Case Studies Flashcards
Broadband in Cornwall
By 2016, 95% of Cornwall had access to fibre broadband.
£132 million from the EU and BT.
Encourages knowledge economy - 2000 new jobs.
£20 million per year.
Watergate Bay
Extreme water sports and hotel.
Open all year round and employs 50-60 people.
‘Fifteen’ - Jamies Oliver’s restaurant – fifteen 16-24 year old from disadvantaged backgrounds are selected from training each year.
Wave hub
Wave-power research project situated 16 km off Cornwall’s north coast.
£42 million to build – with funding from the SWRDA, the EU and the UK government.
Should have earned £76 million over 25 years for Cornwall’s economy and created 170 jobs.
Combined universities
Develops the knowledge economy.
Helps its graduates to set up their own businesses or secure jobs in knowledge-based companies in Cornwall – trying to cut the ‘Cornish brain drain’.
The ‘student economy’ in Falmouth – healthy property rental market and a thriving evening economy of bars and restaurants.
Grampound
Working village of 800 people in mid-Cornwall.
New community shop funded by local households, the Prince’s Countryside Fund and the Parish Council.
Range of activites suitable for the community.
High levels of community engagement.
CATCH
Aims to create suburbs with a mixture of owned and social housing.
10,000 new jobs.
Job creation and training for local people.
New schools, library, children’s play area, health and community centre.
Newquay Aerohub
Partnership between Cornwall Council and private-sector investors – aiming to begin the process of diversifying Cornwall’s economy away from its dependence on tourism.
Business Park’s ‘brand’ is its location – aims to attract investment for an aviation and aerospace ‘hub’.
Hoped that 700 high-value, skilled permanent jobs would be generated there in the first year – but by the end of 2015, only 450 jobs had been created and few of these were ‘new’ jobs.
Eden Project
2 plant conservatories - education centre about sustainable living - hostel for residential groups.
Generated £1.1 billion for the Cornish economy.
Employed 650 people directly - supported 3000 related jobs.
Encouraged investment to help regenerate St Austell town centre.
London’s East End
Closure of the Docklands caused 12,000 job losses.
Canary Wharf – transformation of land use and employment – high-rise office buildings.
Accessibility and connectedness – extending Jubilee Line, DLR, London City Airport & new roads.
The older residents have been replaced by a much younger generation.
Increase housing supply – not social housing, but of housing where the docks used to be.
Sydney
Over 1.5 million (30%) of Sydney’s residents were born overseas.
Adult salaries in 2015 averaged AU$82,000 a year (£40,000) – world’s 7th highest.
Over 450,000 businesses – 2/3 of regional headquarters of global TNCs.
Large proportion of high-income jobs in ‘knowledge economy’.
With overseas-owned banks and TNCs, it’s the leading financial centre for the Asia-Pacific region.
Beattyville
Decline in coal industry.
Median annual household income was $12 000 (£8000).
Half of its families lived below the poverty line.
One third of teenagers left high school without graduating – only 5% of residents had college degrees.
Men’s life expectancy was eight years below the US average, at 68.3 years.
HS2
Phase 1 = high-speed link (travelling at up to 400 km per hour) between London Euston and Birmingham Curzon Street – Phase 2 = lead north-west to Manchester and north-east to Leeds.
Improved journey times between major cities.
60 000 construction jobs will be created.
No intermediate stations – communities along the route will not gain from it.
Glasgow
Cheaper oversea competition – decline in ship building, engineering, steel and coal industries.
European Capital of Culture in 1990, UK’s City of Architecture and Design in 1999 and hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
Investment from private property developers has been encouraged to build homes along the Clyde.
BBC Headquarters for Scotland’ TV and radio broadcasting opened in 2007.
Plymouth
Spending cuts, effected by WW2, reduced shipyard size, remote – difficult to attract investment.
Drake circus – shopping complex in the city centre – attracts people – creates jobs.
Cruise terminal – attracts international tourists.
Science Park – 70 businesses employing 800 people – expands knowledge economy.
Leisure and sport partnership – new stadium complex – including a cinema, hotel and ice rink.
Barking and Dagenham
Ford employed 40,000 people – closed in 2002.
London’s highest adult unemployment rate (9.8% of working-age adults).
Barking Riverside & Gascoigne Estate – created new housing.
Barking Town Centre & Beam Park – generated new jobs (commercial & retail).
Dagenham Dock – sustainable business area.
Olympic Park
7,000 temporary jobs, 5,000 construction jobs – reducing unemployment.
New housing built & Olympic village created into 3,000 flats (½ low cost).
4,000 trees & 74,000 plants – increase biodiversity & absorb more carbon dioxide.
Westfield shopping centre and Olympic stadium attracts tourists.
380 companies, employing 11,000 people were relocated and people forced out of their homes.
Nepal
7.8 magnitude earthquake in April 2015.
Epicentre - 80 km northwest of Kathmandu.
Killed a total of 8633, injured 21,000 – and 3 million people being made homeless.
Loma Prieta
17 Oct. 1989, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake near San Francisco – 67 deaths.
Marina District suffered some of the worst of the damage.
Part of the 2-level Cyprus freeway collapsed.
Christchurch - New Zealand
The 2011 magnitude 6.3 aftershock that caused more damage & loss of life than the initial 2010 earthquake.
2010 – centred in a rural area.
2011 – shallow focus, closer to city centre.
Eyjafjallajökull - Iceland
2010 – volcanic eruption.
100,000 commercial flights were cancelled.
The European economy lost US$5 billion.
Kenya – dumped tonnes of fresh vegetables & flowers – costing US$1.3 million a day.
