Deck 7 - Regenerating Places: Place, perceptions and economic changes

Question 1

What is regeneration?

Answer 1

Regeneration is the long-term upgrading of a place with the aim of benefiting its economic and social characteristics.

Question 2

What does rebranding mean?

Answer 2

Rebranding involves deliberately reinventing a place for economic reasons and marketing it with a new identity to attract new investors.

Question 3

What does re-imaging mean?

Answer 3

Reimaging is the remodelling of areas to counter negative perceptions, providing new functions such as retailing, leisure, and tourism.

Question 4

Define place

Answer 4

Places are geographical spaces shaped by individuals and communities over time.

Question 5

What factors influence places to change?

Answer 5

They evolve through a combination of human activities, cultural influences, and environmental factors, reflecting the history and identity of the area.

Question 6

What does place attachment mean?

Answer 6

Place attachment refers to the emotional bond between a person and a place.

Question 7

How is place attachment influenced by personal experiences?

Answer 7

It is highly influenced by an individual’s personal experiences, including memories, relationships, and significant events associated with the location.

Question 8

What two components make up a sense of belonging?

Answer 8

Spatial sense of attachment to place and/or attachment to a social group.

Question 9

How does place attachment differ to sense of belonging?

Answer 9

Place attachment focuses on the individual emotional bond whereas sense of belonging extends beyond the individual to the community.

Question 10

What is formal representation?

Answer 10

Formal representation are hard facts they are usually shown as statistics such as the census.

Question 11

What is informal representation?

Answer 11

Informal representation is more subjective than formal representation, it can be shown as songs, films, newspaper articles to name a few.

Question 12

What does perception mean?

Answer 12

A persons view of a place or issue based on feelings, experience and outside forces such as the media.

Question 13

What does economic diversification mean?

Answer 13

The transition away from being dependent on one sector and branching out into others (e.g. farmers selling produce in a farm shop)

Question 14

What does the built environment mean?

Answer 14

The buildings and infrastructure within an urban area.

Question 15

What does the Clark Fisher model show?

Answer 15

The Clark-Fisher model shows that as an economy advances, the proportion of people employed in each sector changes.

Question 16

What does a primary industry mean?

Answer 16

An industry involved in the production of extraction of natural resources.

Question 17

What does a secondary industry mean?

Answer 17

The portion of an economy that includes light and heavy industrial manufacturers of finished goods and products from raw materials.

Question 18

What does a tertiary industry mean?

Answer 18

Consists of industries which provide a service, such as transport and finance

Question 19

What does a quaternary industry mean?

Answer 19

The portion of an economy based on knowledge applicable to some business activity that usually involves the provision of services.

Question 20

What does function mean?

Answer 20

The function is what a place is known for it often shapes the economic activity and identity of a place.

Question 21

What does an industrial function mean?

Answer 21

A location whose economy and reputation is predominantly based on its industrial capacity, this type of function has generally moved abroad.

Question 22

What does an administrative function mean?

Answer 22

Places that make decisions about how to organise infrastructure and economic activity for the surrounding areas. Administrative places tend to be cities and town that influence the borough/region surrounding them, this has often become more centralised

Question 23

What does an commerical function mean?

Answer 23

A location with strong business influence; many TNCs may have bases here and there is a large volume of small- and large-scale businesses. Areas are often now found nearer to connections such as motorways with the introduction of science parks and estates

Question 24

What does a retail function mean?

Answer 24

A town or city with attractive retail facilities - markets, shopping centres, unique shops. The retail industry is the main source of income and employment for locals. Retail has often been moved to out of town or shopping is done online.