Booklet 2 - Relationships and Connections between Places Flashcards
(13 cards)
Types of Factors
- Natural Disaster
- Political Change
- Migration
- Gentrification
- Urbanisation/Suburbanisation
- Conflict/Terrorism
- Olympics/Major Sporting Events
- Globalisation
Definition of Factors
Processes/events/characteristics of places which influence either continuity or change.
Types of Actors
- Governments
- TNCs
- IGOs
- NGOs
- Developers/Private Corporations
- Political Activists/Protestors
- Community Groups/Religious Groups
- Individuals/Residents
Definition of Actors
People, organisations (at a range of scales) that influence continuity and change.
How Shifting Flows affect Place Demographics
Money + Investment:
Governments can invest money into areas to encourage them to live there.
People:
Can change age balance, gender balance, ethnic balance.
Ideas + Resources:
Use of birth control reduces the brith rate, population size. Prevents rapid population growth.
How Shifting Flows affect Cultural Characteristics
Money, Investment and Ideas:
Fast Food companies from the USA opening restaurants in China in the 1980s/1990s. Changed Chinese eating habits, with more people favouring Western style food.
People:
New people visiting a place or moving there bring their culture with them.
How Shifting Flows affect Economic Change
Resources:
Outward flow of local products or natural resources. products that used to be consumed locally or regionally now sold to global markets.
People:
Visitors can change economic characteristics through tourism. Changes the types of jobs available.
Money + Investment:
Positive and Negative impacts on economic characteristics. Offshoring and Outsourcing can lead to a lack of industry in HICs, but growing opportunities in LICs and NEEs
How Shifting Flows can cause Social Inequality
Resources:
Large amounts of oil extracted in Warri, Nigeria exported to the World. Most of the wealth goes to a few individuals whilst large numbers remain in poverty.
People:
Regional migration from rural to urban areas in poorer countries has changed social characteristics and social inequality.
Money + Investment:
Gentrification has improved social characteristics but can increase inequality.
Urban Regeneration Definition
Policies and practices designed to deal with problems such as urban decline and decay.
Gentrification Definition
The displacement of the working and workless poor and other marginalised groups by wealthier individuals.
Liverpool’s Past Connections with other places
- Queen’s Way Tunnel (longest in the World) 1934
- Passenger Steam railway opened connecting Liverpool and Manchester - extended into the city centre (regional scale)
- 4.75 million emigrated to the Americas went through Liverpool (Majority of European Migrants)
- In the 1830s to the 1930s, 9 million came to and from Liverpool
- Built on Slavery
- Second City of Empire
- World in One City
- Cultural Heritage Protected
Liverpool’s Current Connections with other places
- Music was exported around the World. UNESCO World City of music in 2015
- Migration is also still represented in the diverse ethnicity of the city
- Built Environment has stayed the same in places - decks have been repurposed
- International Slavery Museum
How Connections have Shaped Liverpool Today
- Money from the slave trade has impacted the built environment
- Maritime Mercantile city status by UNESCO from 2004-2021 (lost due to the proposed development of the North Shore)
- Musical influence on a global stage
- Merseyside Pride
