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where is Cardiff ?

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  • capital of Wales
  • found in South Wales
  • western side of Great Britain
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what were your hypothesis about Cardiff ?

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  • the areas where a lot of money has been spent on redevelopment will attract the most amount of people
  • these areas will be very sightly and nicer looking areas
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why did you chose those hypothesis ?

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it is easy to see the development of the Bay and find out if the hypothesis is correct

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what secondary data did you use ?

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2011 census data

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why did you use that data ?

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to show us the number of people living in Cardiff at the time and the ethnic diversity of the population

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what were the limitations to the secondary data ?

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it was out of date

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how did we collect the primary data land use ?

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  • land use
  • pedestrian count
  • environmental quality survey
  • questionnaire
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how did we collect the primary data pedestrian count and the questionnaire ?

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  • counted number of people in an area

- asked random people some set questions

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how did we collect the primary data environmental quality survey ?

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recorded the quality of the environment at each point where we stop

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how did we collect the primary data land use ?

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  • had a list of descriptions of categories of land use

- picked the category of landuse according to the list and what we saw the area contained

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which data was quantitative ?

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  • landuse survey

- environmental survey

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12
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which data was qualitative ?

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  • questionnaires

- photos

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what were the advantages and disadvantages of the land use data we collected ?

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+ could identify what the land was being used for

- only our point of view

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what were the advantages and disadvantages of the pedestrian count data we collected ?

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+ could see how many people were there at that time

- was only there for one day so cannot calculate an average for the other days

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what were the advantages and disadvantages of the environmental quality survey we collected ?

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+ could identify how good the environmental quality is

- only our point of view

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what were the advantages and disadvantages of the questionnaire data we collected ?

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+ was speaking to people who actually live and work in Cardiff
- some of the people were bias

17
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how many sites did we visit and why ?

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5 to see the difference in each site

18
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what did we use random sampling for ?

A

the people we were going to talk to

19
Q

how did the environmental quality and landuse change across town ?

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site 2 - Rhondda Heritage Park has the least amount of landuses whereas site 4 - Mermaid Bay had the most amount of landuses

20
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did this change match what we expected ?

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yes because we expected that the areas that have has the most recent development would be used the most

21
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what did you conclude in Cardiff Bay ?

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  • that regeneration has improved this area
  • the data we have got and the wordle have showed us that people’s opinions on Cardiff Bay are now very positive
  • main landuses are restaurants and shops which are easily accessible due to the ease of parking
  • negative correlation on a scatter graph we made showing that more pedestrians reduce the quality of the environment
22
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what were the risks and how did we overcome them ?

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  • water - stay behind barriers
  • strangers - stay in groups
  • traffic - use traffic lights to cross road safely
  • getting lost - stay in groups and listen to instructions
23
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what are the names of the 5 sites we visited ?

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1 - Llanwern Steelworks
2 - Rhonda Heritage Park
3 - Maerdy
4 - Cardiff CBD
5 - Cardiff Bay
24
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what is some key information about Llanwern Steelworks ?

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  • low density of building