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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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