Portmouth Case Study

• Physical factors that changed the areas function


  Ports was changed and allowed tourism with little manufacturing

  Can travel to Spain, France and Canary Islands

  £35.6 million spinnaker tower(highest viewing tower outside of London)
• Historical development that changed the areas function


  Industry changed from ship manufacturing to tourism

  Old buildings and ships maintained

  Was a Royal Naval Base
• National planning that changed the areas function


  Became a national tourism port with shops and casinos
• Accessibility that changed the areas function


  Direct train to Cardiff

  Train to London

  Road, trains, bus
• Problems caused by the regeneration in Gunwharf Keys


  -people are forced out of their homes as they can't afford new houses

  -city centre is barron and isn't being developed

  -gentrification
• positives of the regeneration


  -people still feel a sense of place: keeping the history, spinnaker tower colours

  -new big shops aren't allowed to compete with the twin center shops
• When was the area regenerated?

  1990s and opened in the 2000s
• Gentrification


  A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.
• Before and after regeneration

  Used to make 200 ships a year now only 70

  Used to have 30,000 jobs now only 10,000