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Changing places Flashcards

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location

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  • Coordinates on a map
  • Exact geographical location
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Locale

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  • A place that has been shaped by people, cultures and customs
  • Unlike location, it takes into account the effect people have on places
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Sense of place

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  • The emotional attachment people have to a place
  • Changes from person to person (different perspectives)
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Placelessness

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  • The idea a particular landscape could be anywhere as it lacks uniqueness
  • Weakens the identity of places e.g. McDonald’s (chain stores)
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Insiders

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  • People who feel they belong in a certain place
  • Person’s home
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Outsiders

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  • People who feel out of place
  • People who feel they don’t belong
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Features of insiders

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  • Born in the area
  • Fluent in language
  • Safe and secure
  • Permanent resident (passport)
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Features of outsiders

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  • Born elsewhere, foreign
  • Not fluent in language
  • Alienated
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Place attachment

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The emotional bond between a person and a place

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Factors forming place attachment

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  • Family/friends
  • Religion
  • Gender
  • Age
  • Experiences
  • Morals
  • Ethnicity
  • Education
  • Interests
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Relationship between experience and attachment

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  • More experience/intensity of experience
  • = more attachment to a place
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Categories of place

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  • Near / Far
  • Experienced / Media
  • Public / Private
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Near place

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  • Feels like home
  • Feels secure
  • Forms national identity
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Far place

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  • Place we see as foreign, alien, different
  • Racist ideologies / mocking terms
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Experienced place

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  • Place you have spent time in
  • When they visit/live in a place their experiences shape their sense of place
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Media place

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  • Not been to but have created a sense of place through their description in the media
  • e.g Africa is depicted as orange/golden with acacia trees because of books/movies (lion king)
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Example of private place

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Zucotti Park - New York
- Open to the public 24 hours a day
- Regulations when putting up tents
- Difficult to define as it is private and public

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Example of public place

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Phnom Penh National Stadium
- No regulations
- Open to the public
- People selling food
- People taking baths in buckets

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Endogenous factors

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  • Internal factors that help shape the character of a place
  • Physical and human features
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Example of endogenous factors

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  • Land use
  • Demographic
  • Nature / Landscape
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Exogenous factors

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  • External factors that help shape the character of a place
  • The relations that a place has with other places that affect its characteristics
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Example of exogenous factors

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Movement of:
- People
- Resources
- Money
- Investment
- Ideas

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Factors influencing place

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  • Location
  • Built environment
  • Physical geography (topography)
  • Economic characteristics
  • Demographic
  • Infrastructure
  • Land use
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Positives / Negatives of migration within the EU

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+ Fish processing in Scotland and farm work in East Anglea = benefited from labour, new shops
- Schools struggle with large numbers of children and children having English as a second language

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Why ethnic minorities suffer exclusion

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  • Feel uncomfortable as they are the minority in an area
  • e.g. Malborough is 93% white
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Groups which suffer exclusion

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  • Ethnic minorities
  • LGBT communities
  • Homeless
  • Disabled
  • Age
  • Immigrants
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Why LGBT communities suffer exclusion

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People have opposing views and may be unwelcoming / uneducated

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Why disabled people suffer exclusion

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May not be able to access certain areas e.g. stairs

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Why immigrants suffer exclusion

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Media portrays them negatively - negatively viewed by a population

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Formal representation

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  • Facts
  • objective
  • quantitative
  • statistical data e.g. Census or Geospatial data (GIS)
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Examples of formal representation

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Census data, OS map

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Evaluation of formal representation

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+ Quantitative data is non-bias and easy to interpret
- Doesn’t show an actual representation of a place

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Informal representation

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  • Not accurate representation
  • creative
  • related with certain groups in society
    e.g. Beijing Olympics - one-child policy is hidden
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Examples of informal representation

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  • Art
  • Media
  • Tv
  • Film
  • Photos
  • Music
  • Murals
  • Graffiti
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Evaluation of Informal Representation

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+ Can be changed for context
- Subjective
- Data may be interpreted differently

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Place identity

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  • How people experience a place
  • The meaning people give to a place
  • Identity can be evident at a local, regional and national scale
  • Different perspectives / conflicting views
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Clone town

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  • Losing their place identity
  • e.g. Queens Mead, Farnborough, doesn’t represent Farnborough’s history
  • TNCs / Chain stores can afford rent and local shops are pushed out (Tumble Down Dick)
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Government policies

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  • Big impact on demographic characteristics of a place (one-child policy)
  • Cultural characteristics (Germany)
  • Social and economic characteristics
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Government policy - Germany

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  • 1960s German government invited Turkish people to live and work in Germany
  • Now has many aspects of Turkish culture
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Government policy - Hulme

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  • 1992 regeneration of Hulme
  • Local council aimed to increase population as well as employment rates and quality of life
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Multinational corporations

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Impacted demographic, social and economic characteristics e.g. Detroit, USA

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Detroit

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  • Once a global centre of car manufacturing, factories gave the city an economic boost
  • Large number of migrants for jobs
  • Recession = industries moved to cheaper countries = massive population decline (over half)
  • 1.8m (1950s) to 700,000 (2010)
  • employment reduced 2010 = 24.8% of the workforce was unemployed
  • Some of US highest crime rates
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International / global institutions

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  • World Food Programme
  • World Bank
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World Food Programme

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  • Provides emergency food
  • Prevents death from famine (social)
  • Provided aid to millions of people in Yemen since 2015
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World Bank

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  • Invests in and sets up thousands of projects which aim to reduce poverty
  • Between 2010 and 2015, provided funding to Nirgbo New Countryside Development project in China
  • Improved social conditions of area by providing clean wastewater disposal to 144 villages

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