Geography Test 17/11/21

Question 1

How can shifting flows of investment affect demography? ⚪💸

Answer 1

• Gentrification can ‘outprice’ former low-income residents e.g. Stratford Olympic Park
• OR decline in investment can cause richer residents to move away from an area e.g. ‘White flight’ in Detroit.

Question 2

What are the different types of rebranding? + define rebranding

Answer 2

• Redeveloping rundown areas by gov. specialized funding
• Change the image of an area.
• Improve lived experience.
• Creating a new place meaning.

Question 3

Copenhagen - facts (7)🚲

Answer 3

• 55% of citizens use bikes on way to work
• 340km of cycle paths
• 90% of food is organic
• 20% of energy is wind
• River so clean people can swim in it
• Leftovers recycled
• Capital of Denmark

Question 4

What is suburbanization, give an example 🏗️

Answer 4

• City spreading outwards into outer city.
• Construction of Meadowhall in Sheffield is an example –> Jobs moved to the outer city, inner-city decline thousands of jobs lost in steel

Question 5

Mumbai facts (6)

Answer 5

• City in India
• 0.03 acres of open space per 1000
• 1/2 people in Mumbai live in slums
• Massive informal economy
• Only 33% of people in Mumbai are working
• Over 12 million people

Question 6

Mumbai project (1)

Answer 6

Dharvi Slum Redevelopment Project

- Providing 2000 families who can prove residency with a new 300sq foot home.

Question 7

London facts (5)

Answer 7

• Empire Windrush 1948
• Over 300 languages spoken
• Population of over 9 million
• 1/3 Londoners born outside the UK
• City of two halves - £1 poor £172 rich

Question 8

London projects (2)

Answer 8

• London living wage: 10,000 families lifted out of poverty by it - brings essentials
• London Challenge Initiative - helping pupils

Question 9

Sheffield (3)

Answer 9

• 90,000 people left unemployed due to steel industry decline
• Meadowhall reinforced deindustrialisation - declining CBD with 7000 new jobs in service.
• Opened in 1990