Changing places

Question 1

What are the three dimensions of place?

Answer 1

Location, locales and sense of place.

Question 2

What is location?

Answer 2

The physical point where a place is.

Question 3

What are locales?

Answer 3

Locations in a place that are areas associated with everyday activities e.g. school, sports ground or theatre.

Question 4

What is sense of place?

Answer 4

The subjective emotional attachment to a place which gives it meaning.

Question 5

What did Tim Cresswell say about place?

Answer 5

‘Place is not just a thing in the world but a way of understanding the world’

Question 6

What is the main economic characteristic of Mumbai?

Answer 6

It is the financial centre of India as well as home to the popular Bollywood movie industry.

Question 7

What did Mumbai develop as?

Answer 7

A trade centre selling local goods such as gold, jewellery and textiles.

Question 8

What natural feature does Mumbai have that makes trade easier?

Answer 8

A natural deep-water harbour.

Question 9

What percentage of India’s income tax did Mumbai make up in 2015?

Answer 9

33%

Question 10

What percentage of India’s GDP did Mumbai make up and what is significant about this?

Answer 10

6.16%, Mumbai is the largest single contributor in India.

Question 11

What percentage of India’s industrial output did Mumbai account for?

Answer 11

25%

Question 12

What percentage of India’s foreign trade did Mumbai account for?

Answer 12

40%

Question 13

An influx of migrants from other parts of India seeking employment opportunities lead to what in Mumbai?

Answer 13

The population being very diverse with 16 major languages being spoken there.

Question 14

Where do around 60% of people in Mumbai live?

Answer 14

In slums.

Question 15

Name two media sources which represent Mumbai.

Answer 15

Slumdog millionaire and Mission impossible.

Question 16

What is the population density in Dharavi?

Answer 16

300,000 people per square kilometre.

Question 17

How many people share a toilet in Dharavi?

Answer 17

Over 1,000 people per toilet.

Question 18

What is an experienced place?

Answer 18

Places people have spent time in. When a person visits or lives in a place their lives experiences, such as the things they see and the people they meet, shape their sense of that place.

Question 19

What is a media place?

Answer 19

Places that people have not been to but have created a sense of place for through their depiction in media (e.g. books, art and films).

Question 20

What is a near place?

Answer 20

A place which is geographically near to where a person lives and or is emotionally close to that person.

Question 21

What is a far place?

Answer 21

A place which geographically or emotionally distant from where a person lives.

Question 22

What is placelessness and what is it caused by?

Answer 22

When a place is very similar to other places around the world due to most of the businesses being global TNCs such as Mcdonald’s. Globalisation has made these places look and feel the same.

Question 23

What are endogenous factors? Give three examples of physical and four of human.

Answer 23

Internal factors such as location, topography, physical geography, land use, built environment, infrastructure and demographic and economic characteristics.

Question 24

What are exogenous factors? Give four ideas.

Answer 24

External factors such as flows of people, resources, money and ideas.