Bourneville, Birmingham
The past process of development at Bourneville as influence to socio economic characteristics now. Bourneville village was a garden village created by the Cadbury family as a place for its workers. The area had been instilled with the family’s values of no drinking; hence corner shops are banned as well as the sale of alcohol. This values still exist to this day but was broken in 2018. Due to the past connection’s association with the Cadbury family, are home in the village as a high demand for it with an entire waiting list just for viewing it. As a result, the high property prices mean that older people are only able to afford it, which has impacted the demographics of the area. Also, due to the older demographics are limited in terms of the use of technology heads traditional forms of activity still exist like gardening.
Liverpool
Another way the past processes of development can affect a place can be seen in Liverpool. During the 80s and 90s, as part of Margaret Thatcher’s free market policies led to the government abandoning the coal miners which led to strikes taking place across the city. The strikes were soon transformed into riots and protests which were heavily reported in the media. As a result, outsiders soon had a negative perception around the city of Liverpool.
Therefore, soon after the protests had calmed down, the city wanted to change this perspective hence during the regeneration policies that were implemented, there were significant levels of investment into the dockyards which similar to the London Docklands so private sector investment into the construction of tool skyscrapers filled with offices. As a result, the area had slowly become a place associated with corporate success like Canary Wharf. Simultaneously, The Beatles rock band had reached international fame so had become a large part of Liverpool’s identity. as a compromise to this change of identity, the councils had converted a warehouse into a museum which serves as a place memory in order to preserve the past identity of Liverpool for insiders. All of this paid off when Liverpool in 2008 won the European capital City of Culture.