Changing places - Concept of place

Question 1

What are all the factors that make up a place? (5)

Answer 1

1 - Location

2 - Natural environment

3 - Built environment

4 - Flows

5 - Sense of place (emotional meaning)

Question 2

How can a place change? (4)

Answer 2

1 - Change in natural environment e.g flooding

2 - Migration

3 - MNC’s change money flows

4 - Ageing could change sense of place (child vs adult perspective

Question 3

What are the ways in which a shared identity for all the people in a place can be seen? (3)

Answer 3

1 - Local - Individuals from a villiage sharing a positive sense of the villiage

2 - Regional - Individuals shairng an accent

3 - National - Individuals shairng a lang / religion

Question 4

What is an insider vs outsider?

Answer 4

Insider - Individual who is familair and feels they belong to a place

Outsider - Individual who feels excluded from a place and feels they don’t belong

Question 5

What are the factors that can influence whether a person feels like an outside or insider? (5)

Answer 5

1 - Age

2 - Sexuality

3 - Ethnicity

4 - Religion

5 - Gender

Question 6

How can people have a sense of place for experinced places and media places?

Answer 6

Experienced -

Question 7

What are experienced places and how is sense of place created? (2)

Answer 7

1 - Places people have spent time in

2 - The people they meet and things they see shape their sense of place

Question 8

What are media palces and how is a sense of place created? (2)

Answer 8

1 - Places people have not been to

2 - But sense of place created through their media depiction

Question 9

How can a sense of media place and lived experince of the same place differ?

Answer 9

Media glamourises media place whereas reality is more brutal

Question 10

What is a piece of music that has helped you better understand a place? (2)

Answer 10

Lilly Allen: LDN

1 - Shows how the media represents the gamourised verison of london

2 - Contrasts this to the harsh reality: drugs, violence, poverty

Question 11

Near vs far place? (2)

Answer 11

Near:

1 - Geographically close

2 - More likely to feel like insider

Question 12

How has globalisation affected people’s experince of geographical distance? (4)

Answer 12

1 - Time-space convergence: far places are quicker to get to - feel less distant

2 - People can be familair will a place through media

3 - People can feel connected to far places via internet

4 - Far and near places become less different though same chain stores in town centres - placelessnes