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Making Spaces, Changing places Flashcards

1
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When was District 6 built

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1838

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Why was District 6 built?

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To provide homes for black ex-slaves

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1930’s redevelopment plan for District 6 details

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W.S Lunn proposed a dramatic reconstruction, by the beginning of WW2 1127 homes were built

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Problems with Lunn’s redevelopment of District 6

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Most black freedmen could not afford the rent for one of the new homes

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The start if the eviction

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11th February 1966, District 6 declared a white only area under the Group Areas act.

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Number of removals

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60,000 removals to the Cape Flats 25 km away`

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Re population of District 6

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3,500 white south Africans moved into the district by 1985

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Returning District 6 to its origins

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2003 24 homes built for people aged over 80 who were evicted

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Cultural characteristics of District 6

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Freed slaves, mix of ethnicities including Malay’s, blacks and muslims

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Why did the government remove people

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Official line: racial integration breeds conflict and crime ridden
Realistically: Table mountain, valuable real estate

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Living conditions District 6

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16 people in a one room hous

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Brick lane changing ethnicities and religons

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17th Century Hugenots La Neuve Eglise 1742
19th Century Jews 1898, chapel becomes Great Spitalfields synagog
20th Century, Bangladeshi families migrated in 1976 Great London Mosque

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Mean height of buildings Brick Lane

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4 floors

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Use of ground floor BL

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95% commercial or entertainment

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New developments on BL

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Holiday Inn costing 21 million

Cereal Killer Cafe 4 pounds per bowl

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Demography of BL

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Very ethnic, high numbers of Sylhet Bangladeshi’s, 60 percent aged 20-34, over 8 times the national average of muslims

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17
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Disney Land visitor numbers

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275 million visits per year

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Disney Land number of kids lost per day

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11

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Yemen Gender ranking

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Global Gender report, last out of 145 countries

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literacy rates Yemen

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Men 70%, Women 29%

21
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Percentage of women married before 18 Yemen

22
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Saudi Sexuality

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LGBT rights not recognised, Jail and 450 lashings for meeting a man, contrasted with brighton (15 gay clubs)

23
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Case study Emotional attachment to place

24
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Before 911, what did the WTC stand for

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Western capitalism and US powe

25
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Number of people killed in 911

26
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Size of real estate damaged and size of memorial

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16 acres turned into sacred grounnd, 6 acre memorial

27
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911 Memorial facts and quotes

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6 acre memorial aimed at “reflecting absence”, 23 million visitors since opening in 2011.

28
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Freedom towe quote

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“healing a scar in the bedrock of the city”

29
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Borat date film premiered

30
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What did Borat Gross

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$250million

31
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Examples of antisemitism in Borat

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running of the jew

32
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Breaches of tradition in Borat

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fermented horse urine, pottasium

33
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What did Kazak do about it

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2 pr companies, 9 min film

34
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Socialist realism

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Censorship in Soviet russia 1920-60, depicts health and happiness

35
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Charity Appeals

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Band aid “where nothing ever grows”, Radi aid and rusty radiator award, ‘hunger stops here campaign, 54 countries in Africa!

36
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Issues with formal representations

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Malaria deaths in Africa fallen by 49%, maternal mortality fallen by a third but inaccurate data, only 16% of deaths from those causes are recorded and only 12 out of 54 african countries have had a census in the last 12 years.

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HIV rates in formal representations

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fallen 1.8 million to 1 million

38
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Birmingham initial grows

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1166 De bermingham family
Mathew Boulton first factory 1761
Cadbury Bournville
Austin car plant 60% of men had skilled jobs in manufacturing

39
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Birmingham Decline

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1973 oil crisis, OPEC, “weapon”, TNCS, cars in japan, outsourcing, “comprehensive redevelopment” meant that SME’s couldn’t get premises

40
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Birmingham regeneration Local

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Local Government NIA and NEC investments

700 million to Birmingham new street European and International affairs team,

41
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Birmingham regeneration national

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City Challenge, Single Regeneration budget, HS2 (20bn)

42
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Birmingham EU regeneration

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Social investment fund £235 million

43
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Cambridge Uni as a source of inequality

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total income 1.44 bn, employs 9000 staff and 18000 students

44
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Cambridge proximity to london

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66 miles, average house price of £411,000

45
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Silicon Fen

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24% of UK’s adventure capital, 1,000 tech companies

46
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Reliance on manufacturing

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Birminham is v reliant, exports fell by 14.5% 2012-13

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