Changing places Flashcards
Why do people interact with places differently?
It depends on how the place is perceived
What is location?
Where a place is e.g co-ordinates
What is Locale?
How places are effected by people
What is sense of place?
The emotional attchment that people have to a place
What are the three famous geographers in relation to ‘place’ and what do they believe?
1 - Dorren massey - Place has lots of different meanings
2 - Y Fu Tuan - Space is freedom, place is security
3 - Tim Cresswell - He considers the social and cultural significance of place
What do we mean by a destructive approach?
It is the idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct
What do we mean by a social constructionist approach, example?
This is the idea that place is a product of a particular set of social processes occuring at a particular time
e.g Trafalgar Square was built to commemorate a British naval victory and therefore, using a social constructionist approach, could be seen as a place of Colonialism
What do we mean by a phenomenological approach?
This is interested in how individuals experience place
What is the location of Glastonbury? (2)
1 - In SW England
2 - 510N 30S
What is the Locale of glastonbury? (3)
1 - Is historically rich due to King Arthur
2 - Associated with magic due to it’s connections with the sorcerer, Merlin
3 - Associated with partying due to the masses of festival goers at Glastonbury festival
What is Glastonburys sense of place? (2)
1 - Festival goers may view Glastonbury as an escape
2 - Religious due to it’s assocation with Paganism
What are three ways that foster a sense of local place? (3)
1 - Local newspaper
2 - Playing/watching sport
3 - Attending local events
How does a Local newspaper foster a sense of local place?
1 - Learn about new developments and events, making you feel ‘in the loop’
2 - It influences you as feels personal
How does Playing/Watching sports foster a sense of local place? (2)
1 - may know people on the team so feel a connection
2 - Promotes togetherness as the locals all supproting the same team
How does Attending local events foster a sense of local place? (2)
1 - Supproting local economy
2 - Promotes social cohesion
What is localism? (2)
1 - Concerned with your specific place
2 - Triggers NIMBYism
Regionalism? (2)
1 - You have a sense of loyalty attached to a place
2 - You are informed on a local area
What is Nationalism?
Having a loyalty to a nation which creates a snese of national consiouness
What does placemaking mean?
It is the deliberate shaping of a place to facilitate social intercation and improve a communit’s quality of life
What is homogenisation of place?
Places becoming identical or very similar
What is a clone town?
Settlements where the high street is dominated by chain stores
What does glocalisation mean? (2)
1 - Local places and cultures resisting the power of globalisation
2 - This forces MNC’s to adapt to the local marketplace
What is localisation of place?
The promotion of local goods and services and a greater focus on local place
What is the differnce between race and ethnicity when considering belonging? (2)
1 - Race based on biological charcteristcs e.g skin colour
2 - Ethnicity is beloning to a social group that has common national or cultural traditions
What is Trophophobia?
Fear of place
What is tropophilia?
Love of place
What are Endogenous factors?
Factors within a place that help shape it’s charcater e.g aging population
What are Exogenous factors?
Factors from outside a place that force a change in a places character e.g migration
What are media places?
Places we experienc only be media/films
What are Far and Near places?
Far - Don’t know well
Near - Know alot about - resident
How has our relationship with far and near places changing? (2)
1 - Due to time-space convergence far places coming ‘nearer’ than places that are georaphically closer to us
What is the time-space convergence?
The process by which distant places are brought closer together in terms of the time taken to travel between them
What is placenessess?
Places becoming increasinging similar and tell us vey little about there location
What are Public vs Private places?
Public - A place where there are behavourial expectations
Private - No behavioual restrictions as long as they abide by the law
What is a Freehold house?
When you own the house and the land it is on
How does our experinece of a place change our perception of the place? (2)
It turns undifferniated space into place
It can make the place seem ‘nearer’
What is the rural extreme?
Gemeinschaft - inward looking, unchanged, traditional
What is the urban extreme?
Gessellschaft - fast paced, ever changing
What is the rural-urban continum?
You can’t label a place as wholey urban or rural, many places are a mixture
What is the differnce between and insider? (3)
1 - Somone who is familair with the rhythm and surroundings of the place
2 - This can make them feel at home
3 - However, somone can be experinced with the place but not feel at home e.g minorities
What is an outsider?
1 - Somone who is unfamiliar with the place
2 - People who are experiences of the place can also be outsiders e.g minorties
What was the Occupy wall street movement?
A group opposing to social an economic inequality through the occuptaion of wall street
When was the Occupy wall street?
17th Sep 2011
What is meant by the phrase ‘we are the 99%’ made up the occupy wall street movement?
Refers to the increased concentration of income and wealth among the top 1% of earners in the USA
What was the importance of the occupy movement?
It raised awarness about the wealth inequalities and the widening gap between the rich and poor
What is the character of a place?
The physical and human features that help to distinguish it from another place
what are the factors that impact on the character of a place? (5)
1 - Migration
2 - Terrorism
3 - Industrial accidents
4 - Natural disasters
5 - Climate change
What are the three main agents of change that impact a place? (3)
1 - Government policies
2 - The decisions of MNC’s
3 - The decisons of interntaional global institution
What is an example of a Government policies that have impacted place? (2)
1 - Regeneration schemes
2 - Financial incentives for industries such as subsidies, tax breaks and enterpirse zones (area which offers incentives)
What are some examples of decisions of MNC’s that have impacted place? (2)
1) 2016 Tata Steel - announces UK job cuts due to difficult global market conditions
2) 2011 Cadbury - Somerdale Cadbury factory nera Bristol moves to Poland
What are examples of the decisions of Global institutions? (3)
1 - 2015 World Bank - 15 development projects in Haiti post earthquake
2 - 2000 UN Millennium Development goals - Improve global quality of life (varied sucess)
3 - 2015 Sustainable development goals
What are the factors affecting the character of a place? (5)
1 - Socio-economic
2 - Cultural
3 - Political
4 - Physical Geography
5 - Demographic
Describe how Bournville village, Birrmingham has changed? (3)
1 - External agent of change - The Cadburys set up factories and houses and brought workers
2 - Change - This increase in population, influenced the village trust to set up numerous facilities and large areas of grassland - became a ‘garden suburn’
3 - Since then little change occured - traditions of growing local produce remain + building tightly controlled, keeping areas of greenland
Describe how Medellin, Columbia has changed? (3)
1 - External agent of change- Pablo Escobar brought durgs, crime, social inequality
2 - Change - Long term investments in infastructure + education e.g
- Intergration of social classes - poorest can acess economc center by Metroplus bus
- Educational + social budgets increased
3 - Still inequalities and high crime rates but optimism and reduced poverty
Describe how Devonport, Plymouth has changed? (5)
1 - External agent of change - Was a naval dockyard + prosperous but WW2 brought changes
2 - Change:
- Navy split town with 3m high wall, to turn it into a storage enclave: Displaced residents rehoused in housing inapropriate for families
- Military cutbacks: Loss of naval jobs
3 - New deal for communities inititive - Funded education, health, housing etc facilities
4 - Dividing wall removed + area developed
5 - Still pockets of deprivation but overall area improved
What is a footloose industry?
An industry that can be placed and located at any location without effect from factors such as resources or transport.
What is counter-urbanisation?
The movement away from large urban settlements to smaller urban settlements and rural settlements.
Some villages lose their character whilst other villages are able to maintain their character. Why is there this difference?
It depends on there distance from large urban areas, and therefore how acceable the villiage is
What are New / Overspill towns?
Towns that accomodate the urban workforce and are self supporting
What is linear development?
When large towns and cities grow outwards along roads
What are suburbanised villiages?
Dormitory or commuter villages with residents emplyed in urban area
What is a steback of a villiage lying on the extreme rural scale?
May beocme targets of 2nd home ownership as people can’t live there permantly due it’s poor acess to their jobs in urban areas
