Your revision powerpoints

I was impressed by the concentration and effort you put into producing these today - well done! Use them to recap what we talked about during the lesson.

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The role of MNCs in the industrial development of NICs

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Revision time is upon us ...

Hopefully you have all recovered from the Ireland trip! Now, however, our thoughts need to turn to revision as your exam is on Tuesday 20th May. -not far off!

This is an electronic copy of a revision booklet you will recieve in Tuesday's lesson (it seems to have got slightly muddled up during uploading, but it's all there). Don't waste loads of paper by printing it off - I have already done that for you! Just have a read ...

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Economic Activity homeworks

We have no lessons for ages now; next week we are in Ireland (!!) and then it is the two week break. Therefore, you need to complete a number of homework activities before our next lesson on Tuesday 22nd April.

1. Complete the mind map you started in the lesson - this needs to be very detailed and you will therefore need to read the articles I gave you.
2. Complete the exam questions I gave you.
3. Read the notes about Newly Industrialising Countries (NICs)
4. Produce a case study about a Multinational Corportaion (MNC) e.g. Ford, General Motors etc. You might want to read P250-251 in your textbook to help you with this.

Changing patterns of retail

Learning Objectives Part 1:
•To identify the theoretical sphere of influence of Derby using Reilly’s Law of Retail Gravitation.
•To identify the actual sphere of influence of Derby using fieldwork data.
•To evaluate the similarities and differences between the actual and theoretical sphere of influence.
•To suggest reasons for any differences.

Learning Objectives Part 2:
Be able to describe and explain how and why patterns of retailing have changed in an area of the UK you have studied. Case study: Manchester / Trafford Centre.

Homework activities DUE TUESDAY 18th MARCH
January 2004 exam questions:
(ii) Referring to Figure 4, suggest reasons why the theoretical sphere of influence around Buckingham is irregular in shape (3)
(iii) Suggest reasons why people might shop in a central place such as Buckingham even if they live outside the theoretical sphere of influence (3)

January 2005 exam question:
Referring to an area in the UK, explain why patterns of retailing have changed in recent years (7).

Brownfield or Greenfield?

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You need to:

Be able to explain why there is demand for new housing in the UK

Understand the issues faced over using both brown and greenfield sites for the development of new housing

Homework

Read the Geofile article given out in the lesson.

Answer questions:

i) Examine the issues regarding the use of brownfield sites for additional housing in a town or city in the UK (7)

ii) There are plans to extend existing rural settlements and to create new villages within southeast England before 2016. Examine the issues considered by decision makers when selecting sites for such new developments (7)

Additional reading - remember you should be doing 4 hours of study for each of your subjects. Are you?

Guardian article: Housing demand - The issue explained

Environment Agency statament about the use of brownfield sites

BBC Bitesize overview - it's designed for GCSE, but a concise place to start

Reurbanisation - your powerpoints

Thank you to everyone who has e-mailed me their presentations - you can now view them all here:

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Reurbanisation

Reurbanisation
What is reurbanisation?
What are the causes of reurbanisation?
Be able to give a detailed case study of regeneration in the UK
What is gentrification and how is it connected to reurbanisation?

Choose from one of the case studies below and produce a detailed powerpoint presentation which answers the questions above.
You should also use Live Maps to produce a map of the case study you choose e.g. My example A really good website here that I got some of my info from.

General resources
AS Geography textbook P208-210
Regeneration through culture article
Urban regeneration article

Bristol
S-Cool

Manchester
AS Level Geography P211
GeoActive article - Salford Quays - Inner City Renewal
Issues and Environments textbook P62-63

London Docklands
Key Geography for GCSE P168-169
Issues and Environments textbook P58-59


Thames Gateway
Geofile Online article: Thames Gateway

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Suburbanisation of villages

Make sure that you completed all of the activities from the lesson on Tuesday, especially if you missed part of it for revision.

Activities from lesson
1. Read P207 and answer all of the questions about Urchfont, Wiltshire
2. Read P212 and make notes (including diagrams)
3. P213 - copy diagram showing patterns of land use in suburbanised villages

Homework activity
Complete exam questions about counter-urbanisation and the suburbanisation of villages.

Relocation, relocation ...

Phil and Kirstie do counterurbanisation... (in fact, a new series starts tomorrow night!)

Aims from today's lesson

•Be able to define counterurbanisation
•Know the difference between counterurbanisation and suburbanisation
•Understand the causes and consequences of changes over time in settlements at the rural-urban fringe.

Counterurbanisation is the process of migration of people from major urban areas into smaller settlements and rural areas.

It is different from suburbanisation because there is a distinct gap between the urban settlements and the settlement people move into.

Causes of counterurbanisation

1. Negative urban factors

~ air pollution, dirt, crime levels, high house prices etc

2. Positive rural factors

~ pleasant, clean environment with more space, access to countryside, 'lifestyle' (think Escape to the Country), possible lower house prices.

3. Socio-economic factors

~ greater affluence, greater car ownership, improved public services in rural areas and the decentralisation of jobs

4. Allowed / encouraged by

~ greater personal mobility, demand for second homes because of rising affluence, retirement, shorter working week, relative decline in agriculture leading to sale of farm buildings and land for building new homes.

Consequences of counterurbanisation

These can be both positive and negative and the consequences vary according to distance from the major urban settlement. Settlements at the rural-urban fringe tend to experience growth whilst more remote settlements tend to experience decline.

Effects on layout

~ modern housing estates built on edge of settlements

~ small industrial units built on main roads

~ open areas built on

~ old and agricultural properties converted / modernised

Effects on services

~ local services may close down, be altered or grow depending on location of the settlement.

Other effects

~ tension between locals and newcomers

~ house price increase (locals unable to afford higher prices)

~ newcomers have the wealth, mobility and desire to continue to use urban services so even in settlements where population is growing, services may still close

~ settlements become 'dormitory villages' - empty during the day when commuters are at work

Homework activities

Read 2 articles about the effects of second home ownership on rural settlements.

Answer the exam question (refer to the markscheme provided!) below: