birmingham

Question 1

what is the UK city name of are case study?

Answer 1

birmingham

Question 2

name 2 facts about size and name of brum?

Answer 2

-city of 1000 trades
-the Uk’s second largest city

Question 3

name 2 regional oppurtunities

Answer 3

-50,000 job oppurtunities
-6 michilan star reasturants

Question 4

name 4 international oppurtunities

Answer 4

-banking industries (HSB)
-international airport(goes to around 140 countries)
-commenwealth games
ITS - integrated train system

Question 5

name 4 national opps

Answer 5

-population growth 12% in 11 years (40% of population under 25)
-redeveloped city centre(bull ring & grand central)
-canals-trade
-5 universities

Question 6

name 2 cultural hot spots

Answer 6

chinatown & balti triangle

Question 7

how many vistors does the NEC get each year?

Answer 7

3 million

Question 8

how many tourists did the commenwealth bring & what were the opps from this?

Answer 8

over 1 million tourists - income for accomidation
-job oppurtuinites
-made Bham more well kown and a place to visit

Question 9

give 3 pull factors of bham: (good standard of living)

Answer 9

-good health care and life evxpectancy
-5 unis
-job oppurtunities

Question 10

give 2 pull factors to do with population-

Answer 10

-young vibrant night life 40% of population is under 25
-7,000 international migrants (3/4 of them are between 19-29 = uni )

Question 11

what is studentification?
note - kind of bad thing

Answer 11

-the affects of having a young population/uni students
e.g loud night life, renting home —-> litter everywhere, poorly maintained, family homes —–> student accomidation leads to deprivation

Question 12

name 3 econimic oppurtunities?

Answer 12

-34 million people use the station each year(transport
-200 + restaurants and which have 25 diff cuisenes(cultural mix)
-intelligent transport systems for trade and employment

Question 13

name 2 social job oppurtunities

Answer 13

• rerail bullring(140+ shops) &grand central - employment/cultural festivals
  -hippodrome & NEC (3 million vistors a year)

Question 14

name 2 enviromental opps=

Answer 14

-over 500 parks
-Botanical gardens(tourism, job oppurtunities

Question 15

give 2 enviromental challenges in bham-

Answer 15

-decrease in greenfield sites as the housing demand is increasing(build on farms/greenland) in 2015 89,000 new houses needed to be built
-waste disposal = in 2015 only 30% of waste was recyled

Question 16

explain the challenge with housing

Answer 16

INEQUAILTY of housing
-money etc
17,000 people in bham are homeless and 13,000 in temporary council housing

Question 17

what is urban deprivation?

Answer 17

places with a low standard of living

Question 18

how is urban deprivation a challenge? (social/economic)

Answer 18

in these areas it leads to: vandalism, poor quality housing, derelict homes and lots of waste

Question 19

explain the health inequality- —->challenge
(social/economic)

Answer 19

1there is a 6 year life expectancy difference between the most and least deprived areas
-in deprived areas they are 3x more likely to die from preventable diseases

Question 20

explain the education inequality —> challenge
(social/economic)

Answer 20

-in deprived areas there is 5% more people who aren’t qualified then the national average
-1.3 years behind mentally in deprived areas

Question 21

what has the challenge of industrialization lead to?

Answer 21

unemployment

Question 22

what is a brownfield site?

Answer 22

land/site which has previously been built on

Question 23

give 4 negatives of brownfield sites

Answer 23

-planning laws
-can be more expensive
-not aesthetic
-not a could image(previous buisneses closing down there etc.)

Question 24

give 3 positives of brownfields?

Answer 24

-infastructure alr there - can reduce costs
—> easily accesible
—-> good trade
- restricts urbanisation
-renewable/sustainable

Question 25

what is dereliction?

Answer 25

deteriation of inner city caused by a lack of investment/maintenance
-lack of manafacturing-dereliction

Question 26

name 5 reasons for derlecition x

Answer 26

• de-industrializing
  -online shopping/competion
  -out sourcing (secondary jobs sent abroad -manufacturing jobs)
  -urban—>rural migration
  -decline in manufacturing

Question 27

what is a greenfield site?

Answer 27

a site which has not been built on before

Question 28

give 4 postives of greenfields sites-

Answer 28

-blank canvas
-new development
-cheaper land
-near to suburbs(has customers and employees)

Question 29

name 2 advantages of greenfield sites=

Answer 29

-has land to expand
-positive image - sustainable

Question 30

name 2 negatives of greenfield sites=

Answer 30

-new source of traffic congestion —-> motorways & junctions
-no infrastructure

Question 31

give 3 disadvantages of greenfield sites=

Answer 31

-planning restriction
-pollution
-increases urbanization/urban sprawl

Question 32

what does the Aston pride project solve?

Answer 32

urban deprivation in Birmingham - measured by the index mutiple deprivaitation

Question 33

name 2 economic development aston pride did?

Answer 33

-attracting 10 new businesses - secured £5 million in investments - job opps
-500 new affordable houses were built

Question 34

state 2 enviromental developments from the Aston Pride project

Answer 34

-planted 10,000 new trees
-2 new parks

Question 35

state 2 social developments from the Aston Pride project

Answer 35

• the new aston community health centre-free health care & advice
  -employment bus , alr made 1205 Aston residents find work

Question 36

in terms of the IDM which of the 7 factors did the Aston Pride project not really target?

Answer 36

-education and crime