Changing Places

Question 1

What is the concept of place in Geography?

Answer 1

Place is location plus meaning - a specific location with unique physical, cultural and social attributes

Question 2

What does the concept of placelessness refer to?

Answer 2

Placelessness refers to a location lacking uniqueness and carrying the same meanings as other locations

Question 3

Name three aspects of the importance of place in human life and experience.

Answer 3

Three from:
- Identity
- Cultural significance
- Social interaction
- Economic activities
- Environmental interactions
- Sense of security
- cultural diversity

Question 4

In what ways are places important for social interaction?

Answer 4

Places are where people gather, work, relax and build relationships: they are where communities connect

Question 5

Name two factors which might influence people’s sense of security and peace of mind about a place?

Answer 5

Two from:
- Crime rates
- Natural disaster risk
- The availability of emergency services

Question 6

Why might a place have cultural significance?

Answer 6

A place could be associated with an important event or a tradition

Question 7

Location often affects access to resources, markets and infrastructure. What category of importance would these aspects of a place fit with?

Answer 7

Economic importance of place

Question 8

What is an insider perspective on a place?

Answer 8

An insider perspective comes from someone who lives in the place and has direct experience of it

Question 9

What is an outsider perspective on a place?

Answer 9

An outsider perspective may come from someone visiting or media representations and may indicate feeling excluded or unwelcome

Question 10

What distinguishes experienced places from media places?

Answer 10

Experienced places are those visited or lived in, providing a deeper understanding, while media places are known only through media representations

Question 11

What are exogenous factors?

Answer 11

Factors that originate externally

Question 12

What are endogenous factors?

Answer 12

Factors that originate internally

Question 13

Is topography an exogenous or endogenous factors?

Answer 13

Endogenous

Question 14

Are demographic characteristic exogenous factors?

Answer 14

Endogenous

Question 15

Is migration to a place exogenous or endogenous?

Answer 15

Endogenous

Question 16

Name two ways in which relationships and connections with other places can be drivers of changes in a place.

Answer 16

Two from:
- Cultural exchange
- Economic development
- Social dynamics
- Globalisation

Question 17

name two changes in place that can result from economic changes.

Answer 17

Two from:
- Change in levels of employment
- In the balance of sectors of employment
- In disposable income
- In income differentials
- In access to services

Question 18

What does Yi-Fu Tuan suggest influences how place meanings are formed?

Answer 18

A person’s position in society

Question 19

How are everyday place meanings deepened over time?

Answer 19

Through active engagements with local place

Question 20

An OS map of a place or census data about a place are examples of what type of representation?

Answer 20

Formal represeantation

Question 21

Define rebranding of a place.

Answer 21

Changing or influencing the image or perception of a place to highlight what makes it more attractive or appalling, usually for economic or social objectives

Question 22

Define reimagining of a place

Answer 22

Creating new place meanings by the rethinking of place functions, meanings and purposes

Question 23

Are paintings, oral sources and audio-media qualitative or quantitative sources for place?

Answer 23

Qualitative

Question 24

Suggest two limitations of census records as a source for place studied.

Answer 24

Two from:
- Statistics can be manipulated
- They can give a skewed perspective if only a narrow rage of results is viewed
- Not everyone completes the census

Question 25

Suggest two limitations of maps as a source for place studies.

Answer 25

Two from:
- old hand-drawn aps are often subjective, not accurate
- OS maps don’t indicate what buildings are used for
- OS maps don’t always identify land use

Question 26

What does IMD stand for?

Answer 26

Index of Multiple Deprevation

Question 27

What does decline one of the IMD represent?

Answer 27

The most deprived 10% of LSOAs nationally

Question 28

Suggest one limitation of the IMD as a measure of place characteristics.

Answer 28

One from:
- Declines show that one area was more or less deprived than another, but not by how much
- LSOAs give data about place but not about the individuals who live there
- The IMD measures deprivation but not affluence

Question 29

Name three of the domains of deprivation measured by the IMD.

Answer 29

Three from:
- Income
- Employment
- Education
- Health
- Crime
- Barriers to house and services
- Living environment

Question 30

Suggest two positive changes resulting from the gentrification of an urban area.

Answer 30

Two from:
- Economic growth
- Reduced crime rates
- Improved infrastructure
- Improved services

Question 31

Suggest two negative changes resulting from the gentrification of an urban area.

Answer 31

Two from:
- Social displacement
- Loss of historic or changes to cultural identity of a place
- Resentment from surrounding places about services, opportunities, ect that they are not receiving