GCSE GEOGRAPHY |TERM 2 / YR11 : Birmingham Flashcards
Redevelopment Project - facts and figures, jobs, impacts (negative)
Bullring:
- cost over 3 million- money could have been funded into developing more poverty ridden parts of birmingham, or could have been re invested into housing, school, ect.
- Is a factor for migration since it makes the city seem of wealth and abundance therefore more people will migrate- with a housing crisis and lack of jobs, this is not beneficial.
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Redevelopment Project - facts and figures, jobs, impacts (positive)
The bullring:
- was once a corn market transformed
- costed 500 million
- created 8000+ jobs
- Biggested shopping center in uk
- grosses over 1 million annually
Site and Location
International Importance
Port, brings in 3 billion, common wealth held ther.
Diversity and migration
High rates of migration. and national migration because of oppertunity and jobs, birmingham takes in high rates of asylum seekers.
The 6/7 areas - characteristics/locations