CHANGING PLACES Pt3 - Meaning and Representation Flashcards
Why are places seen as unique?
As our understanding of the world is closely tied to our appreciation of different places and based on our direct experiences of their depictions in the media
- we should consider a places key characteristics and its context (location)
What two places can be used to contrast character + give some info?
Both are seaside and they represent architectural differences
- Aberdeen
- the “granite city” - Abbotsbury
- in Dorset
- beautiful landscapes + housing (natural materials e.g. wood and thatch roofs)
What are the two places in Derbyshire that can be used to contrast demographic and economic character differences?
- Hathersage and Eyam
- a ward in the Peak District National Park in North Derbyshire
- population 1/4 of Sinfin - Sinfin
- high population
- located on outskirts of the city of Derby
What are endogenous factors?
- internal factors that help shape the character of a place
- can be physical geographical features as well as human features
What are exogenous factors?
- help shape the character of a place
- generally the relations that a place has with other places that affects its characteristics
What are the 8 key endogenous factors and give an example/detail about it?
TO BE CONTINUED
- Land use
- agricultural, urban, industrial - Economic characteristics
- primary, secondary, tertiary, or quaternary industries - Location
- high above sea level, coastal - Topography
- hills or mountains - Physical geography
- floodplain or river valley, geology - Infrastructure
- motorways or single-track lanes, rail connections - Demographic characteristics
- age, gender, ethnicity, disability etc - Built environment
- green spaces, vehicles, buildings
What are the 3 key exogenous factors and give examples/info?
Movements or flows of different things
1. People
- e.g. an area of Spain having lots of brits
- Resources
- e.g. coal and iron are shipped to Port Talbot to make steel - Ideas
- science parks
How has the EU shaped migration in the UK (stats)?
- 28 countries in the EU
- 2004 > became larger with 10 new counties
- 2004-2009 > flow of 1.5 mil people (2/3 polish)
What are some of the impacts on the UK of Brexit?
- no longer able to live abroad easily
- many people settling in UK causing….
- overflowing of schools
- character and community of area changed
- harder to attract low wage employees
- incr in prices
- British exports less competitive
- failure of some Uk businesses > job losses
What is place identity?
Concerned with the meaning and significance of the place to the people who live there and its users
- how people experience a place and the meanings they give to it
What are the 3 aspects of the John Montgomery Theory?
- Physical setting
- Activity
- Meaning/image
Explain the place identity of Cambridge? + facts and figures
- public symbol of learning
- rich + diverse physical setting
- beautiful architecture + historical buildings e.g. University Colleges, libraries and The Corn Exchange
- most significant technology clusters in Europe
- tourists > River Cam
- 19 science and business parks > £13bn revenue + 4000 knowledge intensive firms
- financial investments and people > Huawei developed £1.3bn centre of excellence
- property 2x national average
Give an example of somewhere with multiple place identities and what they are?
Digbeth, Birmingham
- Place of industry > style of buildings
- Full of quirky street art, pop up street food, live bands, gin festivals, seasonal markets and underground bars
- Slightly seedy, night clubs, coach station
What are clone towns?
A town whose major shopping areas are dominated by chain stores at the expense of local diversity
What are 4 key examples of clone towns?
Heathrow Airport, Exeter, Cambridge and Stafford
What are the 2 definitions of globalisation?
- The increase in trade around the world, especially by large companies producing and trading goods in many different countries
- The increasing interconnection of the worlds economic cultural and political systems
What are some key phases which aid the description of globalisation?
- consolidation of world society
- transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity
- enabling of financial and investment markets to operate internationally
- increasing integration of economies
- expansion of global linkages
- accelerated due to liberalisation of trade and finance
- improvements to transport and communication
What is the key intellectual wording when explaining clone towns occurring?
Global forces asserting themselves and eroding local identity
- hermoginization of the high street
What are anti-globalisationists?
Individuals that believe globalisation is having a negative impact on cultural diversity
What is global marketing?
Marketing on a worldwide scale, reconciling or taking commercial advantage of global operational differences, similarities and opportunities in order to meet global objectives
Give an example of a town which resisted being a clone town and state some information about it
Totnes, Devon
- petition to stop Costa getting a lease
- 6000/8500 population signed
- 300 wrote to council
- 42 places already that sell coffee
- traditional place of independence
- threat to local economy + community
- “keep money circulating locally”
- impacts + eroding identity
What is a Transitional Town and give an example of one?
Totnes, Devon
- community-led and run charity that exists to strengthen the local economy, reduce our environmental impact and build our resilience for a future with less cheap energy and a changing climate
3 R’s
- resilience
- relocalisation
- regenerative development
Why do we have to reexamine place in terms of longevity?
As place is seen as constant but in fact rapid change can occur
What are some examples in the English language of a social imposition of place which suggests its permanent + unchanging?
- “know your place”
- “they looked out of place”
- “… a special place in my heart”
