Challenges created by urban change: environmental | Geography

Starter quiz

How many local authorities are in the Liverpool City Region?

4

5

6 ✓

7
Liverpool's population went into a steep decline between 1961 and 2001. What do we call the loss of people from a place?

repopulation

overpopulation

depopulation ✓

underpopulation
Match each local authority in the Liverpool City Region to its deprivation rank in England according to the 2019 Index of Multiple Deprivation.

Halton

⇔

23 ✓

Knowsley

⇔

2 ✓

Liverpool

⇔

3 ✓

Sefton

⇔

58 ✓

St. Helens

⇔

26 ✓

Wirral

⇔

42 ✓
Housing inequality is evident in the Liverpool City Region. Match the aspect of housing inequality to the fact.

access

⇔

13 000 people on the waiting list for social housing ✓

affordability

⇔

48% rent increase in five years ✓

quality

⇔

44 000 homes not meeting the 'decent homes standard' ✓
Inequality in the Liverpool City Region is __________ spread.

equally

unequally ✓

fairly

spatially
High deprivation often leads to...

low educational attainment and fewer employment opportunities. ✓

high educational attainment and better employment opportunities.

low educational attainment and no employment opportunities.

Liverpool's city centre docks moved out of the city in the 1970s to where?

The Wirral

Seaforth ✓

Sefton

Merseyside
How many brownfield sites has the Liverpool City Region identified?

4

40

400 ✓

4,000
What is the name of the greenfield site in Knowsley that was given permission to build 700 homes in 2019?

Halewood ✓

Halemount

Haledown

Halecrest
Greenfield sites may take longer to develop and be more costly as everything has to be ______ from scratch including road networks.

'built' ✓
Liverpool’s household waste recycling is the second lowest in England. What percentage of household waste in Liverpool is recycled?

15%

16%

17%

18% ✓
What percentage of household waste in Liverpool could be recycled?

65%

66%

67% ✓

68%

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Urban change has led to challenges with industrial and residential dereliction such as deterioration of buildings.
Urban change has led to challenges in the redevelopment of brown and greenfield sites to meet housing demand.
Urban change has led to challenges in waste disposal due to low rates of recycling.
The environmental challenges have been and continue to be addressed by the Liverpool City Region local authorities.

Greenfield sites are quicker and cheaper to develop as they have not been built on before.

Greenfield sites may take longer to develop and be more costly as everything has to be built from scratch including raod networks.

Dereliction - when a building or structure is abandoned and becomes dilapidated
Brownfield site - land that has been used and abandoned, mainly in urban areas that awaits redevelopment
Greenfield site - land, often rural or on the edges of urban areas, which has not been built on before