Edexcel A-Level Geography 9GE0
Tectonic Processes and Hazards
Glaciated Landscapes and ChangeLandscape
Coastal Landscapes and ChangeLandscape
Globalisation
Regenerating PlacesPlaces
Diverse PlacesPlaces
The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity
The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security
Superpowers
Health, Human Rights and InterventionConnections
Migration, Identity and SovereigntyConnections
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.
Check the Pearson Edexcel specification ↗The 24 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Economic classification and variation from place to placeThe primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors, part-time, temporary and self-employed work, how health, life expectancy and education vary with economic activity between places, why pay differs by sector and type of employment and how that shows in quality of life, and mapping place data with GIS.Open →
- The functions of a place and why they changeRecall questions on administrative, commercial, retail and industrial functions, gentrification, and what drives change.Open →
- Measuring place change and deprivationRecall questions on employment, demographic and land-use data, the deprivation domains, and the Index of Multiple Deprivation.Open →
- Past and present connections shaping economic and social characteristicsGlobal, international, national and regional influences on places, the growing role of TNCs and IGOs, informal representations against formal statistics, how continuity and change in economic and social characteristics affect people, cultural erosion against cultural enrichment, past and present connections, and social media as evidence of how residents see their area.Open →
- Economic and social inequalities changing perceptions of areasSuccessful regions such as Palo Alto and Silicon Valley with high employment, in-migration and low deprivation but high property prices and skill shortages, the spiral of decline triggered by economic restructuring in regions such as the Rust Belt and its education, health, crime, service and living environment dimensions, and why perceptions of the need for regeneration vary.Open →
- Lived experience, attachment and conflict over placeRecall questions on how age, ethnicity, gender, length of residence and deprivation shape attachment, and on where conflict arises.Open →
- Evidence, representations, Spearman's rank and significance testingScatter graphs, lines of best fit and Spearman's rank correlation for judging the need for regeneration, from ranking to the formula and interpreting the coefficient, null hypotheses, significance at the 0.05 level, critical values and degrees of freedom, why correlation is not causation, and how newspapers, music, photography, film, art and literature represent a place.Open →
- Measures of dispersion: range, interquartile range and standard deviationDispersion diagrams and what a measure of dispersion shows, the range, interquartile range and standard deviation with a worked example on pebble lengths, and when standard deviation is more useful than the interquartile range.Open →
- Successful regions and the spiral of declineThe inward migration and low deprivation that mark successful regions such as Palo Alto and Silicon Valley, and the rising education deprivation, crime, reduced access to services and deteriorating living environment of the spiral of decline, with the Rust Belt as the example.Open →
- Perceptions of the need for regenerationWhy perceptions of the need for regeneration vary, election turnout and community groups as measures of engagement, how ethnicity, deprivation and length of residence shape lived experience and attachment, why inequalities and lack of representation divide views on regeneration priorities, and newspapers, art and literature as sources.Open →
- National planning, transport and funding decisionsHow national planning, transport connectivity and central funding decide which places are regenerated and create spatial inequalities, devolution to regional and local authorities, Enterprise Zones and their tax and planning incentives, housing policy schemes, and the effect of austerity on local authority capacity.Open →
- National policy: Levelling Up, house-building targets and foreign investmentNational planning designations, immigration policy, Local Enterprise Partnerships replacing Regional Development Agencies, public-private partnerships, Levelling Up from 2019 to 2024, skills policy and planning permission, retail-led regeneration and its risks, house-building targets and the conflict they cause, and the deregulation of capital markets and foreign investment in London property.Open →
- Local government incentives and inward investmentLocal government investment in infrastructure, business rate relief and inward investment, Local Enterprise Partnerships, enterprise zone incentives such as simplified planning, business rate discounts and enhanced capital allowances, planning decisions, land designation, development permissions and conditions, and inward investment from TNCs and national regeneration funds.Open →
- What attracts investment, and the multiplier effectWhat attracts private developers and inward investment, including infrastructure, workforce skills, accessibility and competitive incentive packages, the race to the bottom between local authorities, how investment triggers multiplier effects through supply chains and local spending, and job creation, housing, environmental improvement and community facilities as regeneration priorities.Open →
- Local interest groups and tourism, sport and rural regenerationChambers of Commerce, preservation societies and trade unions in regeneration decisions, London 2012 and sport-led regeneration and its legacy, tourism-led regeneration in Margate, and rural diversification through partnerships such as the Powys Regeneration Partnership.Open →
- Rebranding to change public perception of placesWhat rebranding is and how it differs from regeneration, the residents, investors, businesses and visitors it targets, visual identity, marketing campaigns and positive narratives, why the promoted image must match lived experience, when rebranding is contested, informal representations that contrast with it, and how its success is measured.Open →
- Rebranding deindustrialised cities and rural areasRebranding as a way to change public perception of places through the media, deindustrialised cities building on industrial heritage with Glasgow's 'Scotland with Style' as an example, rural rebranding through literary heritage in Brontë country around Haworth, farm diversification and outdoor pursuits at Kielder Forest, and discursive and creative sources for studying it.Open →
- Economic, social and environmental measures of successEconomic measures of regeneration success such as employment, earnings, business growth and poverty, absolute against relative change and spatial comparison, social measures including health, education, crime, deprivation, inequalities, demographic change and life expectancy, and environmental measures such as air quality, green space and reduced derelict land.Open →
- Deprivation domains and demographic changeThe income, employment, health, crime and living environment domains of multiple deprivation indices, age structure, ethnic composition and population change as demographic indicators, the reuse of derelict land, sectoral shifts, full-time and permanent employment, and quality of life indices as measures of regeneration.Open →
- How different stakeholders judge regenerationWhy stakeholders judge the same regeneration differently, how age, ethnicity, gender, length of residence and deprivation shape lived experience of it, election turnout, community groups and attachment as social measures, formal against informal representations, property prices and in-migration, and photographs, maps, blogs and social media as evidence.Open →
- Urban stakeholders and their criteria for successWhy urban stakeholders judge regeneration by different criteria, with Salford Quays as the example urban case study, NIMBYism in contested decisions, economic, demographic and environmental variables, why future success depends on past decisions, and the criteria of local and national government, businesses and residents, shaped by what the place means to them.Open →
- Urban regeneration: reality, image and contested decisionsThe criteria local and national government, businesses and residents use to judge urban regeneration, how lived experience and the meaning of a place shape them, impacts on the reality against the image of a place, Salford Quays as the example, NIMBYism, economic, social, demographic and environmental variables, and why decisions are contested and reported differently.Open →
- Rural stakeholders and their criteria for successWhy rural stakeholders disagree about regeneration success, with the North Antrim coast as the example rural case study, economic, social, demographic and environmental variables, the criteria of local government, businesses and residents, the reality against the image of a place, how residents and tourists judge it differently, and blogs and social media as evidence.Open →
- Rural regeneration: reality, image and contested decisionsRural regeneration strategies and why decisions over them are contested, with the North Antrim coast as the example, economic, social, demographic and environmental variables, why past decisions matter, the criteria of local and national government, businesses and residents, and how the reality and image of a rural place can change separately and be judged differently.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
Why is social media worth reading when studying how residents feel about their own area?
What is the primary sector of economic activity?
How does part-time employment differ from full-time employment as a classification of economic activity?
How can accessibility and connectedness explain changes in a place?
What type of information can oral histories reveal about a place that statistics cannot?
In what ways do national influences affect the economic and social characteristics of places?
How does crime feature as a dimension of social deprivation in deindustrialised areas?
What is one quantitative measure that can be used to assess levels of community engagement in a local area?
Explain how different representations of a place can influence whether people perceive regeneration as necessary.
How does support for local community groups reflect community engagement?
What would occur if central government consistently prioritised regeneration funding for one region over another?
How have austerity measures affected local authority capacity to lead regeneration?
What bodies replaced Regional Development Agencies in coordinating regeneration at sub-national level?
Define the Levelling Up policy as a UK government regeneration approach.
What were Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs)?
Why might competition between local authorities for inward investment be problematic?
Why might environmental improvement be prioritised in a regeneration strategy?
If a rebranding campaign promotes a city as vibrant and prosperous but residents experience high unemployment, what problem arises?
How might changes in GCSE results or university progression rates indicate social regeneration success?
How can gender affect lived experience of regeneration?
What negative consequence might rising property prices reveal about regeneration?
What demographic changes can be measured to assess how a place has changed?
What characterises employment levels in successful regions such as Palo Alto and Silicon Valley?
What statistical test can be used to measure the strength of relationships between variables when evaluating the need for regeneration?
After ranking paired data, what must be calculated next in Spearman's rank correlation?
What type of migration characterises successful regions?
Name a region that exemplifies success through high employment, inward migration, and low deprivation.
How can election turnout be used to measure community engagement?
How can local government directly invest in infrastructure to support regeneration?
What is rebranding in the context of place regeneration?
What economic indicator measures the expansion of commercial activity in a regenerated area?
What does the income deprivation domain of a multiple deprivation index measure?
What aspect of wellbeing does the health deprivation domain of a multiple deprivation index assess?
What is the secondary sector of economic activity?
Define the commercial function of a place.
Why are levels of deprivation useful for measuring change in places?
How do global influences shape the economic and social characteristics of places?
What type of internal population movement is characteristic of successful regions like Silicon Valley?
Besides election turnout, what other indicator can be used to measure community engagement levels?
What does a Spearman's rank correlation coefficient of +1 indicate?
Eight pebble lengths (mm) are 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7 and 9. What are the range and the interquartile range?
Eight pebble lengths (mm) are 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7 and 9. What is the standard deviation?
When is standard deviation more useful than the interquartile range?
How does crime relate to the spiral of decline?
Do all local communities share the same attitudes towards engagement and regeneration?
What three priorities does national planning policy typically set to shape regeneration in targeted regions?
What three types of area designation can national planning use to guide regeneration?
How do simplified planning regulations function as an enterprise zone incentive?
What attracts private developers to invest in regenerating areas?
What role do local preservation societies play in regeneration decisions?
What role do trade unions play in regeneration decisions?
What is rural diversification?
How does rebranding differ from regeneration (place making)?
What social measure would show whether regeneration has made an area safer?
Why is crime included as a domain in multiple deprivation indices?
How might age affect a person's lived experience of regeneration?
What is 'Brontë country' an example of in terms of rural rebranding?
Name a rural area that can be used as a case study for examining rural restructuring strategies and contested decisions within local communities.
What environmental variables can be used to evaluate rural regeneration strategies?
How might a long-term resident's lived experience influence their criteria for judging regeneration success?
What social variables might be used to assess the outcomes of urban regeneration strategies?
What does it mean to say that decisions about rural restructuring strategies are 'contested' within local communities?
Give three social variables that can be used to assess changes resulting from rural regeneration strategies.
Define rebranding in the context of place management.
What income-related measures can be used to assess the success of economic regeneration?
What employment measures indicate successful economic regeneration?
Why do different urban stakeholders have different criteria for judging regeneration success?
What economic variables can be used to judge changes from regeneration strategies in urban areas?
What role does media play in the rebranding process?
Why might economic regeneration measures show improvement in absolute terms but not in relative terms?
What demographic variables help judge the success of urban regeneration strategies?
Why do stakeholder views on regeneration success depend on changes to both the reality and image of a place?
What criteria might local government use to assess the success of urban regeneration?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Regenerating Places revision questions
- 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.
- How is Regenerating Places organised?
- By the Edexcel 9GE0 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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