investigating changing places

Question 1

What area in London went through function changes? And why did it change?

Answer 1

London’s east end docklands, the Thames use to be used for container ships but as ships were being built bigger the Thames was too shallow, manufacturing shifted to Asia as big ships were needed as they are cheaper

Question 2

when were the docks closed? how many people lose their jobs and wat did that lead to? what happened to the riverside? what happened to the population? what happened to other industries?

Answer 2

• 1981
• 12,000 jobs lost, 60% unemployment
• derelict
• fell by 100,000
• also closed down due to its reliance on exports and imports

Question 3

why did the inner cities need reimaging?

Answer 3

• poor image, little potential
• falling investment=environmental quality declined
• crime rose up (burglary up to 68%, violence up to 71%)
• deprivation and ethnic tensions led to riots in 1981 (Brixton)

Question 4

What corporation was determined to regenerate the London docks? and what were their focuses?

Answer 4

• The LDDC
• encouraged investment from property developers, architects and construction companies
• market-led regeneration
• focused on economic growth, infrastructure and housing

Question 5

ECONOMIC GROWTH-LDDC

Answer 5

• high rise offices (attract quaternary sectors) replaced docks
• wealth from high income workers would generate other jobs in poorer communities as a trickle down effect
• knowledge economy, attracting 100,000 commuters
• employment has grown but poverty still prevalent (27% working population in Newham earn £7-highest of any London borough)

Question 6

INFRASTRUCTURE-LDDC

Answer 6

-new transport links, extended jubilee line and docklands light railway building new roads and London city airport

Question 7

POPULATION & HOUSING-LDDC

Answer 7

• older generation replaced by younger, Newham’s average 31 in 2011
• Large scale immigration has increased ethnic mix, 2000
• 1980s- Right to buy, council tenants right to buy their home at a lower price, reduced social housing, houses now privately rented=raised prices, lower incomes forced out
• warehouses gentrified, expensive. working class houses been bought by middle class

Question 8

what are some problems that may still occur?

Answer 8

• poor health and deprivation (Newham and Tower Hamlets)
• deprivation remain in social housing areas
• right to buy=doesn’t replace with affordable housing=people’s income spent on rent
• Tower Hamlets- lowest life expectancy (77) in London