Regeneration Flashcards
(127 cards)
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What is place?
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An area with meaning
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What are the tree levels that changes are driven at?
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Locally, nationally and global
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What is regeneration?
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A form a place making designed to tackle inequalities in urban or rural places
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Why is regeneration needed?
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To make a place economically productive
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What is the global shift theory?
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Outsourcing manufacturing to south East Asia
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What happened as a result of global shift?
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Deindustrialisation and a spiral of decline
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What is a location quotient?
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A way of quantifying how concentrated a particular industry is in a region compared to the nation
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What is a spiral of decline?
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Masses of lost jobs, less money available and out migration
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What is a positive multiplier?
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Higher income leads to increased employment
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How do successful places become?
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They adapt to the demands and re-invent
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How do unsuccessful places become?
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They suffer from more losses
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How can a place become successful?
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Positive government led regeneration e.g the Olympics
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How did San Francisco become a reinventor city?
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Influx of .com companies, higher qualified individuals, high demand for services, house prices increase, gated communities
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What is gentrification?
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An increase cost of living
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Why do successful urban areas help rural areas?
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They become commuter towns with good transport links
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What is counter Ubanisation?
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Where people migrate to rural areas but work in urban areas
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What causes rural success?
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Accessibility and connectedness
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Where is Winchester located?
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Itchen Valley
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How many people live in Winchester?
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1,900
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What are the Indices of Multiple Deprivation?
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The breakdown of deprivation into different classes
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What is the intergenerational cycle of poverty?
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Educational underachievement may be in the genes
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What is quality of life?
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The level of social and economic wellbeing
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What is a sink estate?
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An estate with little population
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What is an issue with the population of Cornwall?
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It is elderly
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In 1998 what closed in Cornwall causing a spiral of decline?
The last tin mine
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What happened as a result of the last tin mine being closed in Cornwall?
There was a decrease in working aged people being employed
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What happened in Leeds that made it successsful?
Studentifacation
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What causes low house prices in Leeds?
Long term residents don't want to live there so move out
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What is the rust belt legacy?
The concentration of deindustrialisation and loss of unemployment
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Why is Scunthorpe an unsuccessful urban place?
Their money comes from steel-manufacturing which is declining due to global shift
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Why is crime rate and unemployment so high in Scunthorpe?
There are no jobs available so no income
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How might you change or re-invent an area?
Drive education and opportunities
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What % of people in Cornwall are over 65?
25%
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What is studentification?
Where specific neighbourhoods become dominated with students
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What can success in urban areas be due to?
Market forces
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What was the year for the San Fransisco .com boom?
1990
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What does demand for higher services lead to? (San Fransisco)?
Drove improvements in infrastructure and housing
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What is the average house price in Haight Ashbury in San Francisco?
$1.3 million
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What do the top 5% of house in San Francisco earn?
£800,000 annually
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What caused the lower income families in San Francisco to move out?
gentrification
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What is the case study for a successful urban area?
San Francisco
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What is the case study for a successful rural area?
Itchen Valley
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Why is Itchen Valley become a successful rural place?
It became a commuter town for local urban areas
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How many residents are located in Itchen Valley?
1900
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What is the average house price in Knutsford?
£500,000
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What are the average rental costs in Knutsford?
£900-1,000
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What can a successful rural place do to the working demogrpahic?
Lack of skill sets needed for employment
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Why does Blackpool volunteering occur?
Conflicts that lead to refugee crisis's
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How many Afghan refugees are there in Blackpool?
140
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Why does Knutsford volunteering occur?
Self-governed community groups
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What is an example of a positive volunteering scheme?
Blackpool sea life beach clean up
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What is one way of measuring levels of engament?
Voter turnout
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Why do some places have lower voter turnout?
The current politicians do not represent their needs
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What was the average % of voter turnout in Blackpool in 2015?
59%
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What was the average % of voter turnout in Knutsford in 2015?
70.4%
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What % of the population in Knutsford are over 65?
24%
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What was the turnout for the EU referendum in Blackpool?
65.4%
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What % of people in Blackpool voted to leave in the EU referendum?
67.5%
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What is the point of community groups?
To help shape a place in particular ways
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Who engages in the local area?
Older people
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Who doesn't engage in the local area?
Younger people/ people who don't live there
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How many billion of £ will Heathrow airport 3rd runway create in benefits?
£100 billion
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With the Heathrow airport expansion, how many jobs will it create?
70,000
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What is an environmentalist group who are against the Heathrow airport expansion?
Plane Stupid
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What is the role of national government in regeneration projects?
They put laws in place to help the projects
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What is the role of local government in regeneration projects?
They find out what needs regnerating
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What is the role of the local authroity?
They grant planning permission for areas
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What is a reason as to why there are regeneration strategies in the north but not the south?
To shorten the north south divide
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What are benefits in regeneration projects in relation to employment?
It will increase
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How many homes will be made from the crown estate in Knutsford?
240
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What are 3 examples of hard regeneration? (Cpi)
Capital investment
Physical buildings
Infrastructure
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What are 3 examples of soft regeneration? -( pse)
Planning
Skills
Education
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How many science parks were made in 2015
100
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How many people were employed in science and technology parks?
42,000
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Why are the development of science and technology important to areas?
They attract highly qualified people to an area
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Why is Alderly edge a good commuter town?
It is part of the Golden triangle
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What is the average cost of houses in Alderley Edge?
£1 million
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Where did the London 2012 Olympic regeneration scheme take place?
Clays lane estate
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How many farms in the UK have some form of diversified activity in their farming business
Half
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What is the reason behind the Field to fork sensory exhibition?
To change perception and develop a sense of place
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What does Dunham Massey Altrincham have? (3)
A tearoom maize maze and a farm shop
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What is the future high street fund?
Aims to re-invent the UK's high streets
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What % of shops were vacant in Altrincham?
30%
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If 30% of retail spaces were unoccupied, what is the in a fraction?
1/3
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How many miles away is Altrinchams high street in relation to the Trafford centre?
7
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How much % increase has business had in Altrincham's market hall?
500%
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What is the re-branding of a place?
Investing money into it to improve it
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Why do people re-brand?
To make them re-consider their perspective of that place
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What is re-imaging?
The modelling of an area to create a better image
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What kickstarted the Glasgow regeneration?
European capital culture status to prove that Glasgow is a place worth living
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What was awarded to Scotland in 2004?
The style campaign
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What did Glasgow hold in 2014?
The Commonwealth games
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Where was the regeneration project in Liverpool taking place?
In the docklands
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How many apartments were made in the Liverpool regeneraton project?
2,300
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What was the regeneration project in Liverpool aim to create?
A mixed use space
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Why was Kielder forest park created?
to attract visitation with a range of activities
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What made Kielder forest park successful?
It has so many activities that you have to stay for multiple days
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Why is Brante Country successful?
Novels were created using these as settings and so people go their to visit it
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How many people visit Kielder forest and water park a year?
350,000
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What is a negative of Kielder forest and water park?
Essential services such as the post office and school are at risk of closure
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What is a negative relating to weather for Kielder forest and water park?
In the winter months it sees less business as it is a weather dependant attraction
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How can we measure increasing health?
An increasing life expectancy
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What is a sign of low health?
High rates of chronic liver disease / lung cancer
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What is an example of a strategy of increasing the health of a population
Tax on certain industries who produce unhealthy products eg - tobacco, sugar
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How can we increase educational attainment?
Improvements to opportunities eg, more universities
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How can we improve educational attainment?
Remove barriers to accessing higher education
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What can improvements to education do to an area?
Attract business, create employment, increase income, break the cycle of poverty
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What are some characteristics of a poor environment?
Derelict land, vacant units, high air pollution
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How can we encourage a healthy environment?
Create cycle lanes, more frequent public transport, pedestrians streets
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What is a benefit for increasing healthy environment?
It improves place perception
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How can we build up an indoor environment to become more eco friendly?
Add insulation to the building to preserve more heat
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What happens when we increase the indoor enviroment?
It will increase the disposable income = more money to spend
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What is a positive of an increasing population?
More businesses will locate and the workforce will increase
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What is the case study of increasing populations?
Newcastle Quayside with more and more 20-24 aged people
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How can we increase employment in an area?
Create an enterprise zone (low tax area)
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What will increasing incomes do to all of the employment secotrs?
It will trickle down with a variety of employment
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Where do you normally regenerate in urban areas?
Post industrial land
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What is a stakeholder?
Someone with vested interest who will be affected by regeneration projects
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What are 3 examples of stakeholders in urban regeneration?
Residents
Businesses / developers
Environmentalists
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What is an example of urban regeneration project?
HS2
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What is the purpose of rural regeneration?
To increase visitation
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Who are the 4 stakeholders in rural regeneration?
Local council
Residents
Tourists
Enviromentalists
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What is the case study for rural regeneration?
Eden project
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Why were the stakeholders important as the Eden project was being planned?
They made all the decisions as it was where they lived and it let them feel like they are in control
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What is the coastal example of a rural regeneration?
Giants cuaseway
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What were they trying to build next to the giants cuaseway?
A golf course
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Why was the golf course that was going to be built next to the giants causeway fail?
It interrupted too many natural landscapes
