Regenerating Places Flashcards
The information used to compare present-day characteristics with the pas
Baseline data
The method or event that starts a regeneration scheme
Catalyst
Physical and human aspects that help to determine one place from another
Characteristics
Deprived areas which lack voluntary sector involvement
Cold spots
Settlements where a high proportion of the population commute away daily or weekly.
Commuter villages
The loss of industry and associated jobs
Deindustrialisation
The types of people in a place by age, gender and socio-economic status
Demographic structure
A policy used to encourage investment by removing restrictions and red-tape around capital markets
Deregulation
The re-allocation of productive resources to new economic activities.
Diversification
Large scale, prestigious regeneration projects, often involving bold architecture to generate a positive spin.
Flagship project
Obtaining gas from shale rock by blasting it with high pressure water (hydraulic fracturing)
Fracking
The role a place plays for its community and surroundings, these can be regional, national or even global.
Function
Individual buildings or groups of houses designed to deter access and for high levels of surveillance
Gated communities
A change in the social structure of a place when more affluent people move to a location, often linked to an improvement in housing.
Gentrification
The impacts of poor health linked to deprivation
Glasgow effect
A measure of deprivation based on 7 different indicators, applied to 32844 small areas of the UK, called lower-layer super output areas
Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
The built physical systems of a place e.g. roads, water pipes etc.
Infrastructure
The average period that a person in a particular place may expect to live
Life expectancy
A person’s actual experience of living in a particular place which can be affected by factors such as age, ethnicity, gender etc.
Lived experience
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
Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
Small areas of the UK with 1500 residents or 650 households
Lower layer super output areas (LSOAs)
Inequality in the UK between the north of the country and the ‘overheated’ south
North- South divide
The varying ways that different people, with different lived experiences, engage with and view places.
Perception
Geographical space shaped by individuals and communities over time
Place
The uneven distribution of health services and personal health nationally
Postcode lottery
A relative measure, e.g. in the UK households with an income of less than 60% of the national median
Poverty
The job sector that involves acquiring raw materials
Primary sector
Where the government allocates regeneration funding to a place, expecting further outside investment from private and charitable sources
Pump priming
The level of social and economic wellbeing experienced by individuals or communities.
Quality of life
The job sector covering the highest levels of decision making in an economy
Quinary sector
The marketing aspect of regeneration designed to attract businesses, residents and visitors
Rebranding
Long term upgrading of existing places or more drastic renewal scheme
Regeneration
Making a place more attractive and desirable to invest in, live in and visit
Re-imaging
Deindustrialised cities which have replaced industrial jobs with high paid, high skilled jobs e.g. in IT and media
Reinventor cities
Deindustrialised cities that have replaced industrial jobs with other low paid, low skilled jobs e.g. in call centres
Replicator cities
The unbroken transition from remote rural places to densely populated urban places
Rural – urban continuum
The once powerful manufacturing region of the USA which fell into economic decline following deindustrialisation
Rust belt
The job sector of manufacturing and assembly
Secondary sector
Housing estates characterised by high levels of economic and social deprivation and crime
Sink estate
The separation of high and low income groups in different locations
Social segregation
The process whereby an initial catalyst for change e.g. deindustrialisation leads to multiple social, economic and environmental problems in an area
Spiral of decline
The clustering of students in areas offering higher education provision
Studentification
Regeneration that creates long lasting economic, social and environmental benefit
Sustainable regeneration
The job sector involving the provision of services
Tertiary sector
