Relationships and Connections with place Flashcards
List 3 key factors in exploring rural change in the UK
- improvements in transport
- increased standards of living
- decreased size of households
What is counter-urbanisation?
People moving out of the cities into rural settlements and areas.
What type of people are moving into rural settlements in the UK?
Families, commuters, retired people and careerists
How does Louis Wirth describe urban lifestyles?
They are impersonal, superficial, transitory and segmented.
Who describes urban lifestyles as ‘impersonal, superficial, transitory and segmented’ ?
Louis Wirth
What does Ray Pahl say about urban and rural landscapes?
Urban and rural are more remarkable for their ability top confuse than their power to illuminate’
What are suburbanised villages?
Villages that are at the edge of towns and cities that many people move to.
How could urban landscapes be described as homogenised?
Becoming more similar and less unique due to globalisation and TNC’s moving there.
What factors have led to the homogenisation of urban landscapes?
Improvements in ICT, migration and time-space convergence
Where is Seoul?
Capital of South Korea
Where is Detroit?
In Michigan, The USA
What evidence is there that Seoul is homogenised?
Global firms there, like mcdonalds and Samsung
What evidence is there that Seoul is independent?
Restoration of murals along the Cheong Gye Cheon river.
How has Detroit changed over time?
In 1960 the highest per capita income in the USA and in 2013 went bankrupt as a city.
