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Regenerating Places

  • 24 subtopics
  • 75 things to know
  • Paper 2
  • Shaping Places option, one of two

What Regenerating Places covers

Covers why places change and what is done about it: how a place's economy and function shift, how deprivation is measured, why residents see the same place differently, and how regeneration is funded, delivered and judged.

Where it is assessed

Paper 2

Human Geography. Optional content is not drawn on by the synoptic paper.

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The 24 subtopics

Each one has its own page.

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

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Key term

Why might historical development explain changes in a place over time?

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Why is social media worth reading when studying how residents feel about their own area?

Process

What is the primary sector of economic activity?

Numbers

How does part-time employment differ from full-time employment as a classification of economic activity?

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How can accessibility and connectedness explain changes in a place?

Process

What type of information can oral histories reveal about a place that statistics cannot?

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In what ways do national influences affect the economic and social characteristics of places?

Process

How does crime feature as a dimension of social deprivation in deindustrialised areas?

Evaluation

What is one quantitative measure that can be used to assess levels of community engagement in a local area?

Evaluation

Explain how different representations of a place can influence whether people perceive regeneration as necessary.

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How does support for local community groups reflect community engagement?

Evaluation

What would occur if central government consistently prioritised regeneration funding for one region over another?

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How have austerity measures affected local authority capacity to lead regeneration?

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What bodies replaced Regional Development Agencies in coordinating regeneration at sub-national level?

Evaluation

Define the Levelling Up policy as a UK government regeneration approach.

Evaluation

What were Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs)?

Evaluation

Why might competition between local authorities for inward investment be problematic?

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Why might environmental improvement be prioritised in a regeneration strategy?

Evaluation

If a rebranding campaign promotes a city as vibrant and prosperous but residents experience high unemployment, what problem arises?

Evaluation

How might changes in GCSE results or university progression rates indicate social regeneration success?

Evaluation

How can gender affect lived experience of regeneration?

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What negative consequence might rising property prices reveal about regeneration?

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What demographic changes can be measured to assess how a place has changed?

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What characterises employment levels in successful regions such as Palo Alto and Silicon Valley?

Evaluation

What statistical test can be used to measure the strength of relationships between variables when evaluating the need for regeneration?

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After ranking paired data, what must be calculated next in Spearman's rank correlation?

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What type of migration characterises successful regions?

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Name a region that exemplifies success through high employment, inward migration, and low deprivation.

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How can election turnout be used to measure community engagement?

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How can local government directly invest in infrastructure to support regeneration?

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What is rebranding in the context of place regeneration?

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What economic indicator measures the expansion of commercial activity in a regenerated area?

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What does the income deprivation domain of a multiple deprivation index measure?

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What aspect of wellbeing does the health deprivation domain of a multiple deprivation index assess?

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What is the secondary sector of economic activity?

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Define the commercial function of a place.

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Why are levels of deprivation useful for measuring change in places?

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How do global influences shape the economic and social characteristics of places?

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What type of internal population movement is characteristic of successful regions like Silicon Valley?

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Besides election turnout, what other indicator can be used to measure community engagement levels?

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What does a Spearman's rank correlation coefficient of +1 indicate?

Process

Eight pebble lengths (mm) are 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7 and 9. What are the range and the interquartile range?

Process

Eight pebble lengths (mm) are 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7 and 9. What is the standard deviation?

Process

When is standard deviation more useful than the interquartile range?

Key term

How does crime relate to the spiral of decline?

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Do all local communities share the same attitudes towards engagement and regeneration?

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What three priorities does national planning policy typically set to shape regeneration in targeted regions?

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What three types of area designation can national planning use to guide regeneration?

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How do simplified planning regulations function as an enterprise zone incentive?

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What attracts private developers to invest in regenerating areas?

Process

What role do local preservation societies play in regeneration decisions?

Process

What role do trade unions play in regeneration decisions?

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What is rural diversification?

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How does rebranding differ from regeneration (place making)?

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What social measure would show whether regeneration has made an area safer?

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Why is crime included as a domain in multiple deprivation indices?

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How might age affect a person's lived experience of regeneration?

Evaluation

What is 'Brontë country' an example of in terms of rural rebranding?

Evaluation

Name a rural area that can be used as a case study for examining rural restructuring strategies and contested decisions within local communities.

Evaluation

What environmental variables can be used to evaluate rural regeneration strategies?

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How might a long-term resident's lived experience influence their criteria for judging regeneration success?

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What social variables might be used to assess the outcomes of urban regeneration strategies?

Evaluation

What does it mean to say that decisions about rural restructuring strategies are 'contested' within local communities?

Evaluation

Give three social variables that can be used to assess changes resulting from rural regeneration strategies.

Key term

Define rebranding in the context of place management.

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What income-related measures can be used to assess the success of economic regeneration?

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What employment measures indicate successful economic regeneration?

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Why do different urban stakeholders have different criteria for judging regeneration success?

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What economic variables can be used to judge changes from regeneration strategies in urban areas?

Process

What role does media play in the rebranding process?

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Why might economic regeneration measures show improvement in absolute terms but not in relative terms?

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What demographic variables help judge the success of urban regeneration strategies?

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Why do stakeholder views on regeneration success depend on changes to both the reality and image of a place?

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What criteria might local government use to assess the success of urban regeneration?

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Name a case study that can be used to examine rural regeneration strategies and the specific approaches used to restructure an area.

Take Regenerating Places further

The same content, four other ways.

Commonly confused

Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.

  • Regeneration vs Rebranding

    Regeneration: long-term improvement of economic, social and environmental conditions. Rebranding: deliberate alteration of external perceptions of a place.

  • Endogenous factor vs Exogenous factor

    Endogenous factor: characteristic originating within a place. Exogenous factor: external influence shaping a place.

  • Gentrification vs Re-urbanisation

    Gentrification: inward investment and affluent migration changing a neighbourhood. Re-urbanisation: population movement back into previously declining urban areas.

Questions from this topic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    What is the primary sector of economic activity?

    Model answer

    The primary sector involves the extraction of raw materials directly from the earth or environment, such as agriculture, fishing, forestry and mining.

  2. 2

    What is the secondary sector of economic activity?

    Model answer

    The secondary sector involves manufacturing and processing raw materials into finished or semi-finished products, such as factories producing goods.

  3. 3

    What is the tertiary sector of economic activity?

    Model answer

    The tertiary sector involves the provision of services to consumers and businesses, such as retail, healthcare, education and transport.

  4. 4

    What is the quaternary sector of economic activity?

    Model answer

    The quaternary sector involves knowledge-based activities including research and development, information technology, consultancy and financial services.

  5. 5

    How does part-time employment differ from full-time employment as a classification of economic activity?

    Model answer

    Part-time employment involves working fewer hours per week than a standard full-time contract (in UK statistics, typically 30 hours or fewer), while full-time employment involves working a complete standard working week.

  6. 6

    How does temporary employment differ from permanent employment as a classification of economic activity?

    Model answer

    Temporary employment involves contracts with a fixed end date or for a specific project duration, while permanent employment involves open-ended contracts with no predetermined end date.

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What does Regenerating Places cover in Edexcel A-Level Geography?
24 subtopics: economic classification and variation from place to place, the functions of a place and why they change, measuring place change and deprivation, past and present connections shaping economic and social characteristics, economic and social inequalities changing perceptions of areas, lived experience, attachment and conflict over place, evidence, representations, spearman's rank and significance testing, measures of dispersion: range, interquartile range and standard deviation, successful regions and the spiral of decline, perceptions of the need for regeneration, national planning, transport and funding decisions, national policy: levelling up, house-building targets and foreign investment, local government incentives and inward investment, what attracts investment, and the multiplier effect, local interest groups and tourism, sport and rural regeneration, rebranding to change public perception of places, rebranding deindustrialised cities and rural areas, economic, social and environmental measures of success, deprivation domains and demographic change, how different stakeholders judge regeneration, urban stakeholders and their criteria for success, urban regeneration: reality, image and contested decisions, rural stakeholders and their criteria for success and rural regeneration: reality, image and contested decisions. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
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