✅3.2.2.2 - Changing Places – Relationships, Connections, Meaning and Representation Flashcards

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All places are…

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…dynamic, not static, and socially constructed

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What do socially constructed links show?

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How places function socially

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What are some forces of change?

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National government
International institutions
Global institutions 
National institutions
Local governments
Individuals
TNCs
Local community groups
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What is an example of a national institution?

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The National Trust

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What are some examples of individual forces of change?

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Activists
Aristocrats
Celebrities

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

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The New Era Estate residents

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What happened in Scunthorpe in 2015?

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A steel march against closures and job losses

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

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900, along with a further 270 in Scotland

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What caused the Tata steel redundancies?

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

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How many steel jobs were at risk across the UK?

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4000

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

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125 years

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

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Marches up the high street

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

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

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Which organisation had the power to change the outcome?

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The national government

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How should places be studied in context?

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

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What is palimpsest?

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Places being made up of a series of layers

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What is Trafalgar Square?

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A palimpsest on a small scale

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What is meaning?

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Relates to individual or collective perceptions of a place

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What is representation?

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Any mans of communication by which people tell each other about a place

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What is identity?

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

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3 different scale of identity of place

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Localism: emotional ownership of a place, can encourage NIMBYism

Regionalism: consciousness of an loyalty to a region, w/ a population that shares similarities

Nationalism: loyalty to a nation, patriotism is a sense of place like this

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What is NIMBYism

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Not in my backyard - ism

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What is an example of Regionalism?

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Mebyn Kernow Party in Cornwall
Wanted to remove Cornwall from England

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What is belonging?

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A sense of being part of a collective identity

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What is ownership?

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

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What is wellbeing?

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

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

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

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What are the key players in the Salford Quays regeneration?

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Mersey Basin Campaign
United Utilities
Environment Agency
Local authorities
Property development firms
Northwest development agency
RSPB
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What is the role of the Mersey Basin Campaign in the Salford Quays regeneration?

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Co-Diane’s the individual efforts of local authorities, private investors and voluntary organisations as they act to improve water quality

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

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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

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

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

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What is the role of Local Authorities?

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

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

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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

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What are different types of representation?

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Formal
Informal
Abstract

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Features of formal representations

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More objective, based on facts rather than feelings

Includes statistics, geospatial data

Like OS maps which aim to be objective but leave out much detail

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Features of informal representations

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Doesn’t necessarily show what actually exists
Can be creative- like graffiti, TV
Can be selective- like China’s 1 child policy being covered up for the 2008 Beijing Olympics

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Features of abstract representations

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Leaves out much detail but conveys what is means to only using key detail

e.g London tube map (not accurate but is successful in showing relationship between places and stops)

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What is provenance?

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The place of origin or earliest known history of something

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What is geospatial data?

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Data this has a spatial/geographic component, meaning it can be mapped, may have explicit geographical positioning
90% of data collected over last decade is geospatial

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What is geolocated data?

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

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Why does ethnic clustering occur in places?

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Familiarity for outsiders; sense of place provided
Easier to integrate into new community with shared culture
Schelling’s theory of ethnic segregation

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What is Schelling’s theory of ethnic segregation

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That when living somewhere:

If more ‘friends’ in an area than someone’s tolerance threshold for outsiders, someone will likely stay there and become an insider

If fewer ‘friends’ than tolerance threshold, someone will likely move

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Describe the Burgess Model

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CBD- origin of city, historic
Inner city- factories, terraced housing
Suburbs- bigger houses, historically where factory owners lived
Rural-urban fringe- agriculture, clear space, less demand

Can use to link economic development and sense of place

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Is globalisation making place more or less important?
Doreen Massey

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Massey argues it leads to endless specificities, contributing to ‘accumulated history of a place’
Places being shaped rather than eroded- palimpsest (altered but keeps traces of its earlier form)

Creates a thrown togetherness from shared sense of place from meeting trajectories

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What is museumification

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transformation of a cultural and national heritage into museum objects to maximise their preservation and value, for promotion

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Pros of museumification

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attracts tourists
highlights uniqueness
preserves history

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Cons of museumification

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false representation - history displayed to appeal rather than be accurate
listed buildings - demand & cost of maintenance
gives dependency on tourism industry
Locals lose sense of belonging

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What are example of placeless places

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Disney world
Airports
Service stations

occur when globalisation forces overpower local factors

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What is a clone town?

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Urban retail areas dominated by chain shops
In clone towns there will be little unique character & independent shops
Reading is high on on the clone town scale

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How did Totnes try to fight being a clone town

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Totnes, in Devon, stopped Costa from opening there in 2012 to maintain its independent identity

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How does industrialisation affect rural and urban areas

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Young workers leave for urban areas with more stable income, leaves behind elderly population, rural decline

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What is suburbanisation

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Wealthy factory owners moved out of CBD to suburbs
Inner city population decreases: e.g London fell 25% in population from 1850 to 1900

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What is counter-urbanisation? What does it lead to & why does it happen

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People move back to countryside
Due to better technology- can work from countryside more
Leaves some cities derelict- Broke Window Theory

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What is broken window theory

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Theory that if an area doesn’t look nice it will not be well kept and thus decline further

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How are rural areas affected by counter-urbanisation

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Addition of placeless housing
Cultural difference between insiders and outsiders, like views on hunting, can create conflict
Loss of sense of place

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How urban areas are impacted by regeneration or gentrification

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Cricket Field Road, Hackney, London
Prices increased 319% after regeneration

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Order of urban decline

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economic decline -> population & social decline -> physical environment decline

also political disengagement, especially among young people

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3 agents of change in rebranding

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government

corporate bodies

communities./ local groups

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Why do governments re brand

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To attract investment to improve an area

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How was government rebranding used in Stratford

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Olympic park built for 2012 Olympics
Stratford used to have least sporty child population

Now tourism to athlete tower, more investment into sports facilities, population more sporty

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Who does community led rebranding work

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Bottom up approach

Usually to improve neighbourhoods and community

communities plan and design projects to meet local needs

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How was community led rebranding used in London, coin street

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In 1970s, locals campaigned for better redevelopment in Coin Street
Eventually it was purchased and redeveloped into a thriving town, with the support of the city council

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Who does corporate led rebranding work

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Working with public bodies to run place making projects

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How was corporate led rebranding used in Silican Roundabout

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in Silican Roundabout, Hackney
Private sector web-based companies attracted to it for its low rent
Attracted gov support through rebranding of the area as a Tech City in 2010
Now 3rd largest tech start up location globally

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What is facadism
Where has it been used

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It is to try to make somethign seem as it is not
Used in Stratford Upon Avon (new houses built with Tudor Style fronts, like with beams)

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Why rebrand

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to encourage investment
to break from controversy
control behaviour

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What is an example of rebranding after controversy

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Sellafield Nuclear Plant rebranded to Windscale after nuclear spillage

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What is the idea of a global village

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idea world has become smaller, not physically, but due to greater interconnectedness - space-time compression
Some negatives from this:
Local citizens may feel unrepresented by supra-national governing bodies like EU
Intelligent young workers leave their own countries to more developed ones (brain drain for poorer countries)
Remote Amazonian tribes wiped out by diseases from outsiders