Changing places

Question 1

Explain how geospatial data helped you develop your knowledge and understanding of place?

Answer 1

• Data collected in field that has location information tied to it (GIS programme)
• Geotagged data such as geotagged tweets can be used to see place characteristic
• Index of multiple deprivation, Summer town 7th least, Cowley 2nd most
• Census data (data shine) can show ethnicities, life expectancy (87 in Summertown, 77 in Cowley)

Question 2

Name 1 artistic source and explain how it helped you develop understanding of place?

Answer 2

• CS Lewis ‘Oxford’, poetry
• Dominance of university ‘tower of dreams’
• Remains protected ‘skyline of dreaming spires’
• Surrounded by river Thames ‘lulled by ancient streams’
• Changed from industrial (Morris Factory 1913) ‘that was not built for gross material gains’

Question 3

Positives of Amsterdam rebranding

Answer 3

• Create new identity (placemarking, regeneration schemes)
• Slogan ‘I am Amsterdam’, tourism increased (top 5 cities based on brand strength)
• Cultural assets (stamp) in 2012, associated with economic growth
• Social media spread and 3D sculpture in front of museum

Question 4

Negatives of Amsterdam rebranding

Answer 4

• Too much tourism and residents ignored (residential city lost) > removal of slogan
• Still idea of red light district, partying and drugs ‘liberal city’
• Orginialy, failed bid for olympics and social/economic decline in areas

Question 5

What 4 paragraphs for impact of globalisation on place?

Answer 5

• Positives of globalisation in Detroit
• Negative of globalisation in Detroit
• Positives of globalisation in Brick Lane
• Global shift larger impact (gentrification), homogenisation of Oxford

Question 6

Positives on Detroit

Answer 6

• Rapid population growth (1.8 million in 1950s), growth in suburbs
• Increase racial diversity (race riots 1943)
• Economic boost > public investment
• Young independent population
• Fox cinema

Question 7

Negatives of Detroit

Answer 7

1970s:

• ‘white flight’, population decline
• economy > increased unemployment > decline tax and spending (40% street lights dont work)
• social > concentration of poverty (less built environment) > increase crime (lower life expectancy)
• wicked problem, brain drain
• Broken window theory

Question 8

Positives of globalisation on Brick Lane

Answer 8

• 17th century > French Huguenots (weaving/tailoring)
• 19/20th century > Jewish/Irish immigrant (Yiddish food, church’s to synagogues)
• 20/21st century > Banglatown (Curry mile, Sylheter Dak, growth in mosques)

Question 9

Factors other than globalisation, National change (Gentrification and government)

Answer 9

• Gentrification > forced Bangladesh people out (attack on cereal cafe and anti-gentrification protests)
• Government policies, London docklands development and Stratford Olympics sector
• Oxford main street, homogenisation/clone town (chain stores)