Place Key Info Flashcards
what points should be mentioned for an 8 mark question on local community groups
- how are they advocating for change
- what has been the environmental change
- what work has been done with other players
what are some physical and human place profiles
physical - natural environment - altitude, drainage, climate and weather
human - demographic, socio-economic, political, cultural, built environment
example of top down placemaking (government)
Glasgow - Pacific Quay - built buildings and fast broadband
London Docklands -> regenerated to Canary Wharf
- £4bn invested -> generated £8bn
- railway
- 80,000 jobs created
- 24,000 housing units
examples of bottom up placemaking including one that failed (architects/planner/community groups)
Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft:
- Bear Pit -> community space with table tennis
- community gardens + graffiti management
- Tesco riots in 2011 - wanted tesco to leave to make room for more independent shops - didn’t happen
Failed:
Hulme Crescent in Manchester 1960 -> poor design attempting to copy royal crescent:
- 96.3% of residents wanted to leave
- cockroach and rat infestation due to heating pipes
- 5 year old died falling from the balcony
components of place identity
- physical geography
- demographics
- socio-economic
- cultural
- political
- built environment
- natural environment
what is glocalisation
regaining local identity
components of the Index of Multiple Deprivation
- income
- housing
- education
- healthcare
- employment
cons of informal representation
- very subjective
-misrepresented - often small scale
cons of formal
- doesn’t show how people live there
- reliability / accuracy
- doesn’t show how people feel about it
- can be cherrypicked —> misleading
what are the factors shaping place profiles at a local scale
- people
- money
- resources
- ideas
what are the issues of inequality within Jakarta
- overcrowding in slums + electric fires
- low income < $4 a day / high absolute poverty
flows of money/investment
Flows of money / investments = financial hubs such as
Canary Wharf -> was dockland now expensive area with high employment in financial services
structural economic change in EDCs
pros EDCs:
- ^ in export growth -> multiplier effect -> trickled down to local areas
- reduced negative trade balance
- exposure to new technology = ^ in skills and ^ labour productivity
- employment growth in manufacturing spreads wealth = improved development gap
HOWEVER - unlikely to decrease inequality/TNCs potentially exploitative/ environmental issues
what is the multiplier effect
economic activity —> creates additional wages that are then spent locally
ways in which governments can govern social inequality
- tax - progressive tax
- subsidies - free school meals
- planning - upgrading of council housing
- education - training programmes or health initiatives
