Regenerating Places

Question 1

The information used to compare present-day characteristics with the pas

Answer 1

Baseline data

Question 2

The method or event that starts a regeneration scheme

Answer 2

Catalyst

Question 3

Physical and human aspects that help to determine one place from another

Answer 3

Characteristics

Question 4

Deprived areas which lack voluntary sector involvement

Answer 4

Cold spots

Question 5

Settlements where a high proportion of the population commute away daily or weekly.

Answer 5

Commuter villages

Question 6

The loss of industry and associated jobs

Answer 6

Deindustrialisation

Question 7

The types of people in a place by age, gender and socio-economic status

Answer 7

Demographic structure

Question 8

A policy used to encourage investment by removing restrictions and red-tape around capital markets

Answer 8

Deregulation

Question 9

The re-allocation of productive resources to new economic activities.

Answer 9

Diversification

Question 10

Large scale, prestigious regeneration projects, often involving bold architecture to generate a positive spin.

Answer 10

Flagship project

Question 11

Obtaining gas from shale rock by blasting it with high pressure water (hydraulic fracturing)

Answer 11

Fracking

Question 12

The role a place plays for its community and surroundings, these can be regional, national or even global.

Answer 12

Function

Question 13

Individual buildings or groups of houses designed to deter access and for high levels of surveillance

Answer 13

Gated communities

Question 14

A change in the social structure of a place when more affluent people move to a location, often linked to an improvement in housing.

Answer 14

Gentrification

Question 15

The impacts of poor health linked to deprivation

Answer 15

Glasgow effect

Question 16

A measure of deprivation based on 7 different indicators, applied to 32844 small areas of the UK, called lower-layer super output areas

Answer 16

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

Question 17

The built physical systems of a place e.g. roads, water pipes etc.

Answer 17

Infrastructure

Question 18

The average period that a person in a particular place may expect to live

Answer 18

Life expectancy

Question 19

A person’s actual experience of living in a particular place which can be affected by factors such as age, ethnicity, gender etc.

Answer 19

Lived experience

Question 20

Voluntary partnerships between local authorities and businesses set up in 2011 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to help determine local economic priorities and lead economic growth and job creation within the local area

Answer 20

Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)

Question 21

Small areas of the UK with 1500 residents or 650 households

Answer 21

Lower layer super output areas (LSOAs)

Question 22

Inequality in the UK between the north of the country and the ‘overheated’ south

Answer 22

North- South divide

Question 23

The varying ways that different people, with different lived experiences, engage with and view places.

Answer 23

Perception

Question 24

Geographical space shaped by individuals and communities over time

Answer 24

Place

Question 25

The uneven distribution of health services and personal health nationally

Answer 25

Postcode lottery

Question 26

A relative measure, e.g. in the UK households with an income of less than 60% of the national median

Answer 26

Poverty

Question 27

The job sector that involves acquiring raw materials

Answer 27

Primary sector

Question 28

Where the government allocates regeneration funding to a place, expecting further outside investment from private and charitable sources

Answer 28

Pump priming

Question 29

The level of social and economic wellbeing experienced by individuals or communities.

Answer 29

Quality of life

Question 30

The job sector covering the highest levels of decision making in an economy

Answer 30

Quinary sector

Question 31

The marketing aspect of regeneration designed to attract businesses, residents and visitors

Answer 31

Rebranding

Question 32

Long term upgrading of existing places or more drastic renewal scheme

Answer 32

Regeneration

Question 33

Making a place more attractive and desirable to invest in, live in and visit

Answer 33

Re-imaging

Question 34

Deindustrialised cities which have replaced industrial jobs with high paid, high skilled jobs e.g. in IT and media

Answer 34

Reinventor cities

Question 35

Deindustrialised cities that have replaced industrial jobs with other low paid, low skilled jobs e.g. in call centres

Answer 35

Replicator cities

Question 36

The unbroken transition from remote rural places to densely populated urban places

Answer 36

Rural – urban continuum

Question 37

The once powerful manufacturing region of the USA which fell into economic decline following deindustrialisation

Answer 37

Rust belt

Question 38

The job sector of manufacturing and assembly

Answer 38

Secondary sector

Question 39

Housing estates characterised by high levels of economic and social deprivation and crime

Answer 39

Sink estate

Question 40

The separation of high and low income groups in different locations

Answer 40

Social segregation

Question 41

The process whereby an initial catalyst for change e.g. deindustrialisation leads to multiple social, economic and environmental problems in an area

Answer 41

Spiral of decline

Question 42

The clustering of students in areas offering higher education provision

Answer 42

Studentification

Question 43

Regeneration that creates long lasting economic, social and environmental benefit

Answer 43

Sustainable regeneration

Question 44

The job sector involving the provision of services

Answer 44

Tertiary sector