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eq1 regenerating places - Coggle Diagram
eq1 regenerating places
contrasting area - wandsworth, south london
functions not changed as drastically as newham
wandsworth has always been fairly residential
19thC rural agricultural jobs - 76% population lived there worked in farming
utility/heavy industry left wandsworth - now thriving and successful small business economy
battersea power station and ram brewery now economically thriving area
retail/commercial - lots of residential nine elms developments - once brownfield sites
clapham junction - busiest station in europe
local area - newham, east london
functions - changed more than wandsworth
prior to mid-19thC newham dominated by argicultural jobs primary sector
1850's began to change - building of royal docks - the largest docks in the world at the time - moving from industry into secondary/industrial
start of 20thC - more machiney so fewer dock workers required - drastic unemployment - the deindustrialisation was so detrimental that the 1904 daily telegraph appeal collected money for the poor of west ham
neham's functions now - lots of regeneration - custom house in canning town - new housing schemes and services - commercial royal docks enterprise zone
retail - westfield
better transport connections globally - london City Airport, 2012 olympic games - influenced change the most
creation of tertiary services and jobs
global financial hub - canary wharf - drastic change from when newham dominated by primary/secondary sectors - schemes/improvements by administrations initiatives highlight evidence of this change
in the future newham's functions will continue to develop - new CBD silver town - cumulative causation stimulate new jobs+encouarge more investment to area - more regeneration
newham's demographic characteristics
changed more than wandsworth
greater diversity
1950's wave of immigration due to creation of docks
1851 - population west ham - 19,000 by 1901 - 265,000, 2020 - 250,000
community became more ethnically diverse with migrations from india, china, africa, and europe
2nd most diverse borough in london - 65% community non-white
1892 early union movement - keir hardie 1st labour mp was elected here - not changed - over last 5 elections have provided a majority for the labour party
gentrification along the river - private housing dominate as opposed to council housing
emerging middle class in east village (athletes village in the olympic games 2012) regeneration - stratford
2nd most deprived borough london
37% population in poverty
unemployment rate - 14% which is double that of london - in the years of deindustrialisation was at 20% not improved significantly
wandsworth demographic characteristics changed
gentrification, middle class, affluent area
professionals work in the city
younger families - nappy valley - one baby born every 25 minutes
always been not diverse and still the same - 78% population white
unemployment rate - 5.5% - always been low
one of the wealthiest boroughs in london
average property costs - £774,000