4.2 Flashcards
What are the reasons for change?
Physical factors
Accessibility and conectedness
Historical development
Globalisation
How have physical factors caused change?
- Costal erosion
- Increasing flood risk
- Concern about climate change
How has historical development caused change?
- The primary historic functions of place are often no longer important
- changes in residents needs and priorities
- repurposing of historic buildings
How has globalisation caused change?
- Deindustrialisation in the UK as manufacturing moves to cheaper places
- Migration into the UK
- Changes to retail (E-commerce)
How has accessibility and connectedness caused change?
- Developing motorway and railway networks
- Increased migration
- Access to fibre-optic broadband
What is the role of local and national planning in bringing change?
- National government policies to increase housing, improve accessibilty and connectedness
- National government polices to conserve culture or environmentally important places
- Local planning grants or refuses permission for changes to places
What ways can change be measured?
- Employment trends
- Demographic changes
- Land use changes
- Levels of deprivation
What measures are used to show employment trends?
- ONS labour force survey
- Gross household disposable income
What measures can be used to show demographic changes?
- Census data
- ONS: neighbourhood statistics
What measures can be used to show landuse change?
- Ordinance survey maps
- Google maps
What measures can be used to show levels of deprivation?
IMD
CDRC maps
Crime data
Define the Index of Multiple Deprivation
The IMD is a measure of the extent of deprivation in England
-37 different indicators are collected and put inot 7 different domains
What are the domains of the IMD?
- Income
- Education
- Employment
- Health
- Crime
- Barriers to hosuing and services
- Living environment
