Changing Spaces; Making Places 1. What’s in a place?

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  • What’s in a place?
    • Lympstone (Exeter) - Case study
      • Charac-teristics
        • Demographic
          • Top heavy age structure
          • Little ethnic diversity
        • Political
          • 11 elected people serving on local government body
          • Powers relatively limited as district (east Devon) and county (Devon) councils exist above Lympstone
        • Natural
          • Small valley cut by Wotton Brook at Exe estuary
          • Tidal mudflats, and small beach of pebbles and gravel
        • Built
          • Low-rder shops closed, being converted into residences
          • Housing constructed on cliff-tops
        • Cultural
          • Standard Christian year, with Easter and Christmas
        • Socio-economic
          • Much lower car availability, and more people per house
          • Lower rent on social and private
      • Connections
        • Past
          • Saxons established Lympstone, forcing Celtics out
          • French families took over in Norman invasion
          • 13th century, small port town for Exeter
          • Shipbuilding city in the 19th century
          • Railroad in 1861 - Time-space compression
        • Present
          • Dormitory settlement for Exeter
      • Shifting flows of resources and ideas
        • Large knowledge economy - 1/3 employed residents are managers, directors, senior officials or in professional occupations
    • Toxteth (Liverpool) - Case study
      • Charac-teristics
        • Demographic
          • Very ethnically diverse
          • Mainly aged 16-64
        • Political
          • Riverside Ward, one of 30 wards in Liverpool City Council, each ward has 3 councillors
          • Has powers like education, children's services, regeneration, housing, and sustainability
        • Natural
          • Land rising up from banks of River Mersey
          • Stream flows from NE, dividing in 2, discharging into river
        • Socio-economic
          • Higher rate of rent on social and private
          • Much higher car availability, and less people per house
        • Cultural
          • Muslim festivals like Eid and Ramadan
          • Many different styles of Christian worship, different from English
        • Built
          • Mosques and ethnic retailers
      • Connections
        • Past
          • Saxons established settlement in Toxeth
          • Taken by French in Norman invasion
          • 13th century became royal hunting ground
          • Farming land in the 16th century
          • Industrial revolution, several forges
          • Ship-building / dockyard
          • Lots of property development
        • Present
          • Inner City suburb
      • Shifting flows of resources and ideas
        • Loss of employment in docks + manufacturing
        • Poverty rise - Toxteth riots in 1981

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