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REGENERATING PLACES Flashcards

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What are the life expectancies for Glasgow and Exeter?

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Glasgow
Women = 76.6
Men = 67.8
Exeter
Women = 82
Men = 77

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What are the crime statistics for Glasgow vs Exeter

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Exeter crime index = 33
Glasgow crime index = 46

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What are the health statistics for Glasgow and Exeter?

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Exeter healthcare system index = 80
Glasgow healthcare system index = 80

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What are the average incomes for Glasgow and Exeter?

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Exeter = £60,000
Glasgow = £40,000

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What are the regional influences of East Devon?

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  • Commute into Exeter
  • AONB
  • Coastal path
  • Buses
  • Great Western Railway
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What are the national influences of East Devon?

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  • M5
  • Trains
  • Exeter airport
  • Conservative political ideology
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What are the global influences of East Devon?

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  • TNCs such as those on Exeter High street
  • 4G in most places
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What are the regional influences of East London?

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  • Enterprise zones
  • Liberal view on trade
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What are the national influences of East London?

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  • 2012 Olympics
  • Less of a sense of community
  • Labour political ideology
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What are the global influences of East London?

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  • High rates of 5G
  • TNCs
  • Global tourism
  • Financial sector
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What factors contribute towards Sydney being a successful place?

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  • Economy is important for trade, manufacturing and education
  • Largest economy and CBD
  • 8 million visitors in 2016
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What are the contradictory factors towards living in a successful place such as Sydney?

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  • 5.8 unemployment rate (high)
  • Expensive country to live in
  • Gentrification pushes up house prices
  • Congestion, pollution
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Why is the Rust Belt unsuccessful?

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  • Low population
  • Little competition and innovation
  • Increased outsourcing
  • Negative multiplier effect
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Where is the Rust Belt?

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  • Areas across the NE USA that suffered from a decline in manufacturing
  • Pittsburgh, Chicago and Detroit
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Outline what happened at the London 2011 riots and why?

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  • Increased unemployment and inflation led to social strain
  • Anger over racial tensions and class divides
  • Scrapping of supporting programmes for the unemployment
  • MET opted for a more aggressive policing style
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Outline the role of national government (specifically in the construction and conflicts of HS2)

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  • Maintains growth: quick journeys. balances out UK house prices, during construction = 30,000 jobs
  • Conflicts? Loss of habitat, removing land and housing (negative social externalities).
17
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Outline examples of retail-led regeneration strategies

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  • High Street task force (reduction in the death of the high-street)
  • Bristol: Cribbs Causeway and Cabotts circus
18
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Outline examples of sport-led regeneration strategies

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  • 2022 World Cup: Quatar
  • London 2012 Olympics
19
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Outline examples of culture-led regeneration strategies

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  • National Trust homes
  • Charles Dickens in London
  • The Bronte sisters
  • Titanic museum in Belfast
20
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Outline examples of public and private rural diversification regeneration strategies

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  • Extending farms for different uses (supported for NFU) e.g., Diddly Squat Farm
21
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How did Plymouth (urban area) rebrand itself?

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  • Lively and vibrant city centre
  • Hoe area enhance civic focus, promote vital functions
22
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Outline the challenges of Plymouth’s rebranding (urban regeneration)

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  • Vulnerability in manufacturing
  • Low entrepreneurship
  • Low income and low skills
23
Q

Evaluate the combined universities of Cornwall initiative

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(+) Helps graduates set up businesses
(+) £260mn in funding
(+) Encourages higher education participation in Cornwall
(+) 4500 new jobs, year round services
(-) Pressure and conflicts on housing (increasing house prices)
(-) Geographical isolation

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Outline the Eden project as a rural regeneration strategy

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  • 13mn visitors since opening
  • Opened in 2001
  • Located in a reclaimed China clay pit
  • Located 5km away from town of St Austell
25
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Evaluate the Eden Project as a rural regeneration strategy

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(+) Built onto a brownfield site
(+) £1.1bn for the Cornish economy so far
(-) Doesn’t overcome the issue of geographical isolation

26
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Evaluate superfast broadband in Cornwall as a rural regeneration strategy

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(+) 4500 new jobs
(+) 12000 businesses secured
(+) World’s largest rural fibre network
(-) Costed £132 million
(-) High damage repair cost

27
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Outline and evaluate the London 2012 Olympics as a sports led regeneration strategy

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(+) New housing is zero-carbon and more water efficient
(+) £13bn into the national economy
(+) New primary schools
(+) 10,000 new homes
(+) Easy walking and cycle paths
(+) Good public transport
(-) At the time - severe congestion and transportation issues
(-) Waste of public money?
(-) The Olympic site is concreting over a unique urban wilderness, one of the last major undeveloped sites in London

Edexcel Geograpy A Level Case Studies (6 decks)

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