HOW HAS THE NATURE OF DOCKLAND REDEVELOPMENT CHANGED?– CASE STUDY, LIVERPOOL.

The detailed visual resources in this activity allow

a virtual field trip investigation.

WJEC A Level Geography specification statements / Resources in this folder / Suggested activity
AS G2 Theme 2 – Investigating Settlement Change in MEDCs
2.3 What are the
issues of the
inner city?
The reasons why regeneration is considered
appropriate including deindustrialisation, dereliction,
wasteland and social exclusion and global economic
changes.
Evaluation of the success of regeneration schemes in
social, economic and environmental terms.
A2 G4 Sustainable cities
4.3 What attempts have been
made to find sustainable
solutions to problems
faced by cities?
Strategies to deal with
transport and communications;
disparities in wealth;
areal extent;
quality of environment. / Introduction
Introduction- Teachers’ guidelines file provides the activities and teacher prompt summaries of concepts and aims of waterfront regeneration.
Introduction - starter activity provides the cartoons and headings for the starter activity / Introduction to some redevelopment concepts
Class discussion from whiteboard
1. Match cartoon to correct phrases.
2.Discussion of aims of waterfront regeneration.
Overview
Liverpool - Background Contains sections on
  1. History of the docks
  2. Merseyside Development Corporation
  3. Tourism in Liverpool
  4. Population change
  5. Web links
Liverpool Docks tour.
The home page aerial photograph contains red dots which activate text, photographs and videos of the different types of regeneration in the various docks. There are also videos and photographs of the whole dockland area on this page. / Overview
Student Activity
Read, absorb and think about the questions posed in the background information on:
The history of the docks;
Merseyside Development Corporation;
Tourism.
Draw a line graph to show population change in Liverpool.
In Liverpool-Background it is argued that Dockland is the focal point of Liverpool.
The scale of dockland redevelopment in Liverpool is vast. Twelve distinct areas of regeneration can be identified.These date from 1981 to future plans.
Student Activity
Use the aerial photograph on the home page in the Liverpool Docks tour, to draw a sketch map to locate Liverpool Docklands.Use an atlas to locate Liverpool docklands within the region.
Annotate the map with the names of docks. Use the titles of the individual dock files to add the date of development and the type of regeneration for each dock.
Evaluation:
The resources for the 12 sites, with further discussion points indicated, are, from S to N:
  • Garden Festival site – development or Nature Reserve?
  • Herculaneum Dock – use of interesting space.
  • Brunswick Industrial site
  • Coburg Quay – Gentrification
  • Customs and Excise
  • Kings Dock
  • Albert Dock - Changing age focus
  • Pier Head – Preservation society
  • Princes Dock – Preservation society
  • Trafalgar Dock - future planning issues
  • Waterloo warehouse
  • Stanley Dock
Printable worksheets on which to describe and analyse each development are found in the file Impacts of redevelopment –evaluation sheet.
Two Excel files are available to complete further surveys.
Quality of environment survey and
Bipolar survey / Evaluation
Student Activity
Evaluate the impact of each development and compare the different types of regeneration
For each dock click on the name on the aerial photo, Liverpool Docks tour. Use the information found in each file, which may be in the form of text, photographs, video, interviews, or planning documents, to:
  1. evaluate the impact –complete the Impacts of redevelopment –evaluation sheet for each dock
  2. complete a quality of environment Excel file Quality of environment survey
  3. complete a bipolar survey Excel file Bipolar survey
for each dock development.
At the end of the text information for some of docks there is a ‘Discussion points’ section to highlight issues particular to that development.
The list of developments are arranged geographically S to N on the drop down menu. You may like to start with Pier Head which is the historical centre of Liverpool docks.
Student Activity
Conclusions
Bring together your data, description and analysis to answer the question – What are the reasons for the regeneration of Liverpool Dockland? Evaluateof the success of the regeneration schemes in
social, economic and environmental terms.
Further investigation may help your answer. Research relevant web links given in
Liverpool –Background