4A.2

Question 1

Functions

Answer 1

The role a place plays for its community and surroundings. Larger places often provide regional, national, or global functions. They can grow disappear, and change overtime.

Question 2

Characteristics

Answer 2

The physical and human aspects that help distinguish one place from another.

Question 3

Gentrification

Answer 3

Renewal, renovation, or rebuilding of older and deteriorating buildings in order to create more up-market places for middle-class residents to live, often displacing poorer residents.

Question 4

Studentification

Answer 4

Students cluster in certain areas of larger towns and cities in places offering higher eduction provisions.

Question 5

Why do places change?

Answer 5

Transport, proximity to other cities, demand for housing, affluence, attractiveness, government schemes (HS2), regional airports.

Question 6

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) - how is it measured.

Answer 6

7 domains ranked in importance - income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing and services, living environment.