Inequalities and Place Perception
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- Inequalities and Place Perception
- Perception
- Affects how people engage with a place
- Varies between individuals
- Measuring Success
- High levels of employment
- Output levels
- In-migration
- Quality of life
- Low levels of deprivation
- Successful Places
- Self-sustained as more people and investment are drawn to opportunities
- Popular places can cause overheated property prices, skills shortages, congestion of roads and public transport
- Younger People
- Enjoy fast pace of life
- Enjoy the range of opportunities
- Retirees
- Slower place of life
- Pleasant climate
- Sheltered accommodation
- Good access to healthcare
- Urban Places
- Success is due to market forces or government-led regeneration policies
- Low income earners feel disadvantages in successful places due to cost of living
- Skill shortages
- Southern Areas Benefits
- Weekly earnings
- Weather
- Health
- Life expectancy
- Northern Areas Benefits
- Education
- Good Grades
- Smaller classes
- Lower house prices
- Lower traffic flows
- Lower population density
- Education
- Rural Places
- Growing fast
- Lower rates of unemployment
- Higher-value food
- In-migration of young families, commuters and retirees
- Transport and technology has developed
- Less Successful Urban and Rural Places
- Urban Decline
- Former industrial towns see an unemployment rate double the average
- High street shops are empty
- Lack of spending power
- Reinventor cities
- Changed their economic base
- Encouraged IT and digital media
- Higher wages
- Graduate workers
- New businesses
- Changed their economic base
- Replicator cities
- Replaced cotton mills with call centres
- Higher share of workers with low qualifications
- Large amount of benefit claimers
- Rural Decline
- Faster ageing population
- Out-migration of young people
- Pockets of deprivation
- Urban Decline
- Social Consequences of Inequality
- Reduced
- Trust in people with positions of power
- Police
- Planners
- Social and civic participation
- Educational attainment and training
- Social mobility
- Attachment to a place
- Trust in people with positions of power
- Increased
- Segregation of different socio-economic groups
- Property damage
- Violent crime
- Health issues
- Higher infant mortality
- Shorter longevity
- Reduced
- Rust Belt
- Concentration of problems associated with the loss of core employment
- Derelict buildings
- Concentration of problems associated with the loss of core employment
- Social Segregation and Residential Sorting
- Low-income households seek lower-cost housing
- High income groups cluster together
- Gentrifity
- Priorities of Regeneration
- Sink estates and declining rural settlements need regeneration
- Sink Estates
- Segregation of low-income groups who need social assistance
- Council houses were built to improve living conditions for poor people
- Gated Communities
- Whole cities have been walled and gated
- Fortress-type architecture in regenerated inner-city locations
- Wealthier residents have a secure building, perimeter wall or fence
- Built to segregate the incomers from the locals
- Commuter Villages
- Areas that are linked to high-speed railways
- Affluent populations and low levels of deprivation
- Commuters may not demand local shops, schools or bus services
- Perception
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