Why do places change?
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- Created on: 22-05-21 12:16
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- Why do places change?
- Physical factors
- Sea level rise and climate change is threatening the livelihood of agricultural workers due to rapid coastal erosion
- Towns like Shrewsbury are facing more frequent floods so have to invest in flood defences
- Climate change is beginning to shape policy, architecture and land use decisions
- Increasingly, farmland is being used to create large solar farms
- Greenwich Millenium Village in south east London uses innovative design, prioritises public transport and has space for an ecology park
- Flood defences in Blackpool have created more open space for tourist attractions and better acce** to the beach
- Acce**ibility and connectedne-**
- Development of motorway and rail networks has changed the importance of different towns around the UK
- Former major railway towns such as Crewe have declined since the development of motorways in the 1960s
- Increasing popularity of villages in E**ex and Kent for people who can't afford to live in London
- London's Thames Gateway redevelopme-nt has expanded eastwards
- Completion of the High Speed 1 railway line between London and the south coast
- The government wants to develop a Garden City of brownfield land in Ebbsfleet Valley because of rail connections to London
- Improved transport infrastructure has increased migration
- Regional airports e.g. Newcastle has allowed immigration from Eastern Europe
- Reinforces 'bridgeheader' communities established in the 2000s
- 2/3 of the UK now has acce** to fibre optic broadband
- The government has provided £530 million of funding for Broadband Delivery UK to extend broadband into rural areas
- Then upgrade to superfast fibre broadband
- Historical development
- Totnes has introduced the 'Transition Town' project to protect its local culture
- Grew as a bridging point on the banks of the River Dart
- The Totnes pound has allowed local busine**es along the Buttermilk Way to thrive
- St Mary's church and Totnes castle are cultural attractions
- Totnes has introduced the 'Transition Town' project to protect its local culture
- Local and national planning
- There has been a shortage of housing
- The 2010 National Infrastructure Plan designated towns like Bicester as new 'garden cities'
- Up to 13,000 new homes and a railway station
- A retail outlet on the edge of the town called Bicester village has already been expanded
- Rural villages can be absorbed by expanding urban areas
- Milton Keynes has absorbed towns and villages like Middleton and Stony Stratford
- The government is contemplating building an east-west rail link between Cambridge and Oxford
- This would cause increasing house prices and congestion in Bedfordshire and North Buckingham-shire (increased desirability)
- Other factors
- Globalisation has caused global shift
- Deindustrialisation e.g. shutting of Goodyear in Wolverhampton in 2015
- Migration
- Physical factors
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