Urban Sprawl Improvement Flashcards
Regenration
Rebuilding old areas by adding new services, jobs and housing. Better transport snd e-commerce.
Rebranding
Changing name and theme from area through marketing. Improve image of company
Regenration of docklands
-used to be abandonded and ruined land
-was set up for regenration 1981
- new finance centre, airport and transport built
- today docklands one of global financial hib (canary wharf)
Positive of regenration
-Creates 9000 new homes, 50% into housing companies-affordable housing
- urban wasteland of lea valley described as ecologically dead-now full of life and improved
-‘open to public’ sports centre
- startford most connected station in London, 9 different links
- 12k jobs created
-10 football picthes of wild flowers
Nehatives of regenration
-largest property rise in Newham out of any London borough
- traditional businesses shut down for wealthier people
-old communities break doen
-rental costs increasingly shot up
London sustainability
-2012-hybrid buses, fuel sufficient
-2020 reduce waste by 10% by reuse waste and recycling
- providing more green space and affordable housing
- people work at hom 1-2 day.
- Bedzed- use 81% less energy for heating, 46% less electricity, 58% less water qnd 60% reycle waste