Changing Places

Question 1

Endogenous Factors

Answer 1

-internal factors
-location (site or situation)
-topography (height of land, relief, hills and mountains)
-physical geography (drainage, floodplain, soil type, valley)
-land use (settlement, agricultural, commercial, industrial)
-built environment (age\type of buildings)
-infrastructure (road and rail network, waterways, airports)
-demographic (age structure/ ethnicity)
-economic (economic sector primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary)

Question 2

Exogenous Factors

Answer 2

-external factors (factors outside the place)
-people (migrants or workers come from outside a place to live or work)
-capital (investment from businesses based outside the area)
-resources (raw materials, transport infrastructure)
-ideas (urban planners, architects, businesses an artists may bring ideas to shape and change a place)

Question 3

Near place

Answer 3

-place that is close to us
-can be subjective as different people find different distances near or far

Question 4

Far place

Answer 4

-place that is distant
-both fat an near places have more emotional meaning, some people get homesick or feel far away even if they are physically close

Question 5

Experience place

Answer 5

-place you have visited, form emotional attachment
-some believe you acquire a deeper understanding of the place when visited it

Question 6

media place

Answer 6

-not visited, learned through the media representation (tv, news, social media, online)
-some arg gain more intense expletive physically visiting a place leading to stronger attachment due to stimulation of senses
-media source can change sense of place (subjective emotional attachment to a place) subconsciously
-perceptions are based on what’s presented to us
-media places can be fictional (Hogwarts)
-often focus on extreme positive or negative characteristic, News stories focusing on gang culture in london, cause topophobia of a place

Question 7

Genius loci

Answer 7

-spirit of a place
-suggest that every place has a unique spirit or atmosphere
based on everything for the location is made up of now and in the past

Question 8

Place character

Answer 8

-specific qualities, attributes and features of a location that make it unique
-affected by exogenous and endogenous factors

Question 9

Endogenous Factors

Answer 9

-factors that originate within the place, local
-land use- is the area urban or rural
-topography-the relief and lie of the land
-physical geography-are there natural physical feature such as waterfalls
-infrastructure-built services that enhance or are essential to living conditions (roads, railways, canals, airports, broadband, phone networks, water supply, sewers, parks, public pools, schools, hospitals, education system, health care, local government, law enforcement)