Issues in the inner city of liverpool
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- Issues in the Inner City of Liverpool
- Background
- West coast of England
- Major port
- Good location for trade with America and West Africa (Colonial times)
- Pop. grew rapidly C19th
- Emigrants left from here to America
- 2nd most important city in British Empire
- pop. peaked in 1937 - 850,000
- Since then the city has gone into decline
- Reasons for decline
- Dock outdated
- water too shallow for container ships
- off loading of ships used machines to lift so people became unemployment
- Mechanisation
- C20th trade with Europe more important
- Liverpool was not accessible
- Decline in manufacturing associated with ports
- Poor image for investors
- of abandoned docks, high unemployment, derelict buildings, failing pop.
- High crime in tower blocks
- 1980s- one of poorest cities in the UK
- Dock outdated
- Regeneration in Liverpool
- Conducted by Merseyside Development Corporation
- Funding: Central Government
- 1981-1998
- Aim: to create an environment that would be attractive to outside investors and halt the decline in pop numbers
- 1. International Garden Festival
- involved cleaning contaminated land in dock and building an exhibition park
- Displayed elements of past and present history
- Prestigious development
- Improved environmental impact
- No economic advantage
- 2. Albert Dock
- most ambitious
- Covers large parts of the old port
- Historical architecture of old dockside buildings
- Upper floors converted to expensive apartments
- £260,000
- Ground floor - variety of activities
- e.g. offices, recording studio, shops
- used to develop tourism
- e.g. art gallery, maritime museum, beetles expreience
- 6 million tourists
- 3. The Marina
- Middle class housing development
- Yacht club built- to attract middle class residents
- 4, The Queens Dock
- Modern office development
- provided a range of office jobs
- 5. Brunswick Dock
- Modern business park
- provide employment opportunites for local people
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