EQ1

Question 1

Place?

Answer 1

Geographical spaces shaped by individuals and communities (known, attachment, security stable)

Question 2

Space?

Answer 2

Abstract, independence, freedom, undifferentiated/open

Question 3

3 ways employment type affects a place?

Answer 3

Types of buildings e.g. offices, factories e.g. London

Shops/services e.g. poundland, home bargains in poorer areas, designer shops in london

Housing, big homes in skilled areas e.g. Roman Road, small houses/flats in council estates e.g. wood end

Question 4

What is a primary sector and examples?

Answer 4

Extracting of raw materials from the ground or sea e.g. Farmers, fishing, miners, oil production

Question 5

What is a secondary sector and examples?

Answer 5

Manufacturing and processing of raw materials into goods e.g. construction worker, car manufacturer

Question 6

What is a tertiary sector and examples?

Answer 6

Service sector, including tourism and banking e.g. Healthcare, retail, education

Question 7

What is the quaternary sector and examples?

Answer 7

High tech research and design e.g. computing, programming, media, technology developers

Question 8

What is the Quinary sector and examples?

Answer 8

Knowledge management and consultancy e.g. NGOs, Management, Consulting, CEOs

Question 9

Healthcare:
Middlesbrough and London

Answer 9

Middlesbrough:
Worse health care, less health issues (more mental/social issues)

London:
Better healthcare, more health issues (cardiovascular + stress)

Question 10

What 3 things make a region successful?

Answer 10

Regeneration
by knocking down derelict buildings and building new, changing the image of a place through rebranding and re-imaging and improving existing buildings and area

Question 11

Regeneration?

Answer 11

The process of improving a rural or urban place by making positive changes

Question 12

5 examples of a successful region?

Answer 12

Less crime
High employment rates
High property prices
No homelessness
High retention

Question 13

What are the major underpinning factors that have driven the success of the Berkshire corridor?

Answer 13

Lots of high earning jobs which are easily accessible to by the M4 for commuting and airport

Question 14

5 indicators that an area is declining?

Answer 14

Graffiti

High crime rate

High levels of deprivation

Low priced properties - people cannot afford to more away so they are trapped

High unemployment

Question 15

4 things that makes a region decline?

Answer 15

Landlocked
Poor technology
Deindustrialisation
Resource poor

Question 16

Who should decide the regeneration plan of an area?

Answer 16

All stakeholders including local/national governments, communities and business

Question 17

What 3 factors might affect the sustainability of the regeneration plan?

Answer 17

Economic environment
Community engagement
Government priorities

Question 18

Major concerns of declining rural settlements?

Answer 18

An estimated 400 shops and 700 rural pubs closed in Britain in 2010 alone

Question 19

Major concerns of sink estates?

Answer 19

These residents are twice as likely to have mental health problems, 11 times more likely to be unemployed and 9 times more likely to be in a jobless house

Question 20

Major concerns of commuter villages?

Answer 20

Fewer services than the population needs

Question 21

Major concerns of gated communities?

Answer 21

Segregation from the locals and lack of community cohesion

Question 22

2 main priorities of declining rural settlements?

Answer 22

Connectivity
Providing job opportunities - reasons to stay

Question 23

3 main priorities of sink estates?

Answer 23

More police, environmental improvements and education

Question 24

3 main priorities of commuter villages?

Answer 24

Creating affordable housing
Encouraging local service providers
Sustainable public transport

Question 25

4 things that impact a person based on their type of employment?

Answer 25

Health: in general, those with low incomes have the poorest health Life expectancy: women who have a high managerial profession have a life expectancy of 85.2 years and women who are routine workers have 78.5. Education: Data shows children from lower-income families often underachieve at school Lifestyles: Higher salaries--> more disposable income, however does not always lead to a happier life. Those in SE England and London on average have higher salaries nut increased cost of living and housing

Question 26

What is inequality?

Answer 26

The outcome of uneven distributions. Focuses on the economic and social distributions that exist within communities

Question 27

Quality of life?

Answer 27

level of social and economic well-being experienced by individuals and communities Measured by factors like health, happiness, educational achievement

Question 28

4 factors affecting quality of life and inequality?

Answer 28

Economic - employment opportunities, income, type of work Social - segregation of people and exclusion of subgroups Service - access to public transport, health facilities and food Environmental - derelict land, pollution levels, access to open space

Question 29

2 ways to measure economic inequality?

Answer 29

index of multiple deprivation Purchasing power (shopping basket surveys)

Question 30

2 ways to measure social inequality?

Answer 30

www.police.uk Placecheck

Question 31

2 ways to measure service inequality?

Answer 31

Public transport timetable Interviews with local residents

Question 32

2 ways to measure environmental inequality?

Answer 32

Environmental quality surveys Pollution data

Question 33

Gentrification?

Answer 33

The movement of middle-class people back into rundown inner-urban areas, resulting in an improvement of the housing stock and image

Question 34

Studentification?

Answer 34

Social, economic and environmental change brought about by the concentration of students in particular areas near unis

Question 35

3 typical demographic changes in a place?

Answer 35

Increasing ethnicity trends socio-economic structure e.g.gentrification, deprivation and studentification

Question 36

3 ways that changes in places can be measured?

Answer 36

employment trends levels of deprivation demographic changes

Question 37

Places and their connections: what does the specification recommend that you focus particular attention on?

Answer 37

the regional and national connections of your places the international and global connections of your places