changing places

Question 1

what is a place?

Answer 1

location with meanings

Question 2

location definition

Answer 2

physical location

Question 3

what is a sense of place?

Answer 3

subjective emotional attachment to a place

Question 4

what is placelessness?

Answer 4

suggests that a place is not unique

Question 5

what is the importance fo place (4)?

Answer 5

• forms an identity
• feeling connected
• sense of belonging
• relates to aspect of their life

Question 6

what is a near place ?

Answer 6

geographically close, everyday visit

Question 7

what is a far place?

Answer 7

distance place

Question 8

how do near places link with experience?

Answer 8

• spend time

- influenced bu people visiting

Question 9

how do far places link with media?

Answer 9

-not been but experienced through media (happening more with globalisation)

Question 10

what are endogenous factors?

Answer 10

internal factors which shape a place?

Question 11

what are the 7 endogenous characteristics of a place?

Answer 11

• location (where a place is- well connected?)
• topography (shape of land)
• phys geo (drainage/ climate/ altitude)
• land use (human activity)
• built environment (transport)
• infrastructure (connections)
• demographic + £ characteristics (who lives there/ jobs)

Question 12

what are the 4 characteristics of a place?

Answer 12

• cultural
• demographic
• economic
• social inequalities

Question 13

what are cultural characteristics? 4

Answer 13

-language
-beliefs
-food
-music
HOW

Question 14

what are demographic characteristics of a place?

Answer 14

• stats that illustrate people
• people/ age/ sex/ race
• WHO

Question 15

what are economic characteristics of place?

Answer 15

• income
  -employment
  -jobs
  WORK/MONEY

Question 16

what are social inequalities of place?

Answer 16

• differences in groups of people

- health care/ education/ access to services

Question 17

how can shifting flows of people shape a place demographically/ culturally?

Answer 17

• migrants may be younger to find work (lowering average age)
• new cultural characteristics (spark-hill)

Question 18

how can shifting flows of people shape a place £/ socially?

Answer 18

• migrants- demand services
• tourism- increases jobs
• areas become less deprived
• gentrification increases gap

Question 19

how can shifting flows of resources shape a place demographically/ culturally?

Answer 19

• population services

- media- idea over climate change

Question 20

how can shifting flows of resources shape a place £/socially?

Answer 20

• flows of resources out/ manufacturing (Detroit cars)
• create jobs
• ideas can be restricted e.g. china fire wall

Question 21

how can shifting flows of money/investment shape a place demographically/ culturally?

Answer 21

• new housing development encourages new demographic i.e east village
• new demographic bring own culture

Question 22

how can shifting flows of money/investment shape a place £ /socially?

Answer 22

• regeneration increases jobs
• tourism- investment into area
• investment in infrastructure can reduces social deprivation
• investment out can increase deprivation and lead to employment

Question 23

in the PAST how did places connect?

Answer 23

through trade- world cities and urbanisation

Question 24

in the PRESENT how to places connect locally?

Answer 24

rural- urban migration

Question 25

in the PRESENT how do places connect globally? 3

Answer 25

• internet connection
• financial banking centres
• trade blocs- EU

Question 26

explain Doreen massey’s layers through globalisation of place?

Answer 26

• clone town/placelessness
• high streets (Zara costa)
• unemployment (online shopping)

Question 27

how can development of place create meaning?

Answer 27

• historical development (links past/present/future connection)
• regeneration/ industrialisation/ deindustrialisation

Question 28

how can place attachment create meaning of place?

Answer 28

• emotional attachment (perception)

- pos/neg experiences change place attachment

Question 29

what are the three external agencies?

Answer 29

government
corporate bodies (TNCs)
local groups

Question 30

how can these external agencies change place meaning?

Answer 30

• place marketing (branding + sales strategies (‘I Amsterdam’)
• reimagining (changes neg experience of place to pos (Brighton PRIDE))
• rebranding (redevloed and marketed so a place gets a new identity (included place marketing/reimagining) (stratford)

Question 31

in what ways do these external agencies work?

Answer 31

• top down (gov)
• partnership (all)
• bottom up approach (local) (community celebration )

Question 32

these actions from external agencies change place meaning what is the effect of this?

Answer 32

• changing demographic
• increasing/ decreasing employment
• conflict
• resistance

Question 33

how are places represented formally?

Answer 33

• cencus
• population data
• IMD
• police
• cartography

Question 34

how are places represented informally?

Answer 34

-newspapers
-photographs
-songs
textual sources
-TV/film
-art
-graffiti

Question 35

how can the informal representation of a place represent a different image of place?

Answer 35

• a lot more subjective to a person
• visual representation (really good/ really bad)
• personal

Question 36

what are clone towns?

Answer 36

the sense of place is similar or the same in a different location due to the dominance of chain shops.

Question 37

what is Topophilia?

Answer 37

the love of a place and having strong attachment to it

Question 38

what is topophobia?

Answer 38

the dislike of a place

Question 39

what are the characteristics of a person that feels at home with a place?

Answer 39

• hold citizenship for a place
• born there/live there
• fluent in local lang an conform with idioms
• conforms with social norms and behavioral traits common in that place