regen Flashcards
(21 cards)
Economic Activity
Activity if making, providing, purchasing or selling goods or services
Employment Structure
How the workforce is divided up between the employment sectors
Economic Sector
Different sectors of the economy based on their role e.g. primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary
Primary Sector
Low paid, manual work (agriculture, forestry, mining, fishing)
Secondary Sector
Low paid, manual work (manufacturing)
Tertiary Sector
Ranges from minimum wage to high paid professionals (retail, services, office work)
Quaternary Sector
Jobs in research, development and high tech industries (Scientific Research, ICT)
Quality of Life Indices
- Health
- Life Expectancy
- Levels of Education
Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
Uses statistics of income, employment, health deprivation, disability, education, housing, crime and environment quality to produce an index reflecting the overall quality of life
Rust Belt
Midwest USA
Deindustrialisation due to = shrinking industry, globalisation, automation, steel and coal decline
Detroit deprivation = 45/100000 murders in Detroit, over 8% unemployment, 50% decline in population since 1950
Clarke Fisher Model
Used to represent changes in employment during the ‘pre-industrial’, ‘industrial’ and ‘post-industrial’ periods
Factors impacting engagement
Age/Gender (Older people more engaged)
Ethnicity (participation increased in certain parts of UK)
Sense of membership
Influence
Residency time (longer = more engaged)
Deprivation (Inequality drives participation)
Attachment to a place
things that tie residents to a place
Cause of regeneration conflict
Inequality, ethnic tensions, lack of political engagement, rural/urban divide
HS2
Part of Northern Powerhouse plan to build over 300 miles of high-speed railway to regenerate multiple regions of the UK
Positives = 25,000 jobs, greater connectedness for 30m people, £92bn benefit after construction
Conflicts = local people and environmentalists against plan, £56bn cost, concerns that it doesn’t solve the issue of London-centricity
ONS
Office for National Statistics - responsible for holding/gathering a wide range of data on the UK
Place
Geographical space shaped by individuals/ communities over time
Regeneration
- Long-term upgrading of existing places
- Aims to tackle inequality
- Makes places more economically productive and socially acceptable
What is rebranding?
Developments aimed at changing negative perceptions of a place making it more attractive to investment
What is re-imaging?
The process of making a place more attractive to live or visit and more desirable to invest in
