JUST CASE STUDIES

Question 1

Glastonbury

Answer 1

Location - 51N 02W
Locale - area of natural beauty, historically important
Sense of place - festival of which 200,000 people a year attend

Question 2

Snowdone

Answer 2

360,000 visitors a year

Question 3

Trafalgar square

Answer 3

Mixture of material and non material sources

Material - statue of lord nelson
Non material - Animal rebellion protests, Olympic 2012 bid

Question 4

Arab springs

Answer 4

Nationalists, 2010, a Tunisian man set himself on fire spreading outrage across Northern Africa and the Middle East

Question 5

Cornwall NIMBY

Answer 5

Localists, with own language, currency and political party

“A place for everything and everything has its place”

Question 6

London

Answer 6

Good at creating a sense of belonging
300 languges
40% non uk born
Largest Chinese new year festival

Question 7

What percentage of national park visitors aren’t white (don’t belong)

Answer 7

1%

Question 8

Totnes

Answer 8

2012 costa tried to open

42 independent coffee shops

Area of outstanding natural beauty

75% of people said no - they won

Caused conflict - they also have a Superdrug and WHSmith

Question 9

Mcarabia

Answer 9

Chicken in flatbread, no pork allowed in Saudi Arabia

Body shop from California in South Africa

Question 10

Rural idyllic

Answer 10

Perceived as happy, healthy and clean

Unemployment, Homeless, No transport

Question 11

Notting Hill

Answer 11

riots in 1958, one of Londons largest slums, now houses cost £2 million on average, while the area has less crime its completely lost its sense of place

(Could also mention LDDC)

Question 12

Medellin

Answer 12

Most dangerous city in the world until Pablo Escobar died in 1993, now they are aiming for sustainable development

BRT
Education and integration

Question 13

Cadbury

Answer 13

1879 they moved to Bourneville
2010 they were adopted by KRAFT FOODS and opened a factory in Poland

Question 14

Weston super mare

Answer 14

Social media
Logo
Website
Christmas market

Question 15

Belfast

Answer 15

30 year troubles, where “bombs, bullets and balaclavas dominated headlines” until the 1998 peace agreement

• Over 100 large TNC’s like Microsoft
• 9.5 million visitors in 2013
• Titanic tourism boom, however most come to see the peace walls

Question 16

Amsterdam

Answer 16

Suffered major decline after the war, failed olympic bid and liberal views on sex and drugs

2004 - “I am Amsterdam” was put outside the countries most famous museum and is snapped 8000 times a day

It is now one of the top 5 cities to visit

Question 17

UK census

Answer 17

Last 200 years, socio-economic characteristics carried out every 10 years

Question 18

Biomapping

Answer 18

2015

Question 19

New Zealand

Answer 19

Film has brought a 50% tourism increase to the country

Question 20

Poetry

Answer 20

William Blake - “marks of weakness”
William Wordsworth - “sight so touching”