Regeneration EQ2+EQ3

Question 1

Define perception

Answer 1

How someone sees an area, which maybe influenced by their past experiences, age, gender or quality of life

Question 2

Why has Berkshire been so successful?

Answer 2

• The M4 motorway runs straight through the centre of the county creating a corridor of businesses
• Good internet connection allowing for footloose industries to move t the area
• close proximity to Heathrow

Question 3

What social issues lead to different lived experiences?

Answer 3

• lack of education
• discrimination
• housing access
• Healthcare access
• Access to employment
• Treatment by authorities
• public sector pay issues

Question 4

Define civic engagement

Answer 4

ways in which people participate in their community in order to improve the quality of lifer for others or to shape their community’s future

Question 5

Define political apathy

Answer 5

people unwillingly accept the conditions they live in but feel powerless to do anything.

Question 6

Reasons for London Riots

Answer 6

• Increased university fees
• Urban deprivation
• Poor relationship between police and black community
• High youth unemployment

Question 7

Evaluate the media as a resource

Answer 7

• Qualitative data
• Must be used objectively
• view point comes from the writer

Question 8

Role of national government

Answer 8

• To consider levels of inequality across the country
• Caused inequality in transport spending
• Trying to get rid of the north south divide by creating the Northern power house.

Question 9

Benefits of HS2

Answer 9

• Faster journey times

- expected 60000 construction jobs to be created

Question 10

Problems with HS2

Answer 10

• planned route travels through area of natural beauty

- There will be not stations between the destinations stopping communities along the route from benefitting

Question 11

How did the governments policy of financial deregulation create prosperity.

Answer 11

• Stopped the London stock exchange from having a monopoly

- Enabled foreign banks to setup in London increasing FDI

Question 12

Costs of fracking

Answer 12

• Drilling may have cause earthquakes

- Has negative effects on the environment

Question 13

Benefits of fracking

Answer 13

• Creates energy security as the UK doesn’t have to import gas from over seas

Question 14

Define Science Park

Answer 14

An area devoted to scientific research or development of technological businesses. Good for am area due to an area due to investment attracted.

Question 15

Re branding

Answer 15

Making changes to a place to alter people’s ideas of it as a place

Question 16

Define re-imaging

Answer 16

Changing a place from somewhere that looks bad to somewhere that looks bad to somewhere that looks good.

Question 17

What are the target groups of regeneration

Answer 17

Visitors 
Residents 
Employees 
Business 
Industry 
Exporters

Question 18

Case study use:

Outline the ways in which places may made more attractive ton inward investment.

Answer 18

Olympic Park, London
Powys Regeneration partnership
Titanic Quarter, Belfast
Bronte Country

Question 19

Case study use:

Explain why the maybe tensions between different players in regeneration

Answer 19

Aylesbury Regeneration 
Olympic park 
Powys regeneration partnership 
Titanic quarter 
Bronte country