GC

Question 1

what does GRASP stand for?

Answer 1

Gender
Religion
Age
Sexuality
role Performed

Question 2

An Example of Gender?

Answer 2

Women stereotypically at home
Geographies of fear- men and women feel unsafe in certain places e.g alleyway

Question 3

An example of Religion

Answer 3

Ka’bah’ - Mecca - Muslims

Question 4

Example of age

Answer 4

Children - more fun places are now boring as adults

Question 5

Example of Sexuality

Answer 5

Cluster communities feel safer around people like themselves

Question 6

Example of role performed

Answer 6

Parent, child, grandparent

Question 7

Define Globalisation

Answer 7

The growing interdependence and integration of peoples lives with social, political and environmental components

Question 8

Define World Village

Answer 8

The world is getting smaller and more interconnected

Question 9

Define time-space compression (TSC)

Answer 9

A set of processes leading to a ‘shrinking world’, caused by reductions in relative distance between places eg. travel time

Question 10

2 postitives of TSC

Answer 10

Homogenised landscapes can create perceptions of familiarity in new places

New diversity in places can create a new sense of a place

Question 11

2 positives of TSC

Answer 11

Homogenised landscapes can create perceptions of familiarity in new places

New diversity in places can create a new sense of a place

Question 12

2 negatives of TSC

Answer 12

Can threaten a places unique factors

Due to homogenised landscapes it means that local places are replaced by TNCs and lose identity

Question 13

what is an informal agency?

Answer 13

Has context of the place and represents through sight and sound. e.g TV shows, Films

Question 14

What is a formal agency?

Answer 14

Closely linked with statistics and data that describes a particular place. e.g Census

Question 15

What is social inequality?

Answer 15

the unequal distribution of wealth, power, or prestige among members of a society

Question 16

What is the Clark-Fisher model?

Answer 16

A model to explain the changes in employment structures as countries develop their economies

Question 17

What are the 3 stages of the Clark fisher model?

Answer 17

Pre-Industrial - reliant on primary sector, secondary and tertiary jobs increasing

Industrial - primary sector declines, secondary peaks and tertiary is increasing

Post- Industrial - Secondary starts to plateau, primary declines even further, tertiary peaks and Quaternary starts to grow

Question 18

4 stages of economic growth?

Answer 18

Boom
Recession
Trough
Recovery

Question 19

How can governments influence social inequality?

Answer 19

Governments can cut spending in certain areas and fund others.

E.g cutting funding to schools and NHS

Question 20

What is a public player?

Answer 20

An economic player that operates at a large scale

e.g the EU or UK government

Question 21

What is a Private Player?

Answer 21

includes a number of wide range players trying to generate money and investment

e.g McDonalds

Question 22

what is rebranding?

Answer 22

Developments aimed at changing negative perceptions of a place making it more attractive to investment

Question 23

What is re-imaging?

Answer 23

It seeks to discard negative perceptions of place + generate new positive ideas/feelings/attitudes of people to that place. e.g. the revival of a pre-existing but outdated image

Question 24

What is regeneration?

Answer 24

A long term process that includes social, economic and environmental development to create sustainable communities

Question 25

6 Parts of rebranding

Answer 25

Architecture
Heritage use
Retail
Art
Sport
Food