Changing Places

Question 1

Insider

Answer 1

Someone who is familiar with a place and who feels welcome in that place

Question 2

Outsider

Answer 2

Someone who feels unwelcome or excluded from a place

Question 3

Experienced Places

Answer 3

Places that people have spent time in. When a person visits or lives in a place their experiences, such as the things they see and the people they meet, shape their sense of that place.

Question 4

Media places

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Globalisation

Answer 5

The process of the world’s economies, political systems and cultures becoming more closely integrated.

Question 6

How has globalisation effected people’s experiences

Answer 6

• improvements in travel technology mean that far places are quicker to get to, and can therefore be experienced more easily and frequently
• Improvements in ICT mean that people can be very familiar with media places
• people can also remain closely connected with people and activities in far places via the internet.

Question 7

Endogenous Factors

Answer 7

The internal factors which shape a place’s character

Question 8

Exogenous Factors

Answer 8

The external factors which shape a place’s character, including the relationship to other places and the flows in and out of a place.

Question 9

Give examples of external forces that are driving changes in many places

Answer 9

1) Government Policies
2) Decisions of transnational corporations
3) Impacts of international or global institutions

Question 10

How did the industrial revolution effect large industrial cities.

Answer 10

Large industrial cities developed that were globally connected through the trade of the goods produced. This resulted in large-scale to Urban migration as people moved to the cities in search of work in factories.

Question 11

Deindustrialisation

Answer 11

The closure of factories due to increased automation, competition from abroad and the removal of manufacturing to developing countries where labour is cheaper.

Question 12

Place Marketing to alter perception of a place

Answer 12

-how places are ‘sold’ like products to consumers.
- The people who will potentially visit, move to the area or invest money there.
-Marketing companies may be employed to produce websites, design logos, run advertising campaigns and social media pages.

Question 13

Reimaging to alter perception of a place

Answer 13

• about changing existing negative perceptions of places.

Question 14

Rebranding to alter perception of a place.

Answer 14

• Giving a place a new identity that is appealing to people and investors.
• It is achieved through reimaging, place Marketing and regeneration schemes.

Question 14

Statistics

Answer 14

Gives lots of quantitative information about what places are like.
They are objective, but they can be used subjectively. They don;t usually tell you anything about sense of place.

Question 15

Maps

Answer 15

Can be used to show any sort of data that has a location.
-They can also show quantitative demographic and economic data.
-They may also show qualitative information, which may be more helpful for sense of place.