UDCs

• What are UDCs?

  urban development corporations
• what were UDCs responsible for?

  regenerating inner city areas with large amounts of derelict/vacant land
• What were the UDC boards made up of?

  people from the local business community . they were encouraged to spend public money on land, infrastructure and marketing
• what was the intention of UDCs?

  to attract private investment 4 or 5 times greater than the public money spent
• how many UDCs were created?

  13
• give an example of an UDC?

  urban dockland corporation
• give 4 examples of features of the london dockland development corporation?

  • Docklands railway. 7.5 miles of track. 16 trains per hour
  • Airport created
  • city expands eastwards
  • rebirth- create a community environment
• give 2 reasons why the london docklands corporation was a SUCCESS?

  • Effective at attracting new businesses into run down areas
  • created 190,000 jobs nationally (MANY PEOPLE NOT TRAINED TO DO THESE JOBS)
• Give 2 reasons why the london docklands corporation was a failure?

  Local communities had little investment

  Amount of employment was inadequate

  little was done to tackle social problems
• what is a paradigm change?

  a complete shift!