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Cardiff Bay — re-urbanisation case study

GCSE · Geography · WJEC · C1.RU.1The urban–rural continuum, urbanisation and counter-urbanisation in the UK

Question

Question 4 (6 marks)

Using a named UK example, explain how re-urbanisation has changed an inner-city area.

Mark scheme (AO1 + AO3, 6 marks):

  • Named area: Cardiff Bay (Butetown/Tiger Bay) or another valid UK inner-city regeneration (1 mark)
  • Context: formerly derelict Victorian docklands — decline followed loss of coal export trade (1 mark)
  • Regeneration: Cardiff Bay Development Corporation (1987–2000); barrage built; Mermaid Quay; Wales Millennium Centre; Senedd (1–2 marks)
  • Positive outcomes: high-value residential, commercial and cultural development; jobs created; international profile raised (1 mark)
  • Gentrification issue: original lower-income community partly displaced as house prices rose; reduced affordable housing in the area (1–2 marks)

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