Main question

How might re-imaging and regenerating urban areas affect their social and economic characteristics?

Questions

Draw an annotated sketch map of the satellite image on Resource A to show examples of regeneration in Cardiff Bay.

Outline the arguments in the report from the BBC website on Resource B which are critical of schemes put into place over the last 30 years to re-image and regenerate Cardiff Docks.

Give an example of ‘conflicting perceptions’ in response to a scheme that re-images and regenerates an urban place. (See Resource C and D).

Explain why re-imaging and regeneration has an effect on the social and economic characteristics of urban places.

Resource A

A satellite image showing the location of the Waterfront Park and the Britannia Park – namely the area, in Cardiff docks, where the Dolffin Quay scheme was planned.

Source: Google Maps https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4626774,-3.1626157,482m/data=!3m1!1e3
Resource B

A report on the BBC website (August 2017) asking the question ‘Cardiff Bay : What has 30 years of development achieved?'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40681940
Resource C

At the start of 2017 Associated British Ports proposed to develop an area close to the Waterfront and Britannia Parks, through building 200 flats in a 24 storey tower. The company ‘The Urbanists: Planning and Design’ were appointed to produce a townscape design for the scheme.

‘Original links disappeared from the Web - see below a nearly as good link -

https://businessnewswales.com/plans-launched-dolffin-quay-new-cardiff-bay-waterfront-shops-restaurants/
Resource D

At the beginning of November, 2017 the developers withdrew the Dolffin Quay plan – the resource below includes responses from people who opposed the scheme. The name of their campaign changed from ‘saveourbae’ to ‘savedourbay’.

https://twitter.com/saveourbae