Regeneration Key Terms

key terms

Accessibility

How easy it is to travel to a place or interact with an individual.

Agriculture Based Regeneration

The focus of regeneration is to help local farms produce extra revenue such as creating farm shops, building the reputation of local produce and starting local farm attractions (maze mazes, muddy assault courses, tractor trailer rides etc.)

Amenity Value

The value of a resource to locals and businesses (beaches, timber, coal).

Built Enviroment

The buildings and infrastructure within an urban area.

Capital

Productive assets, goods or financial stakes.

Central Business District (CBD)

The centre of a city, containing a high density of businesses and TNC headquarters.

Council Estate

Consisting only of social housing, with tenants on subsidised rent.

Counter Urbanisation

An increase in the proportion of a population living within rural areas, due to migration from urban to rural regions.

Cultural Enrichment

The addition of ideas, traditions and beliefs due to the arrival of new people.

Cultural Erosion

The loss of a culture, resulting in a change in ideas or disregard for traditions.

Culture

The way of life of a particular group of people at a particular time, generally customs and beliefs.

Degeneration

The decline of a region over time, due to insufficient funds, outward migration and declining quality of life for residents.

Deindustrialisation

A reduction in industrial capacity, leading to social and economic change within a region.

Demographic

The characteristics of a population.

Deprivation

Individuals’ lack basic services or objects they would expect to have in the 21st Century.

Dereliction

The loss of industry or productivity of a land, leaving it abandoned.

Diversity

Variation within a population, in their characteristics, background and behaviour.

Elite Migrants

Migration due to an individual’s wealth or status, often investing in the host country through investment visas, property or business.

Environmental Impact Assessment

The study of environmental impacts caused by large business projects.

Enviromental Regenration

The focus of regeneration is to restore and maintain natural environments such as woodlands, beaches and national parks.

Ethnicity

The cultural background of a group of people, often based on religion or country of origin.

Gated Communities

Urban neighbourhoods surrounded by gates often to improve privacy and safety. They can add to segregation within a community.

Gentrification

Renovation of older/deteriorating buildings or areas with the aim of attracting high-income individuals or elite businesses to a place.

Governance

The management of a place or group of people.

Hard Regeneration

Construction of new buildings and infrastructure and investment within a region.

Idyll

A location with ideal living conditions and good qualities. Often based on a perception.

Inequality

Differences in income, well-being and wealth between individuals, communities and society.

Internal Migration

The movement of people within a country.

International Migration

The movement of people from one country to another.

Leisure-led Regeneration

The focus of regeneration is to attract tourists or improve the social quality of life (sports & activities, attractions, etc.).

Life-cycle Stage

The change in opinions and values at different stages of an individual’s life.

Life Expectancy

The average number of years an individual is likely to live, determined at birth.

Lived Experience

The contribution of experiences and opportunities to an individual’s views and values.

Media

The publishing of information and production of entertainment (e.g. BBC, local newspapers, radio stations).

Multicultural

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

Perception

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

Political Engagement

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

Pressure Group

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

Population Density

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

Rebranding

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

Regional Disparity

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

Reimaging

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

Rural Decline

The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.

Rural-urban Continuum

A range of living spaces running from remotest peripheral rural villages to the CBD of the city.

Segregation

The separation of a group from other groups this can be through force or voluntarily. Segregation can often occur due to housing strategies or regeneration projects.

Sink Estates

Council estates that score badly on the Index of Multiple Deprivation.

Spiral Decline

Stages of rural decline that contribute to a positive feedback loop, with more and more outward migration and increasingly declining services.

Culture-led Regeneration

The focus of regeneration is to enhance historic or cultural attractions of an area such as opening stately homes and building a reputation based on famous residents (Wordsworth country, Beatrix Potter in the Lake District, etc).

Stakeholder

An individual with interest and influence within their community (residents, local businesses, farmers, NGOs).

Social Clustering

Groups of people with similar background frequently living together.

Social Exclusion

The inability of a group of people to become involved in the cultural activities of a place.

Soft Regeneration

Investing in the skills and education of the population to improve their own quality of life.

Urbanisation

An increase in the proportion of a population living within urban areas.

Urban Resurgence

Also known as re-urbanisation, urban resurgence is the movement of people back to an area which was previously in decline. This influx of people and investment further improves the social, economic and environmental conditions of urban areas.

Regional Aid

A state aid exemption under which aid can be granted in certain circumstances as a proportion of the costs needed for a new commercial project

Grants to encourage businesses to relocate

Enterpirse zone

A geographical area that has been granted special tax breaks, regulatory exemptions, or other public assistance in order to encourage private economic development and job creation

Post-production countryside

Rural areas that no longer make most of their income from food production and other primary sector employment