Changing Places - External forces Flashcards
How can governments affect the demographic characteristics of places? Example?
By introducing policies to control population e.g in China the one-child policy.
How can governments affect the cultural characteristics of places?
By controlling immigration
How can governments improve the social and economic characteristics of places? Example?
Regeneration schemes - Hulme MCR led to an increase in population of the area and reduced unemployment.
What is an example of a place which has had a TNC invest into?
Investment - Detroit - a global centre of car manufacturing
How does investment from the TNCs give cities a economic boost?
Creates large numbers of jobs - some with high wages
How did investment from TNCs affect the demographic characteristics in places?
It attracted large numbers of migrants
What did the closure of TNCs affect? 3 things
Population
Employment
Social deprivation
What is the WFP?
World Food Programme
What does the WFP do?
Provides food assistance often as emergency aid
How does the WFP affect the social and demographic characteristics of places?
By ensuring that people have enough food and preventing deaths from starvatioon
What is the world bank?
An international organisation that invests in, helps set up thousands of projects that are aimed at reducing poverty.
What do connections between places in the past shape?
Their character in the present
Why were large industrial cities globally connected in the industrial revolution?
Through the trade of the goods produced
What did the connection between industrial cities result in??
Rural-urban migration due to work
