Regeneration: Case Studies Flashcards
A place that needs Regeneration
- Why?
Detroit "part of Rust Belt" - industry moved to China - from 2000-2012, 26.6% pop. change - 29% unemployed - high levels of: diabetes, envy theft, wrath crime
A place that needs Regeneration
- Why doesn’t it
Detroit
- house prices expensive, if regenerated would go up more, not good for homeless
- despite poverty, low suicide rates = suggests everyone supports each other, strong community
An Urban Regeneration place
- Why there?
Stratford
- high unemployment
- low paid jobs e.g. factories
- lack of youth involvement e.g. clubs
- 1 in 4 houses over crowded
An Urban Regeneration place
- What will it do?
Stratford
- net increase in jobs - 50,000
- sustainable = pylons underground, contaminated soil cleaned up, water flow into Thames
- Better skills “Construction College” - learn to use digger, get job
- get compensation - £8500 and new furniture
An Urban Regeneration place
- Negatives
Stratford
- 2000 business’s demolished
- 450 house demolished
- new housing = double the price
A successful Urban Region
- Positive
San Francisco
- 3.6% unemployment
- attractive to migrants - job availability
- low crime rate
A successful Urban Region
- Negative
San Francisco
- unaffordable to live in
- commute for 3 hours
- lack in basic skills e.g. waiter
doesn’t need regen but should consider for future bc of labour shortages
A successful Rural region
- Positive
Napa Valley
- low crime rate
- range of schools (15)
- low unemployment (4.7%)
- wine industry - driven by immigrants (good place for them)
A successful Rural region
- Negative
Napa Valley
- immigrants = low levels of education = English poses a challenges = cant “work up ladder”
doesn’t need regen
Difference of opinion
- For
Heathrow
- pollution will be kept low
- more reliable
- good for economy
- all private money not public - no taxes
- new jobs
- trade agreements: China - easier
Difference of opinion
- Against
Heathrow
- more traffic
- more flights = pollution
- homes = demolished
- little support - 4 mil signed against
- biggest in world - won’t change anything
Rural regeneration
- Before regen.
The Eden Project
- 1.4 bil (EU funded)
- mining town - left scar on landscape
- mines ran out of material
- last clay pit closed 1988 - 2000 jobs lost
- isolated - only county w no motorway
Rural regeneration
- What they did
The Eden Project
- 80,000 tonnes of soil to fill in pits
- range of activities - caters all
- hotel for 2020
- study a degree
Rural regeneration
- Successful?
The Eden Project - unemployment dropped by 6% - in summer - 3000 visitors a day - in 2015 peaked - 7000 "victim of own success" bc queues but shows popular - everything locally sources - £762,000 a year - 420 perm jobs
Rural regeneration
- Unsuccessful?
The Eden Project
- lots of tourists = traffic = congestion = queues
- 13% of days a year above legal pollution limit
- started “get money off in walk/cycle/bus” - people just left cars outside on verges/roads/drives - ruined it
- more polluted now?
- still deprived (St. Austell - top 10)
- hasn’t replaced 2000 jobs
