Regeneration Key Terms 1

What is the Central Business District (CBD) in a city?

• The area of a city which is usually the hub of finance, services and retail

• The residential area of a city

• The industrial outskirts of a city

• The rural area surrounding a city

Which term is used when people lack basic necessities, often associated with poverty?

• Diversifying

• Deprivation

• Convergence

• Connectivity

How can connectivity impact a place's development?

• By causing industries to collapse

• By improving access to transport and broadband, making the area more attractive for business and residents

• By reducing the number of tourists

• By increasing deprivation

If a city experiences deindustrialisation, what is likely to happen?

• The manufacturing industry will grow

• The manufacturing industry will decline

• The service sector will decline

• The city will become more connected

What does gentrification refer to?

• A change in social status, whereby former working-class inner-city areas become occupied and renewed by the middle classes

• The movement of migrants into an area

• The improvement of an area based on market needs

• The process of farm diversification

What does inward migration mean?

• The movement of migrants into an area

• The movement of people out of an area

• The process of farm diversification

• The improvement of an area based on market needs

How does gentrification typically affect inner-city areas?

• It renews and occupies former working-class areas by the middle classes

• It increases the number of farms in the city

• It reduces the number of migrants entering the area

• It decreases the value of properties

What is match funding?

• Public-sector investment which aims to reduce the risks faced by new businesses by matching the capital raised by individual business people

• Funding which comes from private businesses

• Providing specialist services in finance and law

• A downward spiral where economic conditions produce less spending

What is private-sector investment?

• Funding which comes from private businesses

• Funding from the government

• Investment in rural areas

• Specialist services in finance

What does re-urbanisation refer to?

• A flow of people back into cities to live, reversing decades of population decline

• The decline of primary sector jobs

• The development of new industries

• The process of rebranding a place