Bristol Flashcards
Bristols environmental Challenges: dereliction
E.g stokes croft
- deindustrialization as companies moved out, port moved so no need for warehouses
What’s being done: Low rent so small community shops can exist there
Bristols social challenges: filwood
Filwood: (inner city-where there has been deindustrialisation)
- 50% House Owner occupied
- 36% get A*-C
- 78 life expectancy
- 1/3 if 16-24 year olds are unemployed
- > 1300 crimes a year
Natural increase definition
Births minus deaths
Bristols location
SW, on seven estuary, 90 mins west of London on M4.
- largest port exports to USA/ West Africa/ South East Asia
- close to Welsh coal
Importance of Bristol
UK:
- exports/Imports
- 2 universities
- festivals/art/music
Worldwide:
- airport connections
- M4 access
- 70000 cars imported a years
Migration internal
- 4000 people a year
- cheaper living
- attraction to high-tech jobs
- working age move in-> elderly move out
- more working age means more children and pressure on education/ housing
Migration international
- 50% growth from international migrants
- high-tech jobs with international companies
- hard working, fills a skill
- pressure on housing
Environmental opportunities: urban greening
1/3 of city is open space
8 nature reserves
30% of city covered in trees by 2026
Economic opportunities : integrated transport system
57% walk / cycle to work
175 new buses to improve connections
Electrification of the railway line to London- greener and more reliable
The rapid transit network- 3 bus routes linking railway station to park and ride sights
Economic opportunities : aerospace industries
- Rolls-Royce + airbus
- ministry of defence employs 10,000 in military facilities
Economic opportunities : high tech industries
50 micro- electronic businesses
£40 million invested in WiFi
Social opportunities : entertainment
Harbour side- bars, clubs, restaurants
Annual festival has 300000 visitors
Social opportunities : shopping
Broadmead centre closed down
Replaced in 2008 at a cost of £500 mil
By Cabot circus + 250 flats
Social: leisure, sport
2x football, 1x rugby, rovers new stadium
Social: cultural mix, event venues
- Hippodrome + former tobacco warehouse are main cultural event venues
Bristols environmental Challenges: urban sprawl
- pressure to expand and build on greenfield sites
Impacts of urban sprawl:
- lack of open space
- congestion
- pollution
- creates commuter settlements
Reducing:
- by 2026 over 30,000 new homes are planned on brownfield land
- high-density on brownfield land, 210 houses per Hector compared to on greenfield land, only 60
Bristols environmental Challenges: waste disposal
-1/2 million tonnes a year
Aiming to increase recycling to 50% of waste, reducing the amount of waste generated per household by 15%
Bristols social challenges: Stoke bishop
Stoke bishop: (suburbs)
- 81% houses owner occupied
- 94% get A*-C
- 83 life expectancy
- <3% are unemployed
- > 300 crimes a year
And example of an urban regeneration project (temple quarter)
Temple quarter:
Why?
- Deindustrialisation
- Glasswork, railway yards, ironworks
- the area had polluted land. Terraced housing is state of despair and small units
Features:
- 240000 m2 of new buildings
- train track improved (electrification Will shorten the rail journey time to London)
- Bristol arena
- New bridge across the river Avon to the site of the former diesel depot, this gives access to the new Bristol arena
Bristols environmental Challenges: atmospheric pollution
- main cause are vehicle emissions
- 200 die prematurely
