Regeneration exam Flashcards
What is media used for in regeneration?
Where do the all media views come from?
To convey different place messages, tell you about the complier, their perceptions and attachments to particular places.
Human mind and hand.
Which two types of media can have biased views and why?
What are videos and films used for in regeneration views?
Newspaper articles because it’s written by the author and radio and TV because it’s made by the programme producers.
Conveying the visual identity of places
What is the role of national governments in regeneration?
What are the two main characteristics of infrastructure funding?
To manage the country’s economic, social and physical environments through political decisions, investment in infrastructure and addressing issues of accessibility are major factors for maintaining economic growth.
High cost and longevity - which is why government funding is needed.
What sector of investment are national governments?
Private sector - used to design, build, finance and maintain public sectors
What are the stakeholders in urban regeneration?
- national government •planners
- non governmental organisations such as pressure groups, charities and businesses
- local businesses, communities and councils
What are 3 examples of hard regeneration?
What are 3 examples of soft regeneration?
- capital investment, physical buildings and infrastructure
* planning, skills and education
National governments
What are the 3 aspects of the role of government planning?
What is the importance of planning laws?
What will happen if the importance of planning laws has slow decision making? (6)
•planning laws, planning for fracking and planning for housing needs
Shapes places and includes place marketing to improve an existing place or completely change its image.
Slow decision making will result in planning blight: investors are unwilling to commit until a decision is made, house prices may fall and trap residents into not being able to move, landlords may not maintain properties and a downward spiral results.
Why do national governments have planning for fracking as a national priority? (2)
What are the two national government policies for international migration?
Because it will increase secure energy supplies and economic prosperity.
~ the direct degree of involvement in capital markets comprised of banking and the stock exchange
~ more indirect migration policies that influence labour supplies and skills
Who are the main players in regeneration?
What do the decisions that local and national governments make, effect?
~ national and local governments - have most power
- affect rate and type of development - which affects the economic regeneration of places
What is the importance of local government/authorities?
To crate attractive business environments for investors and workers who are highly skilled and paid. They develop plans which designate specific areas for development, science parks are a good example.
What is the role of local interest groups? Provide a real life example!
Tensions can occur between groups that wish to preserve places and those that seek change. They may be categorised by their viewpoints: (2)
Local interest groups play varying roles in regeneration policies as we have seen in the Heathrow Expansion, HS2 and fracking debates.
- socio-economic - youth and retired groups
- environmental - local conservation societies in rural and urban areas
What are three types of regeneration strategies?
- Explain an example of an unsuccessful rural regeneration scheme
•retail-led plans, tourism, leisure and sport.
- North Antrim Coast - plans to develop a £100 million golf resort were disputed in court for more than a decade before being approved in 2013. The opponents (National Trust and UNESCO) thought the landscape change so close to the coastline was inappropriate. National governments played a key role in decisions. Proposal was eventually discarded as it was unable to raise the finances.
- Explain an example of an unsuccessful urban regeneration
- Silver Hill in Winchester - 2008 mixed land use proposal supported by Winchester Council was contested by pressure groups, including Winchester Deserves Better which attracted 1000 people on a Facebook page(local community). It lacked affordable housing and had insensitive architecture, the scheme was delayed by the High Court creating planing blight.
