Changes in Characteristics and Functions
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- Created on: 28-08-17 15:05
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- Changes in Characteristics and Functions
- Functional Change
- Key functions are administrative, commercial, retail and industrial
- Specialist functions are banks, department stores, council offices and doctors surgeries
- Retail landscape has transformed due to online shopping, click-and-collect and banking
- Demographic Changes
- Age Structure
- Ethnic Composition
- 86% of people are white
- Gentrification
- Change in the social structure of a place when affluent people move into a location
- Planners allow developers to upgrade a place's characteristics, residential and retail to attract higher status residents
- Factors Affecting the Changing Characteristics of Places
- Physical
- Proximity to large cities and economic zones
- Attractiveness
- Accessibility
- Road, rail and air
- Investment and visitors
- Historical Development
- Primary production and manufacturing has ended
- Historic buildings
- Role of Planning by Governments and Other Stakeholders
- National government
- A "plan led" system
- Conservation area
- Policies limit new developments
- Central government intervention
- Local planning
- Centres on elected parish and city councils
- Image
- Physical
- Measuring Changes
- Land-use changes
- Employment trends
- Demographic changes
- Levels of deprivation
- Index of Multiple Deprivation
- Used to target regeneration aid
- There are pockets of deprivation
- Deprivation is concentrated in large urban areas
- Functional Change
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