Changing places Q+A

Question 1

Suggest 2 challenges that could arise in the areas where the percentage of second homes is over 25%.

Answer 1

• decline in local services as holiday home owners don’t support local economy all year round
• increase in house prices +taking properties away from locals, meaning young people cannot stay in the area they grew up in as places become too expensive

Question 2

Assess the importance of technology in the decline of primary employment in rural areas.

Answer 2

• One popular reason for decline is mechanisation and increased ease of importing goods
• However, government strategy, depletion of resources, cheap imports, social change also have a role

Question 3

Examine the impacts of changes to retail patterns on people’s lives.

Answer 3

positive
- internet shopping provides jobs for delivery drivers
- it makes customers lives easier and have access to higher variation
- can have positive environemental impacts (less cars on the road)
- lowering prices due to competition

negative
- close in high street shops, loss of jobs
- loss of community, towns become derelict and rundown
- less choice due to shop closures

Question 4

How can olympic venues regenerate east London?

Answer 4

• people coming to watch sport
• athletes village attracting sports proffesionals, who could be high income
  -range of services built to support people
• new jobs created that supports local community
• athletes village can be used as accomodation

Question 5

Examine some challenges faced by an urban place in which is over-heating.

Answer 5

LONDON
- housing problem, increased rent and house prices (the most severe problem)
- transport and infrastructure
- deprivation of other places, causing brain drain
- building more services takes up more greenland

Question 6

Examine the consequences of attempts to rebrand one or more named rural areas.

Answer 6

Port Isaac, Cornwall
- Rebranding through the media, Doc Martin was filmed there

Positives
- improved village appearence
- increasing visitor numbers by 27% to Cornwall
- the programme is worth millions to the economy

Negatives
- house prices have quadrupled
-road traffic and closures during filming has caused problems for residents
- Doc M royalties could have gone to the local school and back to the community instead

Question 7

Examine the view that the positive social changes associated with gentrification outweigh the negative social changes.

Answer 7

Positive social changes
- affluent residents return
- declining surfaces are being revived
- urban areas are becoming renovated
- more pleasant environment to work and live

Negative
- increasing division for pre-existing communities
- house prices are increasing rapidly

Question 8

Examine the locational factors that encourage the growth of clusters of the quaternary industry.

Answer 8

• universities and access to educated people
• pre-established infrastructure and services
• access to government support through local enterprise zones
• planning regulations approval

TECHCITY LONDON
*idea of interdependence between factors