Places case studies

Question 1

Glasgow

Answer 1

• most deprived area in UK
• male 73 life expectancy compared to UK 79

Question 2

London Docklands

Answer 2

• use decreased due to containerisation
• 12000 jobs lost
• 60% of men unemployed
• regenerated to have millennium dome, hi tech firms and luxury flats - gentrification
• less social housing, people forced out of homes

Question 3

M4 corridor

Answer 3

• tertiary/quaternary jobs created
• competitors attracted
• more homes
• more economic growth
• increase in housing price
• need car
• traffic
• jobs lost

Question 4

Sydney

Answer 4

• strong knowledge economy
• 450000 businesses
• sun belt
• high housing cost
• deregulation of finance sector
• low deprivation
• young workforce

Question 5

Rust Belt

Answer 5

• declined due to overseas producing cheaper coal and steel
• us coal industry survives due to subsidies
• brain drain

Question 6

Grampound, Cornwall

Answer 6

• village pop 800, 25% over 65
• social isolation, high travel costs
• new community shop allowed for local shopping
• 257/280 households hold shares in shop

Question 7

HS2

Answer 7

• provides 60000 construction jobs
• reduces congestion
• environmental cost
• expensive
• displaces people
• less lorries - reduce CO2

Question 8

Heathrow

Answer 8

• expansion creates jobs and economic benefits
• boosts international trade
• 40% of UK exports go through Heathrow
• noise and air pollution
• 761 homes destroyed

Question 9

Fracking

Answer 9

• energy security
• regulated - only safe and environmentally friendly
• safe, secure and affordable energy supply
• lower gas/oil prices
• more independent
• pollution
• habitat destruction
• earthquakes
• harmful chemicals used

Question 10

Cornwall

Answer 10

• Newquay airport lacks year round economy
• post production countryside
• quotas restricted fishing
• tin and copper mines mined out
• cheaper imported food
• Watergate Bay restaurants
• watersports academy

Question 11

Plymouth

Answer 11

• Drakes circus
• cruise terminal
• Royal william yard - Urban Splash regenerated it to have shops, restaurants, 200 apartments

Question 12

Barking and Dagenham

Answer 12

• town centre - 400 homes and 1000m2 of commercial space made
• riverside - 11000 homes, parks, 5 schools, health centres, 65000m2 commercial, retail, leisure space - creates 6000 jobs

Question 13

Rural regeneration - Cornwall

Answer 13

• Objective one - match funding (pump prime)
• EU convergence funding
• watergate bay - extreme sports academy
• combined universities cornwall - knowledge economy
• wave hub - wave power research project, earn £76 mil , create 170 jobs
• superfast broadband - largest rural fibre network, cost £132 mil, 53 from EU and 78 from BT, £200 mil earned p/year
• Eden project - generated 1.1 bil, 13 mil visitors, used local suppliers, made tourism year round sector, employed 650, cost £140 mil from lottery, EU, loans