Regenerating places Flashcards
Knowledge economy
Consumption and production based on intellectual capital
Footloose
When a company is flexible in where they can locate
Rural-urban continuum
The unbroken space between rural and urban places
Regeneration
Long-term, sustainable upgrade of an existing place, sometimes to preserve an identity
Studentification
When neighbourhoods become dominated by student occupation
Ethnicity
A group of people who identify with eachother on attributes
Gentrification
The process whereby a poor urban place is changed by wealthy people moving in and displacing current inhabitants
IMD
Index of multiple deprivation - splits England into ranked LSOAs, based on income, employmwnt, health, education etc
Re-branding
The way a place is redeveloped and marketed, so that it gains a new identity to attract investors and visitors. Done through re-imaging and regeneration
Re-imaging
Countering negative place image by changing perceptions of a place
Post-production countryside
Rural areas that no longer make most of their income from the primary sector
Rural flight
Young people leaving a rural area due to a lack of opportunities and/or services
Diversification
Converting areas used in the primary sector to tertiary (farms made into camping, paintball, ice cream etc)
Local Interest Groups
Collection of people in an area that share a view on regeneration projects
