Changing Spaces : Making Places Flashcards
What is a place?
A place can have objective meanings and subjective meanings.
What is a space?
Doesn’t have subjective meanings and simply exists between places.
What makes a place?
Location - Physically is on a map
Locale - The setting which social interactions occur (how it looks)
Sense of place - The feelings and emotions a place evokes. Subjective between people.
What are 6 characteristics that makes a places identity?
Physical landscape - Geology, rivers etc
Demography - Ages, ethnicity, gender
Socio-Economic - Employment, income
Cultural - Religion, tradition
Political - Government, council
Built environment - Age/style of buildings material etc.
What are the two contrasting places (place profile) case studies?
Lympstone - Devon on river Exe
Toxteth - Liverpool, river Mersey
What are the natural characteristics like in Lympstone?
Tidal mudflats, coastal, extends into the river Exe estuary, rural and ideal for trade due to river
What are the natural characteristics like in Toxteth?
North edge of River Mersey, gentle undulating land and woodland and streams, good for faming and hunting as well as trade
What was the early/past identity like in Lympstone?
The location on the river meant:
13th century : Trading ports with cross - channel links, good for fishing and shell fish farming
19th century : Shipbuilding + fishing
Mid 19th century: Tourism of coast - wealthy Victorians, so accommodations were built (Swann inn)
19th century onwards: Listed buildings so strict planning rules
What was the early/past identity like in Toxteth?
Toxteth location close to river Mersey meant:
11th Century - Fishing for Saxons meant an early settlement was built
13th century - Undulating land + forest was good for hunting
18th Century- Streams allowed for cottage industry
18th century - Port allowed for trade as well as slave trading.
How did time space compression affect lympstone?
Railway in 1861 allowed fishermen to sell products easier.
More tourism, easy access to Exeter
Railway 20th century: Key infrastructure for commuting. Allowed for semi detached housing in suburbs for dormitory settlers who live in Lympsotne but work in Exeter for example.
What were the effects of the port in Toxteth growing in the 18th-19th century?
Increased wealth - Changed the demography and built environment. Shift in flows of people + finance example:
Population grew due to economic growth, Georgian houses built for rich slave merchants which led to cheap terraced housing for the middle class on the urban fringe
What is the present day demography of Lympstone?
99% white, elderly population
What is the present day demography of Toxteth?
Diverse ethnicity (78% white) most of the age between 16-24 due to migrant workers coming into the city (shifting flows of people)
What is the present day socio-economic characteristics like in Toxteth?
Higher average household size, higher ownership percentage, lower rented percentage, lower % with no access to cars, and lower % of people with bad education compared to Toxteth
What is the present day socio-economic characteristics like in Toxteth?
1960-70 agriculture dominated the employment, migrant workers in the city centre for cheaper housing and poor jobs. Education is poor and more rented housing
What are the present day culture/religion characteristics like in Toxteth?
Diverse ethnicity - Muslim festivals of Eid, Ramadan, Christian worship.
What are the present day culture/religion characteristics like in Lympstone?
Christian community, parish church
What are the present day political characteristics like in Lympstone?
Parish council - Local issues
District council East Devon - More power, council tax, local planning, recycling etc
County council Devon - Education, transport etc
What are the present day political characteristics like in Toxteth?
Liverpool ward riverside
National government (Labour)
Past influence of politics - Merseyside development cooperation (A regeneration project set up by national government to regenerate the riverside of Toxteth)
What is the built environment like in Lympstone?
Exeter science park + Exeter university - People work there and live in Lympstone. Listed buildings preserved, suburbs are where the houses are
What is the built environment like in Toxteth?
Georgian and terraced housing built on greenfield sites, highly populated.
What are the shifting resources and ideas like in Lympstone? (Present and past)
Shift to tertiary and quaternary industry.
Knowledge economy - data analysis. Met office built
Science park build - Providing research and quaternary jobs
What are the shifting resources and ideas like in Toxteth? (Present and past)
Economic decline - The port is on the wrong side of the UK for trading with the EU so closed down.
Deindustrialisation, less workers needed/ move abroad/elsewhere. Led to unemployment which caused the Toxteth riots
Tate Liverpool - Rebrand docks as area for tourists which gave it the city of culture.
What are 5 factors influencing perceptions of place?
Age - Perceptions differ with age
Gender - Women and men differ in places
Sexuality - Comfortability to express sexuality
Religion - Spiritually significance
Role - Student, Daughter, Parent, Team member will have different perceptions
How do emotions influence perception of place?
Social and personal experiences -
Positive experience = Emotional attachment
- From a group/community such as a football team will have a strong emotional attachment to that community and therefore that place
- Effect behaviour - Auschwitz - Sad, shocked so therefore respectful etc
What is the case study for emotional attachment to a homeland?
The kurds
Who are the Kurds?
An ethnic group across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. There are about 28-30 million in the heartland, making them the largest stateless nations
What are the Kurds doing that show a strong emotional connection to their homeland?
Armed conflict with Turkish forces
Protests by diaspora in other countries
Persecution in Iraq
What are some examples of informal sources that represent a place?
Films
Graffiti
TV soaps
Photos
Music
Informal - Subjective and usually qualitative
What are some examples of formal sources that represent a place?
Census
Road network
Rainfall totals
Formal - Objective and usually quantitative
What is globalisation?
Way in which the world is becoming more interconnected and intertwined - Economically, Socially, Politically, and Culturally
What is a global village?
The world has become smaller due to interconnections, flows of goods and people and technology so acts like a village that is global
What is social inequality?
Social inequality is the unequal distribution of factors such as income, education or health across a population
What is QoL and SoL?
Quality of life- People needs and desires are met. General “well-being”. Both economic and psychological
Standard of living- The ability of having access to services, food, water, shelter. Based on levels of income.
What is the difference between poverty and deprivation?
Poverty = Not enough money for a decent SoL
Deprivation = A lack of resources and opportunities for individuals in an area. Not enough money for education, healthcare etc.
What is relative poverty and absolute poverty?
Absolute = Household income is below $1.90 a day
Relative - Living with less than 60% of median income
What is the cycle of deprivation?
Where one factor causes a multiplier effect and deprivation gets worse eg:
Poor education - poor job - Poor income- Poor housing - Poor education repeats
What is the index of multiple deprivation and what does it do?
Allows us to compare relative levels of deprivation in small neighbourhoods called lower super output area (LSOA).
It uses income, education, health, crime etc to do so.
1-10 scale. 1 being most deprived 10 being least.
What are 5 ways used to measure social inequality?
Income
Housing
Healthcare
Education
Employment
What are the three main ways to measure income?
Absolute poverty
Relative poverty
Gini coefficient
What is the gini coefficient?
Used to measure income distribution. The higher the number, the greater the gap between the incomes of the countries rich and poor
What is PPP?
Purchasing Power Priority - Relates to the cost of obtaining goods and services to local costs. Eg bread cost is different in different countries
What are three ways of measuring housing inequality?
Quality of housing
House price
Housing tenure
Informal settlements
How does housing influence social inequality?
Create ill health in poor housing
In AC’s the price of housing relates to income
Regeneration causes gentrification pushing poorer people out as they cant pay the higher prices
What are 4 ways of measuring healthcare inequality?
Number of doctors per 1000
Unequal access to healthcare
Life expectancy
Diet
Air pollution
What are four ways of measuring education inequality?
Variations in literacy - Globally
Grades - Nationally
Informal education eg learning skills that cannot be measured
Inequalities of access to education between genders as well as differences between countries
What are three ways of measuring employment inequality?
Unemployment rates
Income levels (AC’s nationally)
Informal employment (EDC’s, LIDC’s)
What is the human development index?
A way of measuring average achievement in human development. Has 3 dimensions: long, healthy life, knowledge, and standard of living.
0.8-1 = AC
0.5-0.79 = EDC
0-0.49 = LIDC
What is global shift?
The locational movement of manufacturing productions in particular from AC’s to EDC’s and LIDC’s from the 1970’s onwards.
What are the four sectors of industry and give examples.
Primary - Fishing, Farming, Mining
Secondary - Manufacturing
Tertiary - Retail, Healthcare, Finance
Quaternary - Science, Reasearch
What is the NIDL (New International Division of Labour) ?
A process where production is no longer limited to one country and can be spread but spatially across a global scale due to telecommunications and containerisation. Reduces costs for TNC’s
What are TNC’s?
Transnational corporation who are key players in changing the economy.
What is offshoring and outsourcing?
Offshoring - TNC’s move parts of their production processes to other countries to reduce costs
Outsourcing - TNC’s contract another company to produce goods and services so they dont have to move
What is deindustrialisation and what are the consequences of it?
The decline in importance of manufacturing in an economy due to global shift
Problems:
Unemployment
Brownfield derelict sites
Pollution
De-Multiplier effect
What is the de-multiplier effect in the case of de-industrialisation
High unemployment rates
Less disposable income
Local services shut down
Further job loss
Repeat