Regenerating Places Flashcards
Place
Geographical spaces shaped by individuals and communities over time
Rural-urban continuum
The unbroken transition from sparsely populated or unpopulated remote rural places to densely populated intensively used urban places (towns and city centres)
Regeneration
Long term upgrading of existing places or more drastic renewal schemes for urban residential retail industrial and commercial areas as well as rural areas. This sometimes includes conservation to preserve a specific identity. It is connected with rebranding which centres on place marketing where places are given a new or enhanced identity to increase their attractiveness and sociology-economic viability
Quinary
The highest levels of decision making in an economy- the top business executives and officials in government science universities nonprofit organisations healthcare culture and the media. It is concentrated in STEM employment
Location quotient
A mappable ratio which helps show specialisation in any data distribution being studied. A figure equal to or close to 1.00 suggests national and local patterns are similar with no particular specialisation such as retailing. LQs over 1 show a concentration of that type of employment locally
Gross value added
Measures the contribution to the economy of each individual producer industry or sector. It is used in calculating GDP
Postcode lottery
This refers to the uneven distribution of local personal health and health services nationally especially in mental health early diagnosis of cancer and emergency care for the elderly
Glasgow effect
The impacts of poor health linked to deprivation
Quality of life
The level of social and economic well-being experienced by individuals or communities measured by various indicators including health happiness educational achievement income and leisure time. It is a wider concept than “standard of living” which is centred on just income
Functions
The roles a place plays for its community and surrounding. Some usually larger places offer regional national or even global functions. Functions may grow disappear and change over time. There is a hierarchy according to size and number of functions
Characteristics
The physical and human aspects that help distinguish on place from another: location, national features, layout, land use, architecture and cultural traits
Connections
Any type of physical social or online linkages between places. Places may keep some of their characteristics or change them as a result
Sink estate
Housing estate characteristics by high levels of economic and social deprivation and crime especially domestic violence drugs and gang warfar
Gated communities
Found in urban and rural settlements as either individual buildings or groups of houses. They are landscape of surveillance with CCTV and often 24/7 security guards. They are designed to deter access by unknown people and reduce crime
Commuter villages
Settlements that have a proportion of their population living in them but who commute out daily or weekly usually to larger settlements either nearby or further afield
Lived experience
The actual experience of living in a particular place or environment. Such experience can have a profound impact on a person’s perceptions and values as well as on their general development and their outlook on the world
Rebranding
The marketing aspect of designed to attract businesses residents and visitors. It often includes re-imaging
Re-imaging
Making a place more attractive and desirable to invest and live in or visit
Infrastructure
The basic physical systems of a place:
Economic infrastructure includes highways, energy distribution, water and sewerage facilities, and telecommunication networks
Social infrastructure includes public housing, hospitals, schools and university
Flagship regeneration projects
Large scale prestigious projects often using bold “signature architecture”. The hope is to generate a positive spin in a place
Catalyst
The method used or event that starts a regeneration scheme such as the building of a new shopping mall leisure facility creation of a country park or holding an event
Area based initiatives
ABIs aim to improve selected people or places with a specific location and include educational attainment enhancing crime prevention and reducing unemployment
Poverty
Poverty is relative to the place and time people live in. The poverty threshold used in the UK is households with an income of less than 60% of the national median after housing costs are included
Baseline data
The information used to compare present-day characteristics with for example past land-use maps photos and statistics
