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Geography Case studies

Louisa Roskilly English

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Theme 1 CHALLENGES OF LIVING IN A BUILT ENVIRONMENT
- Variation in quality of life and access to housing.
  - Reading
    - Areas
      - Whitley
        semi-detached houses
        some density
        recreational ground
        outer city (council estate)
        0% owner occupied
        4% professionals
      - Abbey
        terraces
        no green space
        high density
        inner city
        33% owner occupied
        23% professionals
      - Tilehurst
        semi-detached houses
        not very dense
        parks, some fields
        suburbs
        70% owner occupied
        29% professionals
      - Mapledurham
        low density
        large expanses of green spaces
        detached houses
        rural-urban fringe
        81% owner occupied
        retired, families
- Access to services and changing service provision.
  - Basingstoke
    - Distribution of retail services
      - key words
        service
        something set up to meet peoples needs
        shop
        school
        range
        the furthest someone is willing to travel for a service
        catchment
        area in which customers of the service live
        threshold population
        number of customers needed before a service becomes worthwhile
        high order goods
        expensive, comparison shops, rings, TVs
        low order goods
        little price differences, convenience stores
    - Access to leisure
      - main roads
      - train station in centre
      - bus routes everywhere
- Planning issues in built environments
  - Flexistowe
    - largest container port in UK
    - coastal town
    - sustainable community
    - groups
      - STAG
        saving trimley against growth
        views
        build on brownfield
        aren't enough local services
        will lose village lifestyle
        value of properties go down
        high road busier
        traffic jams
      - SFC
        save felixstowe countryside
        views
        light pollution
        disruption to wildlife
        grade 2 agricultural land
        barrier between AOB and town
        high quality rural landscape
    - trimley st mary + trimley st martin
      - 1600 houses
  - 500,000 new houses to be built in east england by 2021
    - 58,000 needed in suffolk
    - 10,000+ needed in suffolk coastal district
- Urbanisation
  - Brazil-Pau Ferro (Caatinga) to Sao Paulo
    - Pau Ferro
      - push factors
        poor health care
        low rainfall
        drought zone bigger than UK
        large families
        dry zone
        only one main river
        stagnent water
        low wages
        poor education
        high death rate
        crops fail every 10 years
      - located...
        NE brazil
        in land
        west of Recife
    - Sao Paulo
      - located...
        SE brazil
        on the coast
        SW of rio de janeiro
      - pull factors
        jobs
        clean water
        more houses
        transport links
        more food
        better education
        no drought
        better health care
        better quality of life
        safer
        electricty
      - favelas
        positive
        education
        jobs
        community
        water
        shops
        negative
        sanitation
        desease
        handmade
        illegal
        no electricty
        solutions
        clear favelas
        site and service
        rehabilitation
        housing development
        charities
        transport
        industrial estates
  - Shrewsbury to Bishop's Castle
    - pull factors
      - quieter
      - safer
      - nicer environment
      - more wildlife
    - push factors
      - busy roads
      - no job orportunities
      - less leisure
      - expensive houses
    - Shropshire
      - shrewsbury
        big town
        96,000 people
      - bishop's castle
        small village
        1,5000 people
      - west england
      - bordering wales
- Rural change and planning issues.
  - Brecon Beacons
    - south wales
    - users
      - farmers
      - ramblers
      - horse riders
      - tourists
      - locals
    - stakeholders
      - NIMBY
      - government
      - locals
      - environmentalists
Theme 2 PHYSICAL PROCESSES AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- Pressure systems
  - Low
    - UK
    - air is rising
    - precipitation happens in front of the warm front and behind the cold front
    - anti-clockwise winds
    - warm and cold front
  - High
    - UK
    - Anticyclones
    - no precipitation
    - clockwise winds
    - descending air
    - clear skies
    - possible fog and frost
- Tropical storms
  - cyclone nargis
    - burma
    - asia
    - bay of bengal
    - no aid allowed into country
  - hurricane katrina
    - new orleans
    - america
    - superdome stadium
- Floods
- Drought
- River and coastal landforms
- Water management/water transfer
- Coastal processes/management

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