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Changing places Flashcards

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1
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What does place mean?

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Place = location + meaning

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What is meant by meaning of a place?

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Sense of place = emotional meaning 
Insider, or outsider

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What are the four categories of place?

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Near
far
media
experience

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What are the endogenous factors of a place?

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Location, topography, physical geography, land, use built environment in infrastructure, demographic and economic characteristics

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What are the Exogenous factors that contribute to the character of a place 

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People,
money,
resources
ideas

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What might cause a demographic change?

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Increasing house prices that cause younger people to move out and older richer people to move in

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What is an external force the drive to change in many places

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Investment from TNCs can have a massive economic boost and increase number of jobs But this can create an overdependence, and when they rely on the TNCs for the economy, and the TNCs move out, this can have a huge economic downfall 

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What are the three main strategies used to alter a perception of a place & breifly outline?

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Place marketing- remarketing strategies ( slogans) to promote place
reimaging- changing existing negative perceptions
Rebranding - new appealing identity , uses placemarketing and reimaging

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What are the qualitative versus quantitive ways to represent the place?

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Quantitive = statistics and maps
Qualitative = films, photography, art, stories, music and poetry

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When did the railway arrive to Eastleigh?

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1832

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When did Eastleigh see industrialisation and why?

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1890-1950
Lsrw Moved its manufacturing of carriages from London to Eastleigh
Pirelli’s cabling manufacturing company
Mr Kipling cakes manufacturing
Manufacturing of the Spitfire aircraft in World War II 

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When did easily see deindustrialisation?

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1950s-2000s
Closure of the manufacturing companies and increased employment in the tertiary sector Due to the arrival of the Swan Centre

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What is the physical geography, Eastleigh 

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Sits on the wide floodplain of the river itching and has a flat relief

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What is the majority of land use in Eastleigh?

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Mostly residential
Commercial land mostly concentrated in retailing town centre

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Who is Thomas Chanberlyne and what did he do?

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Designed a new town based on terrace housing

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What are the demands for the future built environment of Eastleigh?

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1100 new homes to be built in in North stoneham park

17
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How is Eastleigh very connected to other places via Infrastructure?

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M3, M27, Railway to london

18
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What is the average income per head of Eastleigh?

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30 K

19
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a What percentage of residence have a level 4+ qualification?

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30.9%

20
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What flows of people has Eastleigh seen?

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Dinkeys
Migrants-3% population

21
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What flows of resources have been seen in East Lee?

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Prysmian that took over Pirelli bring copper wiring And high-tech resources

22
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How has eastleigh been re-imaged?

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Charlotte Young statue
Market town promotion

23
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When was the Torre Railway Station opened in Torquay

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1848 and this caused a rapid growth

24
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When did the nature of tourism in United Kingdom change significantly

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Late 1900s, when holidays abroad became popular

25
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Why is talkie branded as the English Riviera?

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Has a microclimate with more temperatures than UK average and has sheltered sandy beaches

26
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What percentage of all of Torbay is classified as green space

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54.5%

27
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What is the average house price of Torquay?

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290,000

28
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What is the population of Torquay?

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Around 66,000 people

29
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What can talkies population be considered as

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Ageing

30
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What type of jobs dominate Torquay? 

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Tertiary jobs and tourism

31
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What are torquays flows of people?

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Foreign exchange students come to learn English, but within Torquay, there are five deaths for every four months, so without inward migration, Torquay would have a shrinking population

32
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What happened in September 2018

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£32 million development on Torwood Street for regeneration

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