Birmingham

• give 3 causes of urban resurgence in BIRMINGHAM?

  • Industrial depression
  • closure of manufacturing
• give characteristics of urban resurgence in birmingham?

  in the 2000s former warehouses became houses and apartments

  Canal area has bars and restaurants
• give 2 impacts of urban resurgence in birmingham?

  influx of employment opportunities

  increase in attractive living accommodation
• What led to a sharp decline in the area's fortunes?

  bombing of the area during the Blitz
• Where is the BIRMINGHAM MINT REDEVELOPMENT?

  Found on the edge of the jewellery quarter in Birminghmam
• how was the birmingham mint redevelopment carried out?

  the former minting factory converted into flats with many of its traditional features still intact
• Give another example of urban resurgence in Birmingham ?

  In the Gas Street Basin Canal area (once the hub of thriving canal heavy goods transport)

  Today the canals have been cleaned up and are part of an attractive area where bars and restaurants line the waterways and traditional narrowboats navigate past large art complexes