow durin the first half of the 20th centrey, new engineering industries developed continuing as the vehicle industry expended.

throughout the first half of the 20th century Birmingham sustained economic growth, this was accomnied by continuous population growth from both nautrel incraese and immigration from rural areas

Question 15

what type of housing was built

Answer 15

large areas of terraced housing was built for workers in the many industries that were squeezed into spaces between factories most people live walking distance of their work however the development of a middle-class who could afford to commute helps drive urban expansion.

Question 16

pollution

Answer 16

Decades of industrial activity had left landslides, canals and rivers with high levels of pollution. Pollution reach high levels with controls on emissions almost non-existent
-smoke, sulfer dioxide

Question 17

post war, industrial decline

Answer 17

Birmingham was a prosperous city for most of the 1950s and 60s with employment below 1% however between 1970 and 1983 earnings fell from the highest in the UK almost the lowest of any region

Question 18

What was unemployment in 1982

Answer 18

19.4%

Question 19

people with no car in 1970

Answer 19

49%

Question 20

people with no car in 2010

Answer 20

21%

Question 21

what was signfcant in 1970?

Answer 21

global recession

Question 22

when was the oil crisis?

Answer 22

1973

Question 23

what happend in the oil crisis?

Answer 23

The fragile geopolitics of the Middle East it resulted in another Arab/Israel war most Western countries supported Israel and the organisations of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC)

Dominated by the Arab states such as Saudi Arabia oil supplies were used as a weapon. This was a catastrophic shock to the global economic system as oil prices increased by around 10 times. People forecasted energy prices to remain cheap for the for seeable

Question 24

impact of the oil crisis on Birmingham

Answer 24

Birmingham traditional industry were beginning to suffer from increasing overseas competition, from TNC’s based in countries with lower production costs.

this was part of a the global shift in economic structure which the oil crisis gave to added impetus

Question 25

Big TNCS

Answer 25

the car industry in japan