How do external agencies make attempt to influence or creat specific place meanings and thereby shape the actions and behaviours of individuals, groups and businesses. CASE STUDY

Question 1

London Docklands

Answer 1

NOTES ON SPITALFIELDS AND BANGLATOWN

Question 2

Stratford background

Answer 2

Stratford was deindustrialised in the late 20th cenury and as a result was one of the most deprived communities in the UK.

The citys regeneration although helped to rebuid the area.

Question 3

Stratford regeneration

Answer 3

The Uk won a succesful bid over Paris and therefore the government had to change stratford in order for it to be used for the Olympic games.
Stratford was also chosen for the 500-acre Olympic Park as the area already had existing waste and industrial land. This land would be cleaned up and improved before construction. This made it an ideal location for putting up the park, especially since it was located only seven minutes from Central London.
- More than £9 billion of investment was brought to East London

Question 4

Benefits of the regenration

Answer 4

• The conversion of the Olympic Village Polyclinic into a lifelong learning centre for the East London Community. This would include a nursery and primary and secondary schools.
• The organiser proposed that 3,000 new permanent jobs would be created by this event.
• The Athlete’s Village has been made into a housing estate, now called the East Village. Currently, about 40% of the 2,818 houses will be affordable. Eventually, some 8,000 people will be able to live in the 5 new neighbourhoods created from the Olympic Parkland.
• The Athlete’s Village has been made into a housing estate, now called the East Village. Currently, about 40% of the 2,818 houses will be affordable. Eventually, some 8,000 people will be able to live in the 5 new neighbourhoods created from the Olympic Parkland.
• Stratford is now the 2nd most connected part of London, after King’s Cross.

Question 5

Costs of regeneration in stratford

Answer 5

• Affordable housing is still unaffordable for the poorest people in Newham. This is because Stratford is now a more affluent area, increasing the cost of living.
• 450 Housing Association flats, which is where the poorer people lived, were torn down.
• 380 existing businesses had to move.
• Approximately 9000 jobs were lost or moved.
• Property prices, for both renting and buying, went up.
• Just 13,000 homes have been built on and around the Olympic site. Of these, only 11% are genuinely affordable to people on average local incomes

Question 6

Hull

Answer 6

• Hull UK City of Culture 2017 was a designation given to the city of Kingston upon Hull, England, between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2020 by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
• This means that it gains funding to improve its infastructure, art faciltiies and will host several culture events.
• This initiatve is held every 4 years, and attempts to highlight one location in the UK, promoting arts and cultures as means of celebration and regeneration.
• “challenged the worst images of the city”
• More than 5.3 million people, including more than 90% of Hull’s residents, attended at least one of the 2800 City of Culture events and activities during 2017.
• Studies have shown that this is directly responsbile for nearly 100 million of invesment in the city, and a 9.7% increase in toursim.

Question 7

Regeneration of Manchester

Answer 7

Following 1996 IRA bombing, enormous spaces for redevelopment were left, bypassing the usual difficulty of gaining large numbers of property owner consent

Spinningfields redeveloped as ‘Canary Wharf of the North’
Piccadilly Gardens opened in 2002, after six years of first phase regeneration
Following 2002 Commonwealth Games, young professionals and students began moving there in large numbers

Question 8

Rebranding of Liverpool

Answer 8

‘Capital of Culture’ in 2008 by EU

• Redevelopment of the Albert Dock for tourism in mid-1980s
• 1990 rebranded as a city of culture by a rebranding as a cultural heartland rather than an industrial hub
• UNESCO World Heritage site status 2004 after city council nominate Liverpool for the award
• Liverpool Culture Company created by city council who organised cultural events in the run-up to 2008