Urban management and the challenges of continuity and change

Question 1

What are the challenges of continuity and change in urban management?

Answer 1

• overheating
• segregation and inequality

Question 2

What are the 5 main challenges for urban areas in the UK?

Answer 2

• rebalancing urban economies
• building new homes
• linking people and place
• living with finite resources
• characterisation of challenges

Question 3

Why is rebalancing the urban economy a challenge in urban areas?

Give examples

Answer 3

often big inequality between urban areas
- some excel, e.g. Cambridge
- some struggle e.g. Redcar
- links to N/S divide and decline of secondary industry

Question 4

Why is building new homes a challenge in urban areas?

Give examples

Answer 4

Where should new homes be built and for whom?
- there needs to be millions of houses built in the UK to keep up with demand

Question 5

Why is linking people and place a challenge in urban areas?

Give examples

Answer 5

43% UKs lowest income households do not have access to cars, so urban growth needs to be accompanied by adequate public transport
- transport systems in urban areas can be very old and not sufficint
- roads are not good enough and are often congested

e.g. Trams were abolished, but new tramways were developed in Blackpool and Manchester

Question 6

Why is living with finite resources a challenge in urban areas?

Give examples

Answer 6

City inhabitants use up to 75% world’s resources

Sustainable living challenge needs to adress
- sustainable housing
- energy
- waste management
- water and food supply

Question 7

Why is characterising challenges a challenge in urban areas?

Give examples

Answer 7

property development industry, investors and financial providers characterise city challenges differently as they can all make and consume money
- the fewer startup companies, the weaker the economy

different classifications for cities e.g.
- buoyant cities (London)
- stable cities (Leeds)
- struggling cities (Barnsley)

Question 8

Why are there challenges in areas where rebranding is absent or failed?

Answer 8

• areas continue to decline because businesses are attracted to other regenerated areas
• if there are no opportunities there is brain drain as educated young people move away for better opportunities
• leads to a spiral decline as no investment comes to the area