Topic 4 - Regenerating Places: EQ1 Flashcards
What is a Place?
Geographical spaces shaped by individuals and communities over time
What is the Rural-Urban continuum?
The unbroken transition from sparsely populated or unpopulated, remote rural places to densely populated, intensively used urban places
What are the 5 economic sectors?
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
Quinary
What is an example of the primary sector
Extraction of raw material
What is an example of the secondary sector
Manufacturing and processing
What is an example of the tertiary sector?
Services (e.g. Police)
What is an example of the quaternary sector?
Technology based jobs
What is an example of the Quinary sector?
Management/consultancy
What are the different employee types?
Informal vs Formal employment
Self employed vs Employee
Temporary vs Permanent
What is the Clark-Fisher Model?
A graph showing how economic sectors vary in a place depending on its industrial stage (Pre-industrial, Industrial, Post-industrial)
Kingston annual income?
£35,000
Hackney average income?
£29,500
What are the 2 case studies for EQ1?
Hackney
Kingston
Kingston and Hackney % in very good health?
Kingston: 65
Hackney: 42.5
Has has Kingston functions changed over time?
Started off in the 12th century as a agricultural town and manufacturing pottery.
Then change to an industrial town with more roads and rail communications
Factories were shut down and turned into a town with retail stores
How has housing changed in Kingston?
Increase in housing for family’s due to the population expected to reach more than 200,000 by 2029 and needing houses for there new people moving in
How has public spaces changed in Kingston?
The ancient market is being regenerated to increase trading prospects and improve its attractiveness for businesses. Its function is still staying the same but is just being regenerated
How has transport changed in Kingston?
Improvement for how traffic is managed and the traffic flows around the town centre is releasing space around the Ancient market
Who determines the functions of a place?
Determined by the type of people who live there are many influences on their life
What is demographic characteristics?
The people who live in an area; their age and ethnicity
Why do places change over time?
The places where people live reshape and reconfigure them to meet the shifting needs and priorities. The function, shape and land use pattern are determined by the types of people that move in to that area
What is the second case study?
The London docklands
Where is the docklands?
They are near London and next to the River Thames. SW England
What change led to the decline of the London docklands
- the ships became too big to fit in the docks due to containerisation
- Goods began to be transported by air as it was quicker and faster to travel and the food was more likely to stay fresh
- the Docklands was damaged a lot by the war and was bombed very badly which causes it to have major damage to it
What are the reasons for the changes in the London Docklands?
Economic growth with new high-rise office buildings which now bring more jobs
Transport as the accessibility and how connected the documents are made it easy for it to be regenerated
Growing population and housing
What is the remaining problems in the docklands
Those in poor health are often unable to work and want to keep low cost social housing. This has caused high deprivation in Newham. Tower Hamlets had the lowest average life expectancy
How can function and demographic characteristics changes be measured?
Land use change
Employment trends
Demographic changes
Levels of Deprivation
Census data
YouTube and DVDs
How has regional influences shaped Hackney?
There are four London overground tube stations in Hackney.
There are leisure places, pubs, restaurants, Lido which allow for a wide range of people to use
How has national influencers shaped Hackney?
Hackney has a labour government in power and this influence is where money is spent.
Emerging crossrail hotspots in East London has led to house price growth
How has international influencers shaped Hackney?
£1 billion was invested from the EU to build thousands of affordable homes in London, including Hackney.
Hackney is twinned with a place in South Africa
Hackney is culturally diverse
How has global influences shaped Hackney?
International connections are available with high broadband speeds in the area.
Many global brands have set up shops in Hackney such as Nike and UGG
How have regional influencers shaped Kingston?
Kingston has great public transport systems with many buses trains and boats.
Trains to London.
Kingston is near to cities such as London and Richmond and Wimbledon.
Many leisure centres
How has National influencers shaped Kingston?
In 2022 Kingston elected the liberal democrats
Rich sense of community shared across Kingston and has a large Korean population.
Kingston is known for a mediaeval market town
How has international influencers shaped Kingston?
Kingston has been twined with a place in Germany since 2010.
The EU has invested £12.8 million to support educational sports projects.
High diversity in religion and ethnicity
How has global influences shaped Kingston?
Kingston has very fast broadband speed which allow people to connect all over the globe
Many global brands are there such as Apple, Zara, Nike
What is super diversity?
High immigration levels and cities often bring together political and minority influences
What is sociology-economic conflicts?
Mixed racial tensions and other civil rights issues and LGBTQ movement can cause areas to adopt a new identity
What is the history of Hackney?
First settlement relate back to Saxon times.
Industrialisation took off in the late 18 century
Industry began to relocate after the second world war
Is now developed into a popular town
what is Kingston’s demographic like?
68.4% of people are 16 to 64
It has 70% white and 25% BAME
It has a 72.8% employment status
What is Hackney’s demographic?
25% are under 20
36.2% white and 11.7% Asian
19% of people employed work in the support services and 13% in the tech industry
