Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Changing Settlements in the UK
- Multiple Deprivation
- Lacking adequate food, shelter, education and health care. It is a measure which takes into account different
measures of deprivation and produces an overall rating.
- Inner city areas usually have the highest multiple deprivation rating.
- Comparing Rural Lifestyles
- Scottish Highlands
- Limited Congestion
- Pollution
- Picturesque Landscape
- Distance to commute
- Weather problems
- Snow/Extreme Weather
- East Anglia
- Good for commuting
- Job Opportunities
- Well paid
- Stressful
- Future Urban Sprawl
- Traffic Congestion
- Impacts of the Housing demand in the UK
- Rebranding Liverpool
- Why?
- To re-image the local area and make it a better place to live for the local
people.
- To remove derelict buildings
- In the 1980s Liverpool experienced economic and social deprivation along with high levels of crime.
- After 1960’s the had been affected by industrial decline
- Benefits
- The removal of derelict warehousing will
mean new housing will occur this will bring
in new jobs and a new image for run down
areas, this will allow more tourism to enter
the city.
- With the area being re-branded more companies would
want to invest in the area such as: leisure and dining,
cinema and café’s.
- Night life - clubs, entertainment and comedy
- Derelict warehousing will be replaced with new housing built upon Brownfield sites, meaning no more harm
to the land.
- Settlement Functions
- Port - the original function of cities such as Liverpool and Southampton. Both are still ports, but this function
has diminished in importance and they are now multifunctional.
- Market town - Watford was originally a market town, and although it still holds a regular market, it is now a
thriving multifunctional centre.
- Resort - Southport was a popular Victorian
seaside resort, although it now has many
functions and is a commuter settlement for
Liverpool.
- the Eden Project, in stimulating growth in the rural economy and arresting
outmigration.
- Opened in 2001
- Built in the bottom of an old clay pit, it has transformed local area and environment
- Two 'biomes'
- Over £150 million earned to surrounding region
- Secured 200 local jobs