Urban regeneration

Afzol Ahmed Candidate number: 4012 Centre ID: 13212 Introduction * Sequence of investigation Page 3 * Purpose of Study Page 4 * Identify the location Page 5 * About Stratford City Page 8 * Brownfield Site Page 9 Data Collection (Method) * Nature of information and data required Page 10 * Method table Page 11 * Survey Page 14 * Survey method explained Page 15 * Group interview with project directors... Page 17 * Environmental quality index explained Page 20 * Traffic Survey explained Page 22 Data analysis and presentation * Survey Page 23 * Environmental Quality index Page 39 * Traffic Survey Page 42 Conclusion) Page 43 Sequence of investigation: I have created the flow chart below to show a rough outline of the steps I will take in order to carry out my investigations. Investigating the impact of Stratford city redevelopment Purpose of study: As a class, we have decided to base our hypotheses for our GCSE Geography coursework on the development of Stratford City.

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  • Level: GCSE
  • Subject: Geography
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Windsor Coursework

INTRODUCTION My project is about Windsor, it is to find out if it is a good or bad tourist attraction. My main aims are to find out: . If Windsor is a successful tourist centre? 2. Is there any conflict of interest between residents and tourists? 3. What is being done to resolve any conflict? Tourism is a tertiary segment of the working industry. A tourist is someone that travels in their country or around the world. There has been an increase in tourism worldwide, this is because of: More leisure time: the older population has increased and the when they retire they use up their leisure time by going on holiday. * Shorter working time: the number of hours an employee has to work has decreased over years. * Longer holidays with pay: it is now casual for employees to be given holidays with paid accommodation and flight tickets. * More money: salaries paid to employees have increased significantly alongside with paid holidays has given the possibility to go on holidays more than once. * Greater accessibility: the increase of transport via planes, ferries and cars have enabled more people to travel easily. The benefits of tourism is that there are more jobs available, more money is spent by the tourists which makes the area richer and the area can maintain and preserve historic sites and keep the area clean. However, there are many disadvantages of tourism. Residents

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  • Level: GCSE
  • Subject: Geography
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why did so many people die in the kobe earthquake

"Why did so many people die in the Kobe earthquake?" Kobe is located 32 kilometres west of Osaka on the Japanese island of Honshu. It lies on three plates; the Pacific, the Philippine and the Eurasian. This puts the whole of Japan in danger of having an earthquake. It has a population of 1.5 million and is one of the largest and busiest ports in Japan. Kobe is an important city for business, tourism, shipbuilding, and for manufacturing steel, rubber, and textiles. The Kobe earthquake occurred on 17th January 1995 at 5:46 in the morning before rush hour. The earthquake was measured on the Richter scale of 7.2and it lasted for 20 seconds. During this time the ground was moved 18cm horizontally and 12cm vertically. The earthquake occurred because the epicentre was on Awaji Island in Osaka Bay which is very close to Kobe. Plus, because of the three crustal plates, convection currents caused Philippine Plate and the Eurasian Plate to move towards each other. As they move, the denser oceanic Philippines Plate is being subducted beneath the lighter continental Eurasian Plate, the two plates rubs against each other producing friction and heat resulting from the two plates colliding. As a result the ground shakes making an earthquake. People were not aware and did not expect the earthquake to happen as Kobe is not in the earthquake zone. To predict an earthquake is very expensive.

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  • Level: GCSE
  • Subject: Geography
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Why did so many people die in the Kobe earthquake?

Kobe Earthquake In my essay I am trying to answer the question 'Why did so many people die in the Kobe earthquake?' The great earthquake that measured 7.2 on the Richter scale, struck Kobe at 5.40pm on Tuesday 17th January, 1995, the earthquake only lasted 20 seconds; however a lot of damage was caused. Southern Japan, where Kobe was located, is the world's largest container port and is also a very rich country. It is very technology advanced and often the first country to manufacture the most modern products. The earthquake caused a lot of destruction in this part and was nearly completely destroyed. Kobe has not had a major earthquake since 1596. Many people died because of their houses been so poorly built. Houses that were built before 1981 collapsed in the earthquake because the roofs were made of very heavy concrete tiles, and were wooden framed houses. These were very heavy so a lot of people would have died from suffocation, or from being crushed. These houses were not earthquake proof, so people that lived in these were in great danger. However, houses that were built after 1981, have been made earthquake proof, this means that they are adapted to earthquakes, have the latest technology and hopefully would not fall down whist there is an earthquake. These houses would have been more recently built and made with stronger material. A familiar story is of the Endo

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  • Level: GCSE
  • Subject: Geography
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