Birmingham Flashcards
Big city plan
Birminghams regeneration plan
-50,000 new jobs
-£2.1 billion to the economy each year
-expanding the city core by 25%
Inequality
Gaps between the rich and the poor
Urban sprawl
The expansion of citys
Green belt
An area of green land around city’s where they can’t build on
DTM
Demographic transition model
Birth rate
The number of children born per 1000 people
Colonialism
HIC’S taking over countries
What is the North south divide?
The uk is split into the north and south where the south is rich and the north is poor causing inequality which makes life expectancy drop further North
What are the 5 stages of the DTM?
Stage 1- high birth rate/ high death rate (no healthcare lots of diseases)
Stage 2-death rate falls/ birth rate remain (medicine gets better less diseases)
Stage 3-death rate remains/ birth rate falls (woman gain rights and go to university and get jobs so less become pregnant)
Stage 5- death rate is higher than birth rate/ population falls (lifestyle kills us)
What is a brownfield site
Land previously used for industry which has fallen into decay
What is dereliction
Land and buildings that have fallen into disuse
What is urban greening
The process of creating and maintaining green space in urban areas
What is the population of Birmingham
1.1 million
Greenfield site
An undeveloped piece of land with proposed first time development
Grand central
-handle 300,000 people a day on new street station
-the shopping centre created 1000 permanent jobs
-costed £600million
-used brownfield site
Redeveloped in 2015
