Changing places

Question 1

What is a location?

Answer 1

A place on a map, e.g the grid reference.

Question 2

What is a locale?

Answer 2

A particular event or thing associated with a place. E.g Stratford and Shakespeare

Question 3

What is a sense of place?

Answer 3

The emotional attachment to a place

Question 4

What is the tourist gaze?

Answer 4

When tourists visit a place to get an ‘authentic’ local experience.

Question 5

Why can tourist gaze be a bad thing?

Answer 5

If people just expect stereotypes and do not respect local cultures.

Question 6

What are death sites or dark tourism?

Answer 6

Places where people are attracted by the history which often involves a tragic event

Question 7

What is an insider?

Answer 7

The perspective of someone who knows a place well and is familiar with its wha of life. They feel welcome.

Question 8

What is an outsider?

Answer 8

Someone who does not know a place well, or someone who is marginalised from the community. They feel unwelcome.

Question 9

What are some factors that makes a place ‘unique’?

Answer 9

• Culture, e.g festivals
• Physical aspects, e.g lakes, mountains.
• Landmarks
• Historical significance, e,g buildings

Question 10

What are endogenous factors?

Answer 10

Things that originate internally to an area

Question 11

What are exogenous factors?

Answer 11

External in origin. E.g migrants moving to the area and burning new culture

Question 12

What is character?

Answer 12

The physical and human factors that make it unique.

Question 13

What are some examples of endogenous factors?

Answer 13

• The relief of the land.
• Local sports club
• Ageing population
• River meander
• Fertile soil
• Parks and woodlands

Question 14

What are some examples of exogenous factors.

Answer 14

• Factory closure and jobs moving to china.
• Immigration from Poland.
• Purchase of second holiday homes
• Investment by multinational companies.

Question 15

What is function?

Answer 15

Most settlements when they first started to grow had only one distinct function, and others changed as the towns grew

Question 16

Examples of functions

Answer 16

• Port
• Education
• Religious
• Market town
• Natural resources

Question 17

What are experienced places?

Answer 17

Places we have actually visited and are familiar with

Question 18

What are media place?

Answer 18

Places we only know through watching films, TV etc..

Question 19

What is a clone town?

Answer 19

A town or city where many of the shops are the same

Question 20

What does homogenised mean?

Answer 20

When everything is the same. Means many towns have the same shops, etc

Question 21

What is Placelessness?

Answer 21

When a place lacks a unique character. When town centres have no local independent shops and only chains.

Question 22

What factors change a places character?

Answer 22

• Migration (leads to a more diverse population)
• Tourism

Question 23

What is globalisation?

Answer 23

The way which businesses, people, technology and ideas are becoming connected around the world.

Question 24

What is glocalisation?

Answer 24

When TNCs which operate around the world have to adapt to the local culture.

Question 25

What is diaspora?

Answer 25

The spread of a group of people from their original homeland

Question 26

What is place meaning?

Answer 26

The perception a visitor has of a place

Question 27

What is place representation?

Answer 27

How a place is portrayed or ‘seen’ by society. It can change due to the media

Question 28

What is place memory?

Answer 28

When places try to ‘make the past come back to life’, through presenting old architecture, ‘living’ museums, festivals, etc

Question 29

What is re imaging?

Answer 29

When a place tries do distance itself from a previous bad image

Question 30

What is re branding?

Answer 30

The way a place is marketed so it gains a new identity. This could lead to new investments and tourists.

Question 31

What are corporate bodies?

Answer 31

The organisation who does the rebrand adverts.

Question 32

Give three examples of places that had a negative image, but are now re imaging to attract more tourists

Answer 32

- Columbia - Croatia - Rwanda

Question 33

Why and how did Columbia re image?

Answer 33

- Negative image due to drug killings, kidnappings, gang violence, etc... - Re-imaged by making tourist videos that showcased beaches, jungles, cities and mountains. - They also focused on the bird life of the country, having almost 2000 species of birds

Question 34

Why and how did Croatia re image?

Answer 34

- They had a negative image due to wars and being hard to get to - Re-imaged by improving transport infrastructure into the country and made videos with the country's famous football players

Question 35

Why and how did Rwanda re image

Answer 35

- They had a bad image due to the Rwanda genocide - They re imaged by telling the story of what had happened, as well as partnering with Arsenal in the 2018/19 season to attract tourists

Question 36

What is visit England?

Answer 36

The government agency aimed at ‘selling’ a positive image of tourism (there is also Wales and Scotland)

Question 37

What is gentrification?

Answer 37

The buying and renovation of buildings in deteriorated urban areas by property developers or upper or middle income people

Question 38

Some factors that attract developers to gentrify an area

Answer 38

- Cheap property prices - Good schools in area - Good transport infrastructure - Large houses with good potential

Question 39

What are some positives of gentrification?

Answer 39

- Property can be sold for a greater profit - Affluent residents attracted back to city centre, promoting urban regeneration - An increase in users of libraries, schools, clinics and voluntary groups - Increased number of customers for inner city businesses - Urban regeneration at low cost to council

Question 40

What are some negatives of gentrification?

Answer 40

- Increased division before rich and poor - House prices too high for younger generation - Rents increased by landlords to drive out low income residents - Parking and traffic issues as more people moved there - Poorer people forced to move

Question 41

What is Big Data?

Answer 41

Information that is from the whole population, e.g government census every ten years

Question 42

What is a land registry?

Answer 42

Government records of all sales of house prices

Question 43

What are capital gains?

Answer 43

The profit made from when you renovate and sell a property.

Question 44

What are Agents of change?

Answer 44

An external group such as a government, council, business or community group that tried to change a place

Question 45

What are the three types of agents of change?

Answer 45

- Governments - Transnational corporations - International organisations

Question 46

What is a philanthropist?

Answer 46

A person who helps others by the generous donations of money to good causes