2.1.10 - Urban management and the challenges of continuity/change Flashcards
(12 cards)
what is the effect of urban areas rebranding?
- more quaternary industry and young population
- social media highlights the changes
- conflicting perceptions of a place
- seen as more of a ‘safe city’
how can places combat where the urban rebranding has failed?
- building new homes
- increasing public transport links
- sustainability and working with finite resources
- updating older working areas/machinery
how does overheating cause problems in urban areas with failed rebranding?
- brownfield sites get built on for quaternary industry (expensive)
- low income people do not have housing in global cities and cannot progress
- people have to commute to CBD’s
- major expensive housing nearby to airports/bigbusinesses
- brain drain affects rural areas
what is overheating?
where there is more demand for housing than housing can be built, results in increasing house prices and overcrowding
what are the challenges of segregation/inequality in urban areas?
- migration of people into an area (shapes demographic)
- replacement of other native groups of the area
- white people move away from urban centres
what type of segregation occurs due to the rebranding of urban area?
- ethnic
- class
- age
- religion
- language
what are the factors that lead to residential segregation in urban areas?
- whetehr people are buy or rent
- landlords only let in certain people
- demand in housing makes it expensive
- government policies to make immigrants paid more
- affluenmt households
- immigrants prefer to live close to eachother
how is residential segregation reduced in urban areas?
- policies against the richer people
- cheaper starter houses
- laws against discrimination
- benefits for those on less income and can pay for housing
what are some of the challenges of managing change in urban places due to covid-19 pandemic and economic change?
- local tensions,
- issues gotten worse since pandemic (inflation)
- cost of living crisis
why have banks/retail closed due to the pandemic, but tattoo parlours/pubs increased?
increased digital connectivity, people want human contact
how many stores clsoed due tot he pandemic? what is an example?
debenhams, 13.4% drop in stores
what are brexits implications?
inward investment, migration/tourist changes, import/export costs
