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Changing places Flashcards

1
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Why do people interact with places differently?

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It depends on how the place is perceived

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What is location?

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Where a place is e.g co-ordinates

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What is Locale?

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How places are effected by people

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What is sense of place?

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The emotional attchment that people have to a place

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What are the three famous geographers in relation to ‘place’ and what do they believe?

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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

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What do we mean by a destructive approach?

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It is the idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct

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What do we mean by a social constructionist approach, example?

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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

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What do we mean by a phenomenological approach?

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This is interested in how individuals experience place

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What is the location of Glastonbury? (2)

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1 - In SW England

2 - 510N 30S

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What is the Locale of glastonbury? (3)

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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

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What is Glastonburys sense of place? (2)

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1 - Festival goers may view Glastonbury as an escape

2 - Religious due to it’s assocation with Paganism

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What are three ways that foster a sense of local place? (3)

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1 - Local newspaper

2 - Playing/watching sport

3 - Attending local events

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How does a Local newspaper foster a sense of local place?

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1 - Learn about new developments and events, making you feel ‘in the loop’

2 - It influences you as feels personal

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How does Playing/Watching sports foster a sense of local place? (2)

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1 - may know people on the team so feel a connection

2 - Promotes togetherness as the locals all supproting the same team

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How does Attending local events foster a sense of local place? (2)

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1 - Supproting local economy

2 - Promotes social cohesion

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What is localism? (2)

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1 - Concerned with your specific place

2 - Triggers NIMBYism

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Regionalism? (2)

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1 - You have a sense of loyalty attached to a place

2 - You are informed on a local area

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What is Nationalism?

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Having a loyalty to a nation which creates a snese of national consiouness

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What does placemaking mean?

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It is the deliberate shaping of a place to facilitate social intercation and improve a communit’s quality of life

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What is homogenisation of place?

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Places becoming identical or very similar

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What is a clone town?

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Settlements where the high street is dominated by chain stores

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What does glocalisation mean? (2)

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1 - Local places and cultures resisting the power of globalisation

2 - This forces MNC’s to adapt to the local marketplace

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What is localisation of place?

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The promotion of local goods and services and a greater focus on local place

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What is the differnce between race and ethnicity when considering belonging? (2)

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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

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What is Trophophobia?

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Fear of place

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What is tropophilia?

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Love of place

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What are Endogenous factors?

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Factors within a place that help shape it’s charcater e.g aging population

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What are Exogenous factors?

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Factors from outside a place that force a change in a places character e.g migration

29
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What are media places?

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Places we experienc only be media/films

30
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What are Far and Near places?

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Far - Don’t know well

Near - Know alot about - resident

31
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How has our relationship with far and near places changing? (2)

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1 - Due to time-space convergence far places coming ‘nearer’ than places that are georaphically closer to us

32
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What is the time-space convergence?

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The process by which distant places are brought closer together in terms of the time taken to travel between them

33
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What is placenessess?

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Places becoming increasinging similar and tell us vey little about there location

34
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What are Public vs Private places?

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Public - A place where there are behavourial expectations

Private - No behavioual restrictions as long as they abide by the law

35
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What is a Freehold house?

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When you own the house and the land it is on

36
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How does our experinece of a place change our perception of the place? (2)

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It turns undifferniated space into place

It can make the place seem ‘nearer’

37
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What is the rural extreme?

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Gemeinschaft - inward looking, unchanged, traditional

38
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What is the urban extreme?

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Gessellschaft - fast paced, ever changing

39
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What is the rural-urban continum?

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You can’t label a place as wholey urban or rural, many places are a mixture

40
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What is the differnce between and insider? (3)

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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

41
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What is an outsider?

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1 - Somone who is unfamiliar with the place

2 - People who are experiences of the place can also be outsiders e.g minorties

42
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What was the Occupy wall street movement?

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A group opposing to social an economic inequality through the occuptaion of wall street

43
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When was the Occupy wall street?

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17th Sep 2011

44
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What is meant by the phrase ‘we are the 99%’ made up the occupy wall street movement?

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Refers to the increased concentration of income and wealth among the top 1% of earners in the USA

45
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What was the importance of the occupy movement?

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It raised awarness about the wealth inequalities and the widening gap between the rich and poor

46
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What is the character of a place?

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The physical and human features that help to distinguish it from another place

47
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what are the factors that impact on the character of a place? (5)

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1 - Migration

2 - Terrorism

3 - Industrial accidents

4 - Natural disasters

5 - Climate change

48
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What are the three main agents of change that impact a place? (3)

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1 - Government policies

2 - The decisions of MNC’s

3 - The decisons of interntaional global institution

49
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What is an example of a Government policies that have impacted place? (2)

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1 - Regeneration schemes

2 - Financial incentives for industries such as subsidies, tax breaks and enterpirse zones (area which offers incentives)

50
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What are some examples of decisions of MNC’s that have impacted place? (2)

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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

51
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What are examples of the decisions of Global institutions? (3)

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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

52
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What are the factors affecting the character of a place? (5)

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1 - Socio-economic

2 - Cultural

3 - Political

4 - Physical Geography

5 - Demographic

53
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Describe how Bournville village, Birrmingham has changed? (3)

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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

54
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Describe how Medellin, Columbia has changed? (3)

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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

55
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Describe how Devonport, Plymouth has changed? (5)

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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

56
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What is a footloose industry?

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An industry that can be placed and located at any location without effect from factors such as resources or transport.

57
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What is counter-urbanisation?

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The movement away from large urban settlements to smaller urban settlements and rural settlements.

58
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Some villages lose their character whilst other villages are able to maintain their character. Why is there this difference?

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It depends on there distance from large urban areas, and therefore how acceable the villiage is

59
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What are New / Overspill towns?

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Towns that accomodate the urban workforce and are self supporting

60
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What is linear development?

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When large towns and cities grow outwards along roads

61
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What are suburbanised villiages?

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Dormitory or commuter villages with residents emplyed in urban area

62
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What is a steback of a villiage lying on the extreme rural scale?

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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

Geog - Paper 2 (Changing places + fieldwork) (3 decks)

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