Taunton field work (paper 3)

Question 1

describe the location of taunton town centre

Answer 1

• close to the FSC = short journey = plenty of time
• footpaths and sade crossing points & accessable
• plublic toilets and car parks
• recently undergone regeneration = appropriate
• previous schools had studied here so therefroe safe and legal for us as well

Question 2

what were the risk assessments and how were they revolved - give 3

Answer 2

• slipping tripping = sensible footwear, follow paths
• being runover = follow instructions, use crossing points
• getting lost = remain in groups of 3, use google maps prior

Question 3

what is meant by the term ‘central business distrct’

Answer 3

the main shopping and service area of a city

Question 4

what is meant by the term ‘green field site’

Answer 4

land that has not been built on before

Question 5

what is meant by the term ‘inner city’

Answer 5

residential area charcterised by dense terrace housing built in the 19th century

Question 6

what is meant by the term ‘brownfield site’

Answer 6

land that has been built on before and is to be cleared and reused

Question 7

what is meant by the term ‘suburbs’

Answer 7

residential area characterised by detached or semi-detached houses with large gardens

Question 8

what is meant by the term ‘sustainable city’

Answer 8

an urban area where residents have a way of life that will last a long time. the envrionmetn is not damaged and the economic and social fabric are able to stand their test of time

Question 9

what is meant by the term ‘urban regeneration’

Answer 9

investment into areas that need improvement

Question 10

what is the Taunton field work title

Answer 10

what impact has regeneration had on Taunton

Question 11

what was your hypothesis to ‘what impact has regeneration had on Taunton’

Answer 11

the Taunton re-thing regeneration scheme has been somewhat successful because there are some areas where the regeneration has clearly worked but other places where is hasn’t

Question 12

what was the chosen sampling method

Answer 12

stratified

Question 13

why did you pick stratified sampling method for this enquirey

Answer 13

becuase it allowed us to identify sites which had undergone regeneration as this would help us assess the impact regeneration has had in the areas

Question 14

what is quantitive data

Answer 14

numericla data

Question 15

what is qualitative data

Answer 15

opinion and sketches

Question 16

how did you select which areas you analysied and why

Answer 16

we picked 4 sites where different regeneration techniques had been used based off of prior research because it would not have been possible to evalutate the whole of Taunton in the time frame

Question 17

what four sites were used in this enquiery

Answer 17

• castle green
• somerset square
• station boulevard
• firepool lock

Question 18

describe what was done to do a quantitive method of measuring the envrionemntal quality of all 4 areas studied

Answer 18

• used a score sheet that inclueded 6 elements of the environment:
• vandalism, litter, green space, street furnishing, lighting, safety
• did a scale from 0-10 at each site max 60 points ~ higher point = better quality

Question 19

which area had the best quantitative environmental quality score

Answer 19

castle green

Question 20

what were the two qualitative methods to analysis the areas

Answer 20

• word epitomes
• annotated photographs

Question 21

describe how you conducted the word epitome data research

Answer 21

• at each site we wrote down three words that best summed up the area
• once in the classroom we created a ‘wordle’ and made an overall view of each site
• we also compared this to past years and resisdent surveys to compare different views

Question 22

describe how you conducted annotating photographs as a method

Answer 22

• at each site photographs were taken to highlight evidene of regeneration
• when returning to school we annotated these photos and outlined which areas had best impacts of regeneration

Question 23

what is primary data

Answer 23

data collected that is original and collected for the first time

Question 24

what is secondary data

Answer 24

data collected by using already availiable sources

Question 25

what did you use as data presentation for the environmental quality data

Answer 25

radar diagrams

Question 27

explain how radar diagrams effectively outlined the best environmental quality of areas of Taunton

Answer 27

• each factor of the environmental quality assessment was a stem of the diagram
• consequently the larger the srea covered by the diagram the better the environmental quality
• we did this for all 4 of the areas and this easily allowed us to make comparisons

Question 28

explain the advantage of collected the class data and using the average

Answer 28

• anomolies wouldnt stand out as much
• more results recorded = more reliable and accurate as sample size is increased

Question 29

suggest how the environmental quality assessment data presentation could be improved

Answer 29

• can go back at different times of the day and on different days to make a larger average
• we can geolocate it rather than using a radar graph so them we can spacially see the data on a GIS map

Question 30

how should GIS be used to improve this

Answer 30

make up proportional symbols so we can visually see how the environemnt change across regenerated areas of Taunton to assess which area had greater success.

Question 31

what were the three ways we presented the data

Answer 31

• radar graph (environmental quality assessment scores)
• word cloud (epitome words)
• GIS located proportional symbols

Question 32

outline the advantage and disadvantages of radar graphs to assess Taunton regreneration success

Answer 32

• • can easily see what is good and bad
• • easy to visually compare sites
• • not easy to read
• • not geolocated

Question 33

outline the advantage and disadvantages of word clouds to assess Taunton regeneration success

Answer 33

• • easy to read
• • commonly used words
• • aesthetically pleasing
• • only can be used for qualitative data
• • hard to compare

Question 34

outline the advantage and disadvantages of GIS located proportional symbols to assess Taunton regeneration success

Answer 34

• • shows exactly where data is from ~ geolocated
• • easy to read from proportional circles
• • can preform spacial analysis
• • cannot get an exact value ~ only get a range

Question 35

how could have you improved the word cloud and epitome words to be more accurate and easier to process

Answer 35

give everyone a selection of wrods to choose from

Question 36

descrive your results for the Taunton regeneration assessment

Answer 36

• all areas of Taunton which had experienced regerneration had positive environmental quality scores
• therefore indicating regernaertaion had been environmentally successful
• station boulevard had the lowest rating ~ this perhaps becuase of the busy atmosphere and location in the centre of town

Question 37

describe your conclusion

Answer 37

• in areas where regeneration had occured there was evidence of positive environmental qualoty
• particulary in somerset square and castle green
• environment was poorer in busier areas
• evidence of gentrification in newly regenerated areas

Question 38

evaluate the accuracy of your assessment

Answer 38

• sites were large scale = difficult ot know where to assess = inaccuracy
• time of day affects ~ rush hour = more traffic
• good weather = less people in cars
• subjective score = our opinion can be different to others

Question 39

evaluate the reliablility of your assessment

Answer 39

• as we only collected data on one day it may of not been a reliable representation
• there were roadworks present at one site which could have impacted our score and reliability
• at the end of the day it was when schools were ending so this would have also affectedd noise and environmental scores

Question 40

give your evaluation of the assessment of Taunton’s regeneration

Answer 40

• overall our conclusions are valid as we used sampling to gain a representative view of the area and to reduce bias
• while our EQA results had potential for bias it was a subjective measure but by comparing results we made them more reliable
• secondary data managed to help us support our conclusions making it more reliable

Question 41

give some improvements which could be made to the assessment

Answer 41

• accuaracy could be improved by pin pointing exact sites to record the environmental quality data
• the environmental quality score is quite subjective so ensuring one person from each group does the assessing reduces bias
• by returning at a different time of day and year would increase reliability