CSMP Flashcards
Factors that make up a place
Natural (physical) - geology and altitude
Demographics - age and gender
Socio economic - income and education
Culture - religious celebrations and places of worship
Political - local regional and national government
Built environment - age and style of buildings
Influences of a place profile
Past and present connections
Shifting flows of people (migration)
Resources - like electronic communication
Money and investment - gov spending on infrastructure education and health
Governments
Local - town councils
Regional - USA individual states
national - responsible for a gov in a country
Transnational- EU
Factors that lead to people perceiving a place in different ways
Influence of age
- life cycle stage - young adults , less room location near work good shops and night life. Families space and garden and parks.
Influence of gender
-safe or unsafe will be perceived differently
Influence of sexuality
-whether a place is accepting due to the amount of LGBT venues and pubs.
Influence of religion
-churches and sense of belonging.
Emotional attachment to a place
Memory
Not necessarily visit e.g concentration camps
Diaspora (spread of people from homeland.
Globalisation and time space compression can alter a sense of a place
Due to transport and communication advances brought closer together.
TSC - a shrinking world due to distance between places reducing e.g travel time
Representing a place informally
Media, TV , film e.g eastenders
Representing a place formally
Data that’s stored collected and analysed, geospatial data , census
Social inequality
The different access to housing, healthcare , education , employment and standard of living …
How can social inequality be measured
Census and index of multiple deprivation in the UK- coming income health education crime and housing
Measures of social inequality
Income
housing
Education
Employment
Healthcare
Access to services (number , how easy to get to)
How globalisations brings about structural economic change
One consequence of globalisation is global shift ( movement of manufacturing production from ACs to EDCs and LIDCs )
Impacts of structural economic change
Mines and factories closed in ACs - job losses - Narrow jobs like engineering on ships and textiles - North east eng and France - better air quality and better health
Impacts of booms and recessions
Economic status of a place are fairly static
Boom - usually with tech innovation and new industries , opportunities exist for p pole with skills. E.g California
Recessions - when tech is no longer new, the more educated cope better and with a diverse economic base.
The role of the government in patterns of social inequality
AC - governments spend on areas like health, pensions and educations. Ageing population is problem with healthcare and pensions, large inequalities as level of pension depends on multiple factors (house own)
LIDC- lack resources and organisation to help.
Gov rely on funding through taxes and borrowing
