1+ facts/stats per case study (Regeneration) Flashcards
Bronte Country
£210,000 investment in buses to link Worth Valley with the outdoor pursuit and cultural attractions
Kielder, Northumberland
Contributed £706 million to the local economy
Bournemouth
Finance TNCs include JP Morgan and Liverpool Victoria
£100m redevelopment plan for bournemouth uni campuses
East London
38.2% of population from 20-40 years old
HS2
Cost: £88 billion spread out
M4 corridor
Commuter Villages linked: Berkshire, Slough
Tech institutes linked: Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft
San Francisco
Dot-com businesses include: Dropbox, Twitter, Google, UBER
Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana (The Rust Belt)
Decline in Michigan: Decline in automobile industry in 1950s
Decline in Gary, Indiana: overseas competitiveness in the steel industry (1960). Layed off many steel workers in the Gary area
Middlesborough
20,000 left since 1990
Powys
Farming diversification programme: £1.27m invested to help farming families boost income with new businesses
namely Bryan Derw Farm
Cornwall
Eden project
Combined Universities of Cornwall (Exeter, Plymouth, Falmouth Unis & Cornwall, Truro & Penwith College)
Gross Value Added tanked by £100,000 in 2020 Q2
Cumulative causation model applies to which 2 case studies?
San Francisco
Middlesborough
Gary, Indiana
Median household income: $29,517
Population: 75,000 approx
Violent crime rate: 5.40 per 1,000 people
Controversial Regen strategies (+ why they’re controversial)
- HS2 (Expensive + unnecessary)
- YPFG in Birmingham regen (Seen as Tokenism -> disingenuous. Lacks representation)
- Bournemouth & Cornwall (Studentification: new unruly demographic)
Local community-led schemes
Coin Street (London)
- Gave near full citizen control
Phoenix Cinema (Oban, Scotland)
- Won the rural enterprise of the year award (2017)
YPFG (Birmingham)
- Tokenism
