8.2 relationships and connections

• Sheffield - Kelham island

  • former cutlery manufacturer and industries
  • now a museum
  • ex-industrial areas have been repurposed for modern uses and local businesses are supported
  • long history of pubs providing refreshment to the people who worked in steel works and factories and now there are many such as the fat cat
  • used industrial revolution and deindustrialisation to evolve into its present
  • aesthetic - artwork, mix of old and new buildings
• external forces:

  • government policies
  • decisions of multinational corporations
  • impacts of global or international institutions
• government policies:

  • directly affect the demographic characteristics e.g one child policy in China
  • cultural characteristics, controlling immigration e.g German government invited Turkish people to live and work in Germany
  • government fund schemes at regenerating towns e.g Hulme city challenge = increase population, created jobs and reduced unemployment
• decisions of multinational corporation:

  • Decisions of TNC's can have major impact on the demographic, social and economic characteristics of places. e.g detroit massive economic boost, altered demographic by attracting large number of migrants
  • TNC's closed down or relocated to cheaper labour - massive population decline, hige reductions in employment and social deprivation
• impacts of international or global institutions:

  • world food programme provides food assistance
  • wold bank that invests in and helps set up thousands of projects aimed to reduce poverty