fieldwork - taunton town centre Flashcards
what is the title of the fieldwork?
Exploring the success of the regeneration in Taunton Town centre
where is Taunton
- Somerset - southwest of the uk
benefits of Tauntons location
- public toilets and car park located near area
- had footpaths and safe crossings
- recently undergone regerneration = approppiate for are theory
name 3 risks and ways to prevent them :
- slipping/tripping - wear suitable shoes, follow footpaths, dont run
- being runover - use crossings, follow footpaths
- getting lost - plan route, remin in groups [at least of 3]
what sampling method was used and why?
stratfied
- allowed us to identify sites which had undergone regeneration
- not possible to evaluate whole of Taunton in a day
explain the quantative method used?
- measuered the enviromental quality w a score sheet that inclused 6 elements e.g green space, litter, noise pollution
- w a licket scale between -5 & 5
- at each site we would gove a score for each factor
= max was 30 - highest score = best enviromental quality
explain a qualitive method you did?
EPITOME words
- at each site we each wrote down 3 words to decribe the area
- as a group we then created a ‘wordle’ - word bubble = to gather a general feeling about the area
- which we could then comppare to other years or locals opinions
how did we present are data?
- RADAR DIAGRAMS
- present enviromental quality
- ## allowed us to visually compare sites
how accurate were the results ?
- our site was large and we werent able to asess everywehere which may pf lead to in acurate results
- time of day and season = will also impact are results
- enviromental quality score was subjective
- it was sunny day so there were less cars out and there was less traffic as we went after rush hour
how reliable are the results
- unsure what a ‘typical’ day is as we only collected data one 1 day
- roadworks present at one site which could of impacted enviromental scores
- subjective data
- end of our data collection was at the end of a school day [may of added noise and enviromental scores]
improvments?
- data was very subjective = have more ppl asses reduces bias
- pin poiny exact sites rather than big areas
- return at other times of year
geographical theory?
regeneration
- overall enviromental, social, economic improvements of an area
hypothsis
regenerated areas = higher EN quality, stronger economy & socailly sucessfull
results
- overall regerneration lead to positive EN scores
= enviromently sucessfull - Station Boulavard = had the lowest EN quality maybe due to its busy nature = town centre [gentrificatyion also occured here]
- impact of plannign was evident = regenerated areas across the city [pockets of expensive housing & higher QOL factors from the regeneration] [rather than jsut on the outskirts]
what are the 3 enquiry questions?
areas that have regenrated will have..
1. a higher enviromental qualitty
2. stronger economy
3. socially sucessful
secondary data?
- google maps was used to plan routes & indentify sites [to research]
- zoopla was used to see the chnage in house prices before & after regeneration [see if they had inc & gentrifaction occurered
- census data = data shine website to compare regenerated areas to non regernerates areas
analysis
- compared are enviromental quality results to previous groups to take into account any anomlies & increase the sample size
GIS
-used to locate total envirometnal quality scores on map [proportional symbols]
- visually see the enviromental change across the regernated areas
= asses which had the greatest sucess
conclusion
we can conclude:
- areas where regerneration occured = postive enviromental quality
- particaly in Sommerset Sqaure and Castle Green
- near Station Boulevard [least effective place of regeneration evidence of gentrification e.g rising house prices etc
evaluation
- our conclusions were valid:
- we used stratified sampling to reduce bias
- for the EQ results to minimise subjectivty we compared w prior results we were able to inc reliabilty
- secondary data helped us support our conclusion = more reliable
