Main question

What is the evidence that ‘gentrification’ is occurring in central urban places experiencing re-urbanisation?

• Resource A

  
  
  

  A photograph of the Development in the Tawe Basin, Swansea Docks, September 2012.

  
  

  Source Geograph : http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3131821

  © Copyright David Dixon and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

• Resource B

  
  

  Data from the 2011 census which shows the ‘Highest Qualification’ of the residents of Butetown and those of the residents of the city as a whole.

  
  

  Key
  Level 1: 1 – 4 GCSE or equivalent qualification.
  Level 2: 5 GCSE or equivalent qualification;
  Apprenticeships;
  Level 3: A levels or more – or equivalent qualifications;
  Level 4 or above: Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent qualification, and higher qualifications.
  Other qualifications including foreign qualifications.
  

  
  

  	Butetown - An area of gentrification in the inner city of Cardiff	Data for the city of Cardiff as a whole
  Residents 16+	8,839	283,115
  No qualification (percentage)	15.7	20.7
  Level 1	8.0	11.0
  Level 2	9.6	13.0
  Apprenticeships	1.3	2.8
  Level 3	10.2	15.2
  Level 4	49.4	32.3
  Other qualifications	5.8	5.0

  Includes information available under the terms of the Open Government License v3.0

  Source: https://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ENG/Your-Council/Have-your-say/Ask%20Cardiff%20Library/Cyfrifiad%20Butetown%20-%20Butetown%20Census.pdf

• Resource C

  
  

  Highest level of qualification - Wales Population

  
  
  

  Wales, 2011, Usual residents aged 16 and over

  Includes information available under the terms of the Open Government License v3.0

  Source: The Census – Office of National Statistics. estimates/bulletins/2011censuskeystatisticsforwales/2012-12-11#cymwysterau