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- 1Give examples of key functions of settlements.Administrative, commercial, retail and industrial
- 2Historically, what type of services are considered high order, and where are these most likely to be found?High order - specialist functions such as banks, department stores, council offices and doctors surgeries - located in larger settlements.
- 3What type of services are low order, and where are these likely to be found?Low order - more wide spread such as grocery stores, post boxes and pubs - located in all sized settlements.
- 4What impact has the internet and broadband services had on landscapes produced by commercial functions?They have changed consumer habits. This has resulted in rapid changes in the landscapes that these commercial functions have produced. The retail landscape has transformed itself in the past decade with online shopping, 'click and collect' and banking affecting city high streets.
- 5What might regeneration seek to do and why?To counteract 'cloning' of land uses and encourage specific place identities to attract customers back.
- 6In rural settings, what might pubs now double up as?community centres, post offices and village shops.
- 7In both cities and in converted redundant farm buildings, what have sprung up?small industrial units servicing light manufacturing, often high tech, have sprung up.
- 8What type of businesses have there been a rise in nationally?small business
- 9Functional areas are often different from administrative areas. What does this create problems with?This causes data comparison issues as well as obvious planning problems. E.g. London and Leeds have much wider economic functional roles than their immediate administrative boundaries.
- 10What evidence is there from the 2011 census of immigration and an increasingly multicultural society in the UK?- England and Wales - 86% of people are classed as having white ethnicity (91% in 2011).
- On average the population grew by 7.3%, but by 9% in urban areas and only 2.5% in rural areas. - 11Where are there more elderly and people born in the UK? Give evidence.- Rural areas have a higher elderly population (median age of 45 years, urban areas 37 years), more born in the UK (95%) and lower unemployment rates than in urban areas.
- 12Where are unemployment rates lower, and where has seen an increase in unemployment? Why?Been a rise in youth unemployment in affluent areas such as Witney and Winchester because of less graduate employment.
- 13How might a population pyramid for an inner city area differ from one fr a rural region? Why?- In rural areas there is a higher % of elderly than urban areas as more people my be retiring to more rural or coastal areas.
- More younger people in urban areas due to high population of migrants and students.
- greater % of babies born in urban areas due to proportion of economic migrants of child bearing age. - 14What is gentrification?It is the change in the social structure of a place when affluent people move into a location.
- 15Why might planners allow developers to upgrade a place's characteristics (both residential and retail)/to deliberately attract people of a higher social status and income
- 16Give some views and examples of gentrification?Portland road, Notting Hill, London: Victorian slums are now sold for multi-million prices.
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