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10/20/24, 9:15 AMEdexcel A Level Geography Paper 2 Regeneration
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Terms in this set (71)
Primary - deals with direct use of natural resources
Secondary - deals with manufacturing
How can economies be classified? Tertiary - deals with complementary activities to primary and secondary such as
commerce
Quarternary - deals with information and services
Employment rate
What measurements are used for economic Obesity rates
activity? Life expectancy
Literacy rate
What is quality of life? How happy someone is with their daily life.
Healthcare
Natural environment
Built environment
Education
What are factors that affect quality of life?
Disposable income
Crime rates
Job opportunities
Air quality
What is inequality? One area having a better economy than the other
What is regeneration? Improving the quality of life in an area
Affluent people move into previously poor areas during regeneration - and change
What is gentrification?
the character of the area
Social and environmental changes caused by large numbers of students living in a
What is studentification?
particular area of a town or city.
When places' functions are not economically viable and levels of deprivation
How do place functions change overtime? decrease as a result - function is changed to make it able to live in again.
Eg deindustrialised towns regeneration
How can demographic characteristics Immigration, students moving in etc
change overtime?
What is a places function?
Edexcel A Level Geography PaperThe
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Types of place functions? Administrative, industrial, commercial, retail
Political inclination of local, regional, national authorities eg local council
Transport connections
How are places regionally, nationally and
Regional enterprise zones
globally influenced?
Immigration
TNCs
What are characteristics of an area? Demographic structure, employment structure, age structure etc
Used to be a hub for business in the 1960s with planning laws in Central London
prohibting skyscrapers pushing businesses like Nestle out to Croydon and building
headquarters there. But as time went on, infrastructure aged and poor planning
How has Croydon characteristics changed made it a bad area to live in, businesses moved out. But transport connections to the
city centre were developed and there were new services such as Whitgift Centre, led
to a lot of international and regional migration to the area making it a diverse place
to live in
Used to be a huge hub for tourism after the war and saw a lot of development such
How has Morecambe bay characteristics as Frontierland theme park. however, as international tourism started to become
changed available for people, Morecambe Bay shrunk (Butlers Model) and saw a lot less
tourism. Now it has high crime rates and deprivation especially in the West End.
Better regional and global transport links lead to more diverse and cultural
inclusivism means more interpretations to different problems but maybe also more
How have these changes in Croydon
discrimination
affected people's identity ?
However low national influence - government spending - means high poverty and
crime rates leading to a dangerous and crime-ridden perception
How have these changes in Morecambe Waning pride
Bay affected people's identity? Desparate for change and return to better economy.
What affects place perception? The function and characteristics of an area
Successfully changing the function and characteristics of an area to improve quality
What is successful regeneration?
of life
Good transport links
Huge amounts of new migrants
What are the characteristics of a
High labour productvitiy
successfully regenerated area?
High innovation
Huge TNCs moving in
Examples of successfully regenerated London Docklands
areas San Francisco
LDDC formed
How was the London Docklands Jubilee line extended to Canary Wharf, north Greenwich, Stratford
regenerated successfully Westfield Stratford introduced
Canary Wharf financial incentives
High salaries leads to inequality - HUGE amounts of homelessness in San Francisco
What might be some cons of San Francisco
because high earners push house prices up so much
and Canary Wharfs regeneration
Huge disparities in the borough of Tower Hamlets
A hard-to-stop loss of jobs, people and local tax revenues that leads to further
What is a spiral of decline?
losses and greater decline eg increased crime, worse housing etc
What are the characterisitcs of spiral of Dilapidation, emigration, closing factories, job losses, high crime
decline regions such as the Rust Belt
Fenced, security neighbouthoods with regeneration priorities that link to
What are gated communities? maintenance
Edexcel A Level Geography Papereg2Chelsea,
Regeneration
Westminster
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