Regeneration

Question 1

What are physical factors causing places to change? (Why do places change)

Answer 1

•Sea level rise and climate change are causing rapid coastal erosion
-Happisburgh
•Concerns are starting to shape polices, architecture and land-use decisions
-Greenwich Millennium Village

Question 2

How has accessibility and connectedness caused places to change? (Why do places change)

Answer 2

•Development of the🇬🇧motorway and rail networks has changed the importance of towns/villages
-Essex and Kent -> HS1
•Improved transport leads to an increase in migration(within and into🇬🇧)
•Growth of regional airports has facilitated immigration
•2/3 of🇬🇧has access to fibre optic broadband
-government has provided £530M of funding for broadband into rural areas

Question 3

How has historical development caused places to change?(Why do places change)

Answer 3

•Some places have changed slowly over time

-Totnes introduced ‘Transition Town’ projects to protect its local culture and history

Question 4

Why do places change?

Answer 4

• Physical factors
• Accessibility and connectedness
• Historical development
• Local and national planning
• Globalisation
• Deindustrialisation

Question 5

What changes have happened in Birmingham? (Places change function and characteristics)

Answer 5

•1877

• industrial buildings
• canals (trade)
• Curzon station (trade)
• cavalry barracks

•2016

• canals
• university buildings and residence
• more open/green space
• housing

Question 6

What happened to inner city Birmingham’s and inner city Herefords ranks? (Places change function and characteristics)

Answer 6

•Birmingham - got worse 
-2010 - 3rd decile, 8802
-2015 - 4th decile, 11279
•Hereford - got better 
-2010 - 5th decile, 13192
-2015 - 4th decile, 9898

Question 7

What are Hereford’s global links?🐂

Answer 7

•In
-Asian restaurants
•Out
-Hereford cattle
-SAS

Question 8

What are Hereford’s international links?🐂

Answer 8

•In
-Polish workers, shops and food
•Out
- Bulmer’s and Weston’s cider

Question 9

What are Hereford’s national links?🐂

Answer 9

•In
-Short break visitors
•Out
-Tourism marketing

Question 10

What are Hereford’s regional links?🐂

Answer 10

•In
-NHS and Nuffield hospital patients
•Out
-BBC Hereford and Worcester

Question 11

What can google images reveal about a town/city?

Answer 11

A place’s image or branding
•Landscape
•People
•History
•Modern buildings 
•Animals
•Maps
E.g. Hereford vs Birmingham

Question 12

Why is regeneration not needed in California?🇺🇸

Napa and San Francisco

Answer 12

•Unemployment
•Migration
-more people moving in from other states than leaving
•Property Prices
-many people live elsewhere and travel long distances to work (San Fran)
-still expensive but cheaper (Napa)
•Skill Shortages
-high demand of jobs - especially IT & restaurants (San Fran)
-struggle to recruit workers for wine industry

Question 13

Why is Detroit in decline?🇺🇸

Answer 13

• Transfer of manufacturing further west (China)
• Increased automation
• Decline of US steel and coal industries (cheaper in China)
• Free trade arguments such as the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (cheaper to get manufacturing done in Mexico then transported)
• Globalisation

Question 14

Why is regeneration needed in Detroit?🇺🇸

Answer 14

•Loss in population
•Many suffer from diabetes
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