🖼️3.2.2.2 - Changing Places – Relationships, Connections, Meaning and Representation

Question 1

All places are…

Answer 1

…dynamic, not static, and socially constructed

Question 2

What do socially constructed links show?

Answer 2

How places function socially

Question 3

What are some forces of change?

Answer 3

National government
International institutions
Global institutions 
National institutions
Local governments
Individuals
TNCs
Local community groups

Question 4

What is an example of national government?

Answer 4

Parliament

Question 5

What are examples of international institutions?

Answer 5

Tata steel, Tesco, the EU

Question 6

What is an example of a global institution?

Answer 6

The WTO

Question 7

What is an example of a national institution?

Answer 7

The National Trust

Question 8

What are some examples of individual forces of change?

Answer 8

Activists
Aristocrats
Celebrities

Question 9

What are some examples of TNCs?

Answer 9

Apple

Tata steel

Question 10

What is an example of local community group forces of change?

Answer 10

The New Era Estate residents

Question 11

What happened in Scunthorpe in 2015?

Answer 11

A steel march against closures and job losses

Question 12

How many jobs were to be axed at Tata steel in Scunthorpe?

Answer 12

900, along with a further 270 in Scotland

Question 13

What caused the Tata steel redundancies?

Answer 13

The flooding of cut price Chinese steel onto the world’s markets as well as high energy prices

Question 14

How many steel jobs were at risk across the UK?

Answer 14

4000

Question 15

For how long had steel been the major industry in Scunthorpe?

Answer 15

125 years

Question 16

How did the public make their support clear for the steel industry?

Answer 16

Marches up the high street

Question 17

How did the Scunthorpe steelworks protect the town in World War 2?

Answer 17

The smoke from the steelworks masked the town from German planes and saved it from the bombing

Question 18

Which organisation had the power to change the outcome?

Answer 18

The national government

Question 19

How should places be studied in context?

Answer 19

How past and present connections have shaped them and embedded them in regional, national and international contexts

Question 20

What is palimpsest?

Answer 20

Places being made up of a series of layers

Question 21

What is Trafalgar Square?

Answer 21

A palimpsest on a small scale

Question 22

What is meaning?

Answer 22

Relates to individual or collective perceptions of a place

Question 23

What is representation?

Answer 23

How a place is portrayed or ‘seen’ in society

Question 24

What is identity?

Answer 24

An assemblage of personal characteristics such as gender, sexuality, race and religion

Question 25

What is belonging?

Answer 25

A sense of being part of a collective identity

Question 26

What is ownership?

Answer 26

The feeling of being in possession of a set of values or a particular identity

Question 27

What is wellbeing?

Answer 27

The positive outcome of a shared identity and a sense of belonging

Question 28

What developments have occurred in Salford Quays over the last 2 decades?

Answer 28

One of the largest regeneration rejects in the UK around Media City and surrounding areas.

Question 29

What are the key players in the Salford Quays regeneration?

Answer 29

Mersey Basin Campaign
United Utilities
Environment Agency
Local authorities
Property development firms
Northwest development agency
RSPB

Question 30

What is the role of the Mersey Basin Campaign in the Salford Quays regeneration?

Answer 30

Coordinate the individual efforts of local authorities, private investors and voluntary organisations as they act to improve water quality

Question 31

What is the role of United Utilities in Salford Quays Regeneration?

Answer 31

They manage and operate commercial and household water and wastewater supplies in the Northwest. Legal obligations to make improvements in line with national and EU legislation

Question 32

What is the role of the environment Agency in Salford Quays regeneration?

Answer 32

Protecting and improving the environment, has legal powers needed to stop pollution of local waterways. Ensures EU quality standards are met.

Question 33

What is the role of Local Authorities?

Answer 33

Have limited direct responsibility for waterways but have power to make it easer for other agencies to deal wit polluted water

Question 34

What is the role of the RSPB in Salford Quays redevelopment?

Answer 34

Has over 1 million members and can play a key role in getting local people to support review restoration work that improves habitats for birds and animals

Question 35

What are methods of representation?

Answer 35

Brochures
Plays
Poetry
Adverts

Question 36

What is provenance?

Answer 36

The place of origin or earliest known history of something

Question 37

What is geospatial data?

Answer 37

Data this has a spatial/geographic component, meaning it can be mapped, may have explicit geographical positioning

Question 38

What is geolocated data?

Answer 38

The identification or estimation off the real world geographic location of an object

Question 39

Representation of place

Answer 39

Cultural practices by which human societies interpret and portray the world around them and present themselves to others

Question 40

Rebranding example

Answer 40

Salford Quays

Question 41

Place marketing

Answer 41

Promotion of a place using different techniques
Websites
Logos
Advertising campaigns