Changing places Flashcards
(45 cards)
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location
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- Coordinates on a map
- Exact geographical location
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Locale
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- A place that has been shaped by people, cultures and customs
- Unlike location, it takes into account the effect people have on places
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Sense of place
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- The emotional attachment people have to a place
- Changes from person to person (different perspectives)
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Placelessness
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- The idea a particular landscape could be anywhere as it lacks uniqueness
- Weakens the identity of places e.g. McDonald’s (chain stores)
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Insiders
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- People who feel they belong in a certain place
- Person’s home
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Outsiders
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- People who feel out of place
- People who feel they don’t belong
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Features of insiders
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- Born in the area
- Fluent in language
- Safe and secure
- Permanent resident (passport)
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Features of outsiders
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- Born elsewhere, foreign
- Not fluent in language
- Alienated
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Place attachment
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The emotional bond between a person and a place
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Factors forming place attachment
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- Family/friends
- Religion
- Gender
- Age
- Experiences
- Morals
- Ethnicity
- Education
- Interests
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Relationship between experience and attachment
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- More experience/intensity of experience
- = more attachment to a place
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Categories of place
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- Near / Far
- Experienced / Media
- Public / Private
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Near place
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- Feels like home
- Feels secure
- Forms national identity
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Far place
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- Place we see as foreign, alien, different
- Racist ideologies / mocking terms
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Experienced place
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- Place you have spent time in
- When they visit/live in a place their experiences shape their sense of place
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Media place
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- Not been to but have created a sense of place through their description in the media
- e.g Africa is depicted as orange/golden with acacia trees because of books/movies (lion king)
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Example of private place
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Zucotti Park - New York
- Open to the public 24 hours a day
- Regulations when putting up tents
- Difficult to define as it is private and public
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Example of public place
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Phnom Penh National Stadium
- No regulations
- Open to the public
- People selling food
- People taking baths in buckets
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Endogenous factors
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- Internal factors that help shape the character of a place
- Physical and human features
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Example of endogenous factors
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- Land use
- Demographic
- Nature / Landscape
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Exogenous factors
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- External factors that help shape the character of a place
- The relations that a place has with other places that affect its characteristics
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Example of exogenous factors
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Movement of:
- People
- Resources
- Money
- Investment
- Ideas
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Factors influencing place
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- Location
- Built environment
- Physical geography (topography)
- Economic characteristics
- Demographic
- Infrastructure
- Land use
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Positives / Negatives of migration within the EU
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+ Fish processing in Scotland and farm work in East Anglea = benefited from labour, new shops
- Schools struggle with large numbers of children and children having English as a second language
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Why ethnic minorities suffer exclusion
- Feel uncomfortable as they are the minority in an area
- e.g. Malborough is 93% white
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Groups which suffer exclusion
- Ethnic minorities
- LGBT communities
- Homeless
- Disabled
- Age
- Immigrants
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Why LGBT communities suffer exclusion
People have opposing views and may be unwelcoming / uneducated
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Why disabled people suffer exclusion
May not be able to access certain areas e.g. stairs
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Why immigrants suffer exclusion
Media portrays them negatively - negatively viewed by a population
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Formal representation
- Facts
- objective
- quantitative
- statistical data e.g. Census or Geospatial data (GIS)
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Examples of formal representation
Census data, OS map
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Evaluation of formal representation
+ Quantitative data is non-bias and easy to interpret
- Doesn't show an actual representation of a place
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Informal representation
- Not accurate representation
- creative
- related with certain groups in society
e.g. Beijing Olympics - one-child policy is hidden
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Examples of informal representation
- Art
- Media
- Tv
- Film
- Photos
- Music
- Murals
- Graffiti
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Evaluation of Informal Representation
+ Can be changed for context
- Subjective
- Data may be interpreted differently
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Place identity
- How people experience a place
- The meaning people give to a place
- Identity can be evident at a local, regional and national scale
- Different perspectives / conflicting views
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Clone town
- Losing their place identity
- e.g. Queens Mead, Farnborough, doesn't represent Farnborough's history
- TNCs / Chain stores can afford rent and local shops are pushed out (Tumble Down Dick)
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Government policies
- Big impact on demographic characteristics of a place (one-child policy)
- Cultural characteristics (Germany)
- Social and economic characteristics
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Government policy - Germany
- 1960s German government invited Turkish people to live and work in Germany
- Now has many aspects of Turkish culture
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Government policy - Hulme
- 1992 regeneration of Hulme
- Local council aimed to increase population as well as employment rates and quality of life
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Multinational corporations
Impacted demographic, social and economic characteristics e.g. Detroit, USA
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Detroit
- Once a global centre of car manufacturing, factories gave the city an economic boost
- Large number of migrants for jobs
- Recession = industries moved to cheaper countries = massive population decline (over half)
- 1.8m (1950s) to 700,000 (2010)
- employment reduced 2010 = 24.8% of the workforce was unemployed
- Some of US highest crime rates
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International / global institutions
- World Food Programme
- World Bank
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World Food Programme
- Provides emergency food
- Prevents death from famine (social)
- Provided aid to millions of people in Yemen since 2015
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World Bank
- Invests in and sets up thousands of projects which aim to reduce poverty
- Between 2010 and 2015, provided funding to Nirgbo New Countryside Development project in China
- Improved social conditions of area by providing clean wastewater disposal to 144 villages
