In this Photo, it shows one of the ways how blackpool is rejuvenating itself.. with a new

shopping centre, which attracts tourists, and shopper-holics. The bright lights, open

design big windows, and other new additions, make it an ideal place to attract people

who are visting for the weekend, a day, or people who just want a coffee, or to browse

around the shops

This is another attempt to rejuvenate Blackpool. This very interesting use

 of architecture as it has to attract people, and withstand weather conditions,

and other types of forces that may affect it. At night time, this turns into a

light and sond show for the youths of Blackpool and attracts many people

who want to enjoy it. It Blackpool's night life, and get even more tourists

The Carteret Islands are found 85 miles to the north east of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They consist of six tiny islands around an volcanic lagoon which is 25 kilometres across.

After 200 years of occupation 2700 people now live on these islands, which are only 1.2 metres above sea level at their highest elevation.

The underwater volcano that the islands sit on is slowly subsiding. Unusually high tides, stronger waves and currents as well as more powerful storms are all making it unsustainable for the community to stay on the islands. There has already been two attempts to relocate the residents of the Carteret island to the mainland, where they will be safer, but these have not been successful and people are currently in the process of co-ordinating a third attempt.

The Papua New Guinean government has officially endorsed the evacuation of the Carteret islands and these islands are believed to be amongst the first to have to be abandoned, at least in part, because of climate change.

In sidmouth 3 types of coastal protection are used to help keep the sea from eroding away the Cliffside:

 Sea wall:

Advantages: sea walls are very effective and they protect the coastline and prevent
flooding.

 Disadvantages: Sea walls are very expensive to build and maintain, look very ugly on a beach and take lots of time to build as they are made out of concrete.

 Rock Amour:

 Advantages: They are cheap to build and can be blended into the landscape making them less noticeable that the groynes or sea wall.

 Disadvantages: They erode over time and can be displaced in a storm.

Groynes:

 Advantages: : They are effective at stopping long shore drift and save beaches from being destroyed and creating a spit.

Disadvantages They can be broken by big waves, and can rot as they are made of wood. they are aren’t very nice to look at and can sometimes go wrong where can just  build up behind them which makes it look unattractive.

 also on the 360 image of sidmouth to the north-east, part of the cliff has slidden due to it being soft rock and being saturated by water and also the weather. But this is hard to stop from happening as it is soft rock and is not affected by the sea much.

http://www.slideshare.net/guestd27e07/coastal-management-3282924

The Beddington Zero Development Project (BedZED) is the largest UK eco community project experimenting in sustainable living.  urban planners are experimenting with designing homes to cope with the temperature rise predicted by 2080 to shut out the summer heat, conserve water and minimise energy. BedZED comprises homes that have no central heating or air conditioning but instead make full use of natural heating and lighting.BedZED's heating requirements were 88% less than normal houses of that size so were very sustainable for the environment. Bedzed has its own eco-friendly single generator of electricity and is able to capture rainwater that is then used for flushing toilets.

 The apartments are finished to a high standard and face south to take advantage of solar gain. They are triple glazed and have high thermal insulation. Most rain water falling on the site is collected and reused so mains water consumption has been reduced by 67% compared to a power-shower household. Appliances are chosen to be water-efficient and use recycled water when possible.Hot-water consumption was 57% less than houses.

   The Building materials were selected from renewable or recycled sources within 35 miles of the site, to minimize the energy required for transportation.The development works in partnership with the United Kingdom's leading car-sharing operator. Residents are encouraged to use this environmentally friendly electric and liquefied-petroleum-gas cars, which have priority over cars that burn petrol and diesel, and electricity is provided in parking spaces for charging electric cars and the residents' car mileage is 65% less!

The electrical power used, at 3 kilowatt hours per person per day, was 25% less than the UK average; 11% of this was produced by solar panels. The remainder normally would be produced by a combined-heat-and-power plant fueled by wood chips, but the installation company's financial problems have delayed use of the plant.

Bedzed is the future of eco-friendly houses. By 2080 the world will be having do as much as they can to keep C02 emitions down and make there lifestyles as sustainable as they can. In the world we live in today things like electricity, clean water, a comforatable home and cars are taken for granted, soon all the fossil fuels will run out and the world we live in will change dramatically! bedzed is just the start of a new eco-friendly age!

By George Escott Em3

What is it?

In 1995, The Programa Favela Bairrio was launched in Rio de Janeiro as a self help scheme that seeks to develop shanty town slums into proud neighbourhoods. Most Children, once finished education are sent to work as tour guides for tourists going around the shanty towns. They get paid and is one of the main sources of work for young children as it can provide them with enough money to get food to survive.

How much is it and who pays for it?

The scheme cost more than $600 million which was supported financially by the IDB and national government.

Give some examples of infrastructure improvements:

Infrastructure improvements included the creation of essential services such as sewage systems, easily accessible water tapped in most places around each area, garbage removal so that the town doesn’t have rotting waste every corner you turn and making the shanty an unpleasant place to live and public lighting so that people can see at night and be safer on the load when it turns dark.  

Community projects included the relocation of families to bigger and better housing for the demolishing of their previous housing to make way for wider roads. They also created after school counselling and leadership programs. It also included the creation of parks and playgrounds so that children can play and have fun and enjoy the lives they have. Also public spaces and paved streets so that the community is a much nicer placer to see and visit.

Park and rides

Park and rides are not used regularly enough and we just drive past them without a second thought or glance. They just keep cars out of the main part of the city so that traffic can't  build up. But at the moment alot of people are instead parking their cars in big carkparks and mutli-story car parks so that their cars are inside the town and are easy to get to from the city centre wereas if you used a park and ride you would have to walkd around with your shopping and wait for the bus but the upside of that is there are less cars causing traffic jams and frustration, and less pollution for the planet! this could help global warming decrese making the planet a better place to live in.

Multy story car parks

The high streets of taunton are the most busiest parts because of the shops,banks,offices etc.People want to be as close to the high streets as possible but there are very few available car parking spaces around. But the ones that have spaces that are near the high street cost nearly twice as much as if you would of parked outside!. Firstly multi-story car parks cost half the price it would to keep your car on the main street, you would be able to park your car for twice as long for half the price!

Buses and Public Transport

Public transoprtation is a great way to save unessacery journeys through cities like London. We suffer from traffic in cities because we use our individual transport to get to places, but the more sensible option would be to use buses and trains. Also if more of the public used buses no traffic would occur on the main roads because the majority would be traveling all together making the most of vehcile space meaning less un-nessacery cars traveling on the road. which also decreases Co2 emmitions!

Walking

walking is a great way to keep fit and healthy, is decreses traffic by making more people not use their cars making the roads less compact and making them calmer. walking is a slow proccess but is the only none cost in anyway type of transportation. although the time difference is greater than in a car it's better for the environment and better for your body and wallet.

Bicycles

bicyle lanes will encourage more people to cycle to work and to town instead of driving or catching public transport. It also gives you exercise to keep you fit and healthy and prduces no Co2 emmitions and is free alsong as you have a bike. 

By george escott em3

1. Exeter was a small city as it has a cathedral but over the years has expanded and has become more popular. Since going through a stage of dereliction it has been regenerated and has a modernised feel especially around the new princess hay part of Exeter.

2. I think that urban redevelopment means when a city is redeveloped and changed. Older rural parts are becoming run down therefore need to be redeveloped. Over the years cities and towns like Exeter have changed considerably since the late 20th century, in 1979 Exeter was a nice place to go but as time passed by it lead to the shops become run down and old fashioned. The new shopping centre (princess hay) being built were the old shopping centre was. 

3. Thomas sharp from Exeter’s city council, decided to plan and build Princess Hay after it was bombed in the blitz. The main reason of why this was built was because of the mass amount of space left after the bombings. It was the perfect eye catcher to bring in victims from other parts of the country and get Exeter thriving with people and tourists again.    

     Sharp's plans called for urban renewal with modern buildings, wide pavements, pedestrian areas and views of the cathedral and conservation of the old Roman City Walls. In fact the council couldn't afford to carry out Sharp's plans, but part of the city centre was rebuilt along his guidelines, and the brand new shopping centre of Princess Hay was created. 

     I believe that it was a good choice to do something with the spare space but rejecting to restore the old buildings and derelict parts of Exeter was not because most of the history that was left in Exeter was the focused on the cathedral.

4. Some of the resident’s objections for the design and redevelopment of Princess Hay was because of their concerns of conservation being affected, congestion of population, traffic, increased crime and the effect on the listed/older building. and that you could use the space to build a big theatre showing west end type productions also some zoo's and aquariums for parents to attract allsorts of people from across the globe to see rare animals and fish which would make Exeter not just a city for shopping in.

5.

·     Mixed land use for example mixed land use with residential areas, a variety of buildings in business/residential/leisure and full filling tourist’s needs and maintaining the history of the area. Town planners increasingly encourage people to live in the CBD. This creates a 24 hour city, and maximises potential of valuable land space.

·     Conservation is where improvements occur when a building or project is changed/restored in this case and the improvements are compared with the old parts, so you preserve the natural environment

·     Revitalise is when you bring something back to life by making it newer or adding something to make it stand out and making it more of an exciting place to be.

·     Regeneration means to improve and compare differences to make the project (or in this case Princess Hay’s) a better and regenerated part of Exeter.

·     Sustainable urban redevelopment is when it must meet the social needs of people whilst conserving the environment and enhancing the local economy.

6. Princess Hay’s is definitely revitalized, especially the new/modern buildings which are shown on the virtual tour. Debhanams is one of the many big chain stores that has been revitalized as is noticed easily because it is updated/modernized. Also the new restaurants and cafes really show off as they provide fine dining/ eating and look fantastic too.

7. Princess Hay’s is a great example of sustainable redevelopment because it covers the main three components to make it successful. These are economic, environmental and social. The situation for the shopping centre (princess hay) is superb because it suits these topics well and the individual buildings there-self really make this clear too.