Changing Spaces; Making Places

Question 1

Place profile: demography(4)

Answer 1

•gender, age of inhabitants, ethnicity, number of inhabitants

Question 2

Place profile: physical geography( 6)

Answer 2

•altitude, aspect, geology, drainage, slope angle, river/inland

Question 3

Place profile: political (4)

Answer 3

•national, regional, local governments,housing residents association

Question 4

Place profile: cultural(4)

Answer 4

•local clubs, local traditions, societies, religion

Question 5

Place profile: built environment (5)

Answer 5

• Road layout, building materials, density of housing, age and style of buildings

Question 6

Place profile: socio-economic(4)

Answer 6

• Family status, education, employment, income

Question 7

What is a place?

Answer 7

Place has objective(a postcode or coordinates on a map) and subjective( aspect of a place humans move added)

Question 8

What is a place?

Answer 8

Place has objective(a postcode or coordinates on a map) and subjective( aspect of a place humans move added)

Question 9

What is a space?

Answer 9

Spaces have no personal meaning to a person, but is different for each person ( e.g. The ocean is a space to me but a workplace to fisherman)

Question 10

Qualities of a place:

Answer 10

Location-where on a map
Locale.- effect that people have on the place
Sense of place: subjective/emotional attachment

Question 11

Why are 1:25000 OS maps useful at sub-regional levels?

Answer 11

• Describing and explaining overall internal structure of towns and cities
• describing house type and the layout of areas
• describing local infrastructure and services
• plotting rural and urban land use
• detailed relief

Question 12

Disadvantages of 1:25000 OS maps:

Answer 12

• No visual of surrounding areas
  -quality of housing can’t be seen
• can’t see built environment
• can’t see physical landscape

Question 13

Why are 1:50000 OS maps useful at regional levels?

Answer 13

• Describing and explaining settlement patterns
• describing and explaining site and situation of settlements.
• describing the distribution of settlements across the region
• describing regional infrastructure and transport links
• describing regional physical characteristics

Question 14

How can we investigate the demography of a napped area?

Answer 14

• Census data, crime data, articles, records, files. (Secondary data)
• fieldwork(primary data)

Question 15

What is census data?

Answer 15

Data that represents the demographic of a place (employment, education, religion etc…)

Question 16

Why is census data useful?

Answer 16

Easy to compare and reference the socio economic and demographic data of an area.

Question 17

Limitations of census data:

Answer 17

-10 years difference between results of data (can become out of date quickly)
-not everyone will complete the forms on the same day (lots of room for inaccuracies)

Question 18

2 types of digital data

Answer 18

Socio economic and crime data

Question 19

2 disadvantages of digital data:

Answer 19

-misuse of information
-unreliability (websites can be hacked)

Question 20

2 advantages of digital data:

Answer 20

-easy to access/acquire faster
-cost effective

Question 21

What is crowd source data?

Answer 21

-a participatory method of building a database with the help of a large group of people (e.g. Wikipedia)

Question 22

Example of crowd source data

Answer 22

Twitter: Coca Cola crowd sourced a new flavour via twitter.

Question 23

4 disadvantages of crowd source data:

Answer 23

-often difficult to scale as it can be challenging to manage and coordinate a large number if anonymous contributors
-questioned reliability
-potential for exploitation
-security and privacy risks