Unequal Spaces Flashcards
Give an example of the least deprived ward in Camden and say why:
FROGNAL/FITZJOHNS: • crime rate: 61.6/1000 • income support: 0.8/1000 • median house price: £900,000 • cars per household: 0.8
From ARC GIS what did you find out about Somers Town, Haverstock and St Pancras?
- They have the highest %age of house holds with unemployed parents in Camden
- They have the lowest incomes IMD (2010)
From ARC GIS what did you find out about Frognal/Fitzjohns, Hampstead and Belsize Park?
- They have the greatest incomes (2010)
2. They have the highest employment rates in Camden
Illustrate income inequalities with a “killer fact”:
The median household income in Frognal/Fitzjohns (£45,000) is more than TWICE that of St Pancras/Somers town
Illustrate house shortages in Camden with a “killer fact”:
Weekly rent for a 2 bedroom flat is 71% of median weekly income in Camden!
Illustrate life expectancy with a “killer fact”:
There is a 11 year difference between male life exp. in Somers town and Hampstead
Show some management strategies to dealing with housing in Camden (Georgia Gould):
• ~300 new housing application/month
= new bedroom standard (family +1
Show a management strategy to deal with Fuel poverty in Camden (Georgia Gould):
• 8.9% of camden in fuel poverty
= Affordable warmth services: 600
From Primary Fieldwork which wards in Camden are the most deprived?
ST. PANCRAS, SOMERS TOWN & BLOOMSBURY (scored lowest in):
- street cleanliness survey
- building survey
- accessibility (least amount of aid in place for impaired)
From your primary data/fieldwork which wards in Camden were least deprived?
FROGNAL, HAMPSTEAD, HIGHATE, BELSIZE (scored highest in):
• street cleanliness
• Building survey
• Burglaranility Index
How are the Camden Inequalities Taskforce going to improve education attainment?
- Increase participation (14-19)
- 7.4% of 14-19 yr olds=NEETS - Promote more work exp. and local partnerships: entrepreneurial curriculum
- Careers week in Primary schools - build good practice
How can Camden Inequalities Taskforce improve employment?
• female employment (25-44yrs) has increased by 45% since 2005
- increase side funding for childcare in long term
- develop target package of employment to increase maternal employment
Give 2 strategies to reducing housing inequalities in Camden:
- high social housing
- community/shared ownership of housing
- lower rents
What does the Camden inequalities Taskforce not directly addressed?
- the needs of the disabled
* health related issues (although good health = decent homes = gain qualifications/jobs
What features characterise deprivation?
- tends to be multi-faces and interlinked: • Low income/employment levels • poor access to services • leads to social marginalisation - no silver bullet solution
Why does rural deprivation exist?
- gov.s/policies (SSSI) prevent development e.g housing, transport
- urban deprivation is more visible and concentrated than rural deprivation so easier to tackle
What is the difference between the price of a detached house in Camden and E.Sussex?
x56!!!
What is a hidden problem?
An issue that is not required to be looked at by the government as it can’t be measured so no evidence
Example of hidden problems in rural areas:
- elderly - no access to healthcare
- the homeless
- lack of broadband (wifi) or mobile phone access(3G)
- people without a mode of transport/car
- those lacking appropriate skills/education
By how much/week are rural families more worse off than urban?
£46 - £76
Way do Market forces struggle struggle in Rural areas?
- lower levels of demand = higher costs of delivery = market failure
- companies not interested in investing
- economies of scale disappear
- distance decay
- centralised located services-financial cost=user
What does distance decay mean?
The further away you live the less likely you are to try and get it
Describe the elderly population in East Sussex:
2nd highest proportion of over 85s in the country
Give 2 examples of rurally deprived towns in E.Sussex:
- Ouse Valley
2. Camber
What can you not the IMD?
- how a population became deprived
- what problems they face (hidden problems)
- how many are affected
Illustrate difference in education between rich and poor in rural areas:
Children from poor homes are nearly a year behind, before they start and school and are 2 years behind by age 14
Solutions to deal with education gap:
- Gov. Focuses on quality of teaching
- Targets schools in socio-economic disadvantage based on IMD
- Hackney ~£8500 per student/ Camden ~£7000 per student
Explain why farmers have such a high suicide rate:
- low farming incomes (paid between £8000-£12,600/year=NOTHING)
- strain of severe flooding
- (foot and mouth) disease
- strained relationships
- poor health
Solutions to UK upland farmers:
- Diversification - grow other crops
- Intensification = machinery
- Farm diversification: (paint balling centres/music festivals/horse trekking/B&Bs/ Deer hunting)
Quantify the digital divide in Britain:
- 1 in 4 adults have never used the Internet : 50% without Internet are the lowest socioeconomic groups in UK
- £560 amount digital excluded households miss out on for not shopping on line.
Who are disadvantaged by not having access to Internet?
- Disabled
- Old
- Unemployed
- Homeless
What are the problems with rural transport?
- unreliable/inadequate
- expensive
- rare
- forces car ownership - environment is polluted
- fuel prices are discriminatory
Solutions to rural transport inequalities:
•Llandiloes - N.Whales:
Community has a car club (shared) - 33 people 4 cars (saved £2000 each)
• Dial-a-bus (sustainable visitor transport)
What is Gordon Brown’s quote for Managing urban inequalities:
“Equality of opportunity and fairness of outcome”
What did oxfam report about the share of the 1%ers?
Just 85 people owned as much as the poorest half of humanity. Gone down to 66!!
What is the income of top 1% households per week:
£3000
How many bankers in the UK were paid over a million(€1,000,000) in 2012?
2714
Name atleast 3 management strategies to dealing with urban inequalities:
- Congestion Charge
- Oyster cards
- Urban Regeneration project (urban splash)
- “Pub in a Hub”
- CCTV
How many CCTV cameras are the in the UK?
4.2 million
How did ‘pub in a hub’ come about?
• local Partnership solution:
- ERIC PICKLES (stakeholder) announced £150,000 to boost great British Pubs
How has the congestion charge affect UK Transport?
- journey times reduced by 14%
* CO2 levels have fallen 20%
What is the average distance from a shop in East Sussex?
7km
What %age of E.Sussex have long term illnesses?
20%
Illustrate the life expectancy difference in East Sussex:
Men in Brighton and Hove (affluent) will live ~10 years longer than those in most deprived areas.
Give an example of a district with over 30% of the population being over 65 Yrs old:
Rother and Arun
Which town has the lowest wages in the whole of the UK?
Cornwall
What type of distribution illustrated the amount of wealth the wealth have over the rest of the UK?
Champagne-glass distribution
What is the opposite view “equality of opportunity and opportunity of outcome?
Equality of outcome
Give 2 examples of the most deprived areas in Camden:
ST. PANCRAS/SOMERS TOWN
• claimant rate of income support=5.1
HOLBORN
•crime rate = ~400/1000
