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Changing Places Flashcards

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What is a place?

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A place is a location that also has meaning.

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What is a location?

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The latitude and longitude of a place.

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What is a locale?

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A place where something happens. This could be a pub or restaurant in an area or a hotel that gives a place its identity.

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What is an insider?

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An insider is someone who is familiar with a place and who feels welcome in that place.

For example, residents of a country who all share the same cultural values.

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What is an outsider?

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An outsider is someone who feels unwelcome or excluded from a place.

For example, international immigrants who do not share the same cultural values as the residents of the country.

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What is an experienced place?

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Places that people have spent time in.

When a person visits or lives in a place their experiences shape their sense of that place.

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What is a media place?

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Places that people have not been to but have created a sense of place through their depiction in media.

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What is a near place?

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A place that is geographically near to where a person lives.

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What is a far place?

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A place that is geographically distant from where a person lives.

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What are endogenous factors?

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The internal factors that shape a place’s character.

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What are exogenous factors?

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The external factors that shape a place’s character.

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What are three physical endogenous factors?

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Location

Topography

Physical geography.

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What are three human endogenous factors?

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Land use

Built environment and infrastructure

Demographic and economic characteristics.

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What are three exogenous factors?

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Tourism

Flows of investment

Migration.

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What are the demographic characteristics of a place?

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Who lives in a place and what they’re like.

For example: age, gender, education level, religion, birth rates, ethnicity and population size.

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What shifting flows can change the demographic characteristics of a place?

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Flows of people.

Flows of money and investment.

Flows of ideas and resources.

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What are the cultural characteristics of a place?

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How people live their lives.

For example: the foods, the customs, clothing, tradition, language, art, attitudes, beliefs and values.

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What shifting flows can change the cultural characteristics of a place?

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Flows of people.

Flows of money, investment and ideas.

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What are the economic characteristics of a place?

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Characteristics about work or money.

For example: income, employment rates, types of job available.

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What shifting flows can change the economic characteristics of a place?

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Flows of people.

Flows of resources.

Flows of money.

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What are the social characteristics of a place?

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Characteristics related to what people’s lives are like.

For example: overall quality of life, access to food supplies, healthcare, education, sanitation, leisure facilities.

22
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What are social inequalities?

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Differences in social characteristics between different groups of people.

23
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What shifting flows can change the social characteristics in an area?

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Flows of people.

Flows of resources.

Flows of money and investment.

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What are three external forces that can change the characteristics of a place?

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Government policies.

Decisions of TNCs.

Impacts of global institutions.

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How can government policies affect the characteristics of a place?

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They can control immigration which affects the demographic and cultural characteristics of a place.

They can also regenerate run down areas which affects the economic and social characteristics of a place.

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How can TNCs impact the characteristics of a place?

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TNCs moving and investing in an area can cause economic and social growth.

TNCs moving abroad and leaving an area can cause deindustrialisation and a spiral of decline. For example, Detroit.

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How can global institutions affect the characteristics of a place?

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The World Bank provides billions of pounds to projects worldwide which aim to reduce poverty. These projects often alter the characteristics of a place.

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How can past and present connections shape places?`

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Links between different countries/cities can allow countries to become wealthier.

For example, connections between London and New York allowed them both to become world class cities.

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What is the representation of place?

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How individuals or organisations, such as businesses or councils, portray places they know about to others.

30
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What is topophilia?

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Positive feelings about a place.

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What is topophobia?

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Negative feelings about a place.

32
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How would a tourism company represent a place as?

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They would represent a place positively to encourage more sales.

33
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What three organisations would attempt to change people’s perceptions of a place?

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Governments/Council

Corporate Bodies

Community / Local Groups

34
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Why would governments influence perceptions of place?

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To attract people or investment to particular places.

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Why would corporate bodies influence perceptions of place?

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To generate profit or because they have been created for a specific purpose. For example, VisitBritain attempts to promote tourism in the UK.

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Why would community or local groups influence perceptions of a place?

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To improve the local economy and the lives of local people.

37
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What are the three main strategies to alter perceptions of a place?

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Place marketing

Reimaging

Rebranding

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What is place marketing?

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How places are ‘sold’ like products to consumers.

39
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What is reimaging?

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Changing existing negative perceptions of a place.

40
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What is rebranding?

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Giving a place a new identity that is appealing to people and investors.

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What is quantitative data?

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Data that can be quantified numerically and statistically.

For example, graphs and charts.

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What is qualitative data?

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Data that cannot be quantified numerically and is more descriptive and creative.

For example, art, poetry and photography.

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What is cartographic data?

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Where maps are used to present data.

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