Key Terms-Regenerating Places Flashcards
Abandoned Land
Spaces in urban areas that were previously used for industry, now derelict and awaiting regeneration. Could also be applied to rural areas where farming is no longer taking place.
Accessibility
How easy it is to travel or communicate with a place. Distance and transport routes to other places are usually the most important factors.
Administrative centre
Places, usually larger towns or cities, that make decisions about how to organise infrastructure and economic activity in the surrounding area.
Built Environment
An urban are with buildings and infrastructure, such as roads and railways.
Commercial
Places, usually towns or cities where the major economic activity is trade, shopping or financial services.
Commuter Village
A rural settlement close to a large city that has become home for many people working in the urban area. They journey to and from the city on a daily basis, usually by road or train.
Composite indicator
A development indicator, which measures more than one variable e.g. The wellbeing index.
Connectedness
A measure of how well connected different people are through communication link e.g. broadband, road, rail.
Crime Rate
The amount or level of crime in an area.
Cultural Diffusion
The spread of cultural ideas and way of life.
Cultural Diversity
The number or range of different population groups with different lifestyles in a place, usually linked to ethnicity but to also socio-economic groups or age groups.
Cultural Enrichment
The addition of ideas, actions and meanings that are a result of new people to an area.
Cultural Erosion
The loss or dilution of a specific culture due to cultural diffusion
Culture
The way of life, especially the general customs and belief of a particular group of people at a particular time
Deindustrialisation
The mass closure of industries in regions traditionally associated with secondary industrial production, also features high employment levels. Partly due to the global shift in production.
Demographic Change
Changes in the population characteristics of a place. This could be numbers of people or types of people.
Demographic Characteristics
Data about a group of people, such as their age, gender or income.
Demographics
The study of a population and population change.
Depopulation
A significant and sustained decline in the population size of a region or a country.
Deprivation
When people things they would expect to have in the 21st Century such as jobs, a certain level of income, affordable housing, access to services such as schools and healthcare.
Deregulation
The process of reducing or removing rules governing economic activity in a country with the aim of encouraging investment.
Derelict Land
Previously used land in cities that has fallen into disrepair because buildings have closed and no one is there to maintain them.
Development
Usually considered as economic growth leading to an improvement in the standard of living. Development can be measured in other ways, such as freedom, equality or the well-being of the natural environment.
Diaspora
The movement of a population away from their homeland.
Diversification
In times of low far income, farmers seek incomes such as B&B, wind turbines, off roading trails and conversion of farm buildings to offices or workshops. It may also link to the political decision by the EU to encourage farmers to find alternative business uses other than growing surplus food.
Diversity
The degree of variation within a population e.g age, ethnicity and culture.
Economic Sector
A way to group jobs that have a similar purpose.
Economies
The amount of money being transferred between different players leading to wealth creation.
Engagement
The decision my individual members of the public to get involved in tackling political issues e.g. through volunteering, running for election.
Environment Impact Assessment
It’s part of the planning stage all large projects must carry out a study of what the likely impacts will be of the project. A focus is often on the natural environment to ensure that it remains sustainable but can also include the impacts on people. (social, economic and environment.)
Environmental Quality
The condition and attractiveness of the surroundings within which people live. This includes birth the natural and the built environments- open space and levels of air, water and land pollution.
Ethnicity
The cultural background of a particular group of people, often based on religion or country of origin.
Ethnic Composition
Information about the tonic characteristics of a group of people
Fertility Rate
The number of children born to a woman in her lifetime.
Gated Community
Neighbourhoods of towns or cities where houses are designed with gates and fences to improve privacy or safety.
Gentrification
Renewal, renovation or rebuilding of older and deteriorating buildings in order to create more upmarket places for middle class residents to live, often displacing poorer residents.
Governance
How a place or an area is managed by the different levels of government.
Idyll
Used to describe a place that maximised the positives of a living space. It is often used in relation to rural areas with low pollution levels and plenty of green open space, unspoilt natural area, traditional way of life and jobs.
Industrialisation
The rapid growth of secondary industries such as factories, including the creation of secondary sector jobs. In the UK, this was mostly in the 19th Century as known as the industrial revolution, but there was also industrial growth in the 1960s.
Inequality
Differences in income and wealth, and well-being, between individuals, groups within a community or communities within a society.
Infrastructure Investment
When money is spent by the government on projects to connect major towns and cities e.g. HS2
Innovation
A new idea, more effective invention or process within a industry, service or community.
Internal Migration
The movement of people from one country to another, where the move is a change of permanent residence for at least 1 year.
Life Cycle Stage
Each Person experiences various stages during their lifetime, such as living with their parents, a young married couple. At each stage the opinions and needs of the person change.
Life Expectancy
The average number of years an individual is likely to live from birth.
Lived Experience
During a persons lifetime they will have different experiences, depending on their family situation, family culture, education experiences, life cycle and personal interests. These affect their judgement about places and situations and lead to their perceptions, views and opinions.
Media
The various ways of presenting information to people, including printed materials such as journals and magazines, broadcast through radio and television or online newspapers and blogs.
Migration
The movement of people from one place to another for at least one year with the intentions of settling permanently in the new location.
Mortality Rate
The number of deaths caused per thousand people due to a specific cause of death or age group, such as cancer mortality or child mortality.
Multicultural
The existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic are such as a country or a city.
Perception
The view of a place or issue based on feelings and experience; a qualitative judgement.
Planning
The decision making process of a national, regional or local body ( government, county council, local authority or planning department.) which decided where to locate things like new houses and where to regenerate, redevelop or renew.
Policy Decision
Significant decisions made by a government in the national interest, perhaps when local interests are conflicting.
Political Engagement
The willingness and ability of people to get involved in voting for governments or joining pressure groups that are trying to bring about change.
Political engagement
The willingness and ability of people to get involved in voting for governments or joining pressure groups to bring about change.
Population Density
The number of people living within an area, usually measured per square kilometre. Core and urban area have higher population densities, while peripheral and rural areas have lower population densities.
Population Growth
The increase in the number of people living within a defined area or place, usually given as a percentage per year.
Population Structure
The number of people within each age group by gender. It is usually shown in a bar graph known as a population pyramid.
Post-production
Developing a place after decline, often through a marketing strategy to re-image the place so that people see it differently and more positively.
Quality of Life Index
An attempt to objectively quantify the life satisfaction of people living in a particular place.
Rebranding
Creating a new look or a reputation for an area, often relying on an areas industrial past or literary fame; altering the feel and attitude people have towards it.
Regeneration
The process of improving a rural or urban place by making positive changes. These include knocking down derelict buildings and building new ones (redevelopment), improving the existing buildings and area (renewal) or changing the image of a place through redesign and publicity.
Regional Disparity
The economic and perhaps cultural, gap between different parts of a country, with a wealthy core region and a poorer peripheral region.
Re-imaging
Part of a regeneration strategy by changing the image or name of a place and therefore that’s how people view it.
Resilience
The ability of a community to resist the impacts of a hazard by adapting or recovering.
Rural-urban continuum
The whole range of area and place types, from the remotest peripheral rural area to the CBD of a large city. It includes successful rural areas, the rural urban fringe and suburbs.
Segregation
The separation of groups from other groups, either by force or choice of that group.
Sink Estates
Council housing estates in Britain that score badly on the Index of Multiple Deprivation.
Social clustering
Groups of people frequently living close to people of a similar background to feel more comfortable in their daily lives. This may be voluntary, or partly forced by economic factors such as affordability of housing and poverty. Sometimes known as polarisation
Social Exclusion
The inability of a group of people to become involved in the cultural activities of a place.
Socio-economic impacts
The effects on people (social) and businesses and employment (economic) of an event or a process.
Spiral of decline
An ongoing series of problems in an area, where one problem can lead to others, which in turn reinforces the problem.
Stakeholders
An individual or group of people who have an interest in the outcome of decisions made to change urban or rural areas.
Urbanisation
An increase in the proportion of a population that lives in urban areas, a result of rural to urban migration which causes the growth of urban settlements.
