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Why do people interact with places differently?

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It depends on how the place is perceived

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What is location?

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Where a place is e.g co-ordinates

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What is Locale?

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How places are effected by people

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What is sense of place?

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The emotional attchment that people have to a place

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What are the three famous geographers in relation to ‘place’ and what do they believe?

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1 - Dorren massey - Place has lots of different meanings

2 - Y Fu Tuan - Space is freedom, place is security

3 - Tim Cresswell - He considers the social and cultural significance of place

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What do we mean by a destructive approach?

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It is the idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct

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What do we mean by a social constructionist approach, example?

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This is the idea that place is a product of a particular set of social processes occuring at a particular time

e.g Trafalgar Square was built to commemorate a British naval victory and therefore, using a social constructionist approach, could be seen as a place of Colonialism

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What do we mean by a phenomenological approach?

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This is interested in how individuals experience place

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What is the location of Glastonbury? (2)

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1 - In SW England

2 - 510N 30S

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What is the Locale of glastonbury? (3)

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1 - Is historically rich due to King Arthur

2 - Associated with magic due to it’s connections with the sorcerer, Merlin

3 - Associated with partying due to the masses of festival goers at Glastonbury festival

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What is Glastonburys sense of place? (2)

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1 - Festival goers may view Glastonbury as an escape

2 - Religious due to it’s assocation with Paganism

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What are three ways that foster a sense of local place? (3)

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1 - Local newspaper

2 - Playing/watching sport

3 - Attending local events

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How does a Local newspaper foster a sense of local place?

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1 - Learn about new developments and events, making you feel ‘in the loop’

2 - It influences you as feels personal

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How does Playing/Watching sports foster a sense of local place? (2)

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1 - may know people on the team so feel a connection

2 - Promotes togetherness as the locals all supproting the same team

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How does Attending local events foster a sense of local place? (2)

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1 - Supproting local economy

2 - Promotes social cohesion

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What is localism? (2)

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1 - Concerned with your specific place

2 - Triggers NIMBYism

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Regionalism? (2)

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1 - You have a sense of loyalty attached to a place

2 - You are informed on a local area

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What is Nationalism?

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Having a loyalty to a nation which creates a snese of national consiouness

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What does placemaking mean?

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It is the deliberate shaping of a place to facilitate social intercation and improve a communit’s quality of life

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What is homogenisation of place?

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Places becoming identical or very similar

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What is a clone town?

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Settlements where the high street is dominated by chain stores

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What does glocalisation mean? (2)

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1 - Local places and cultures resisting the power of globalisation

2 - This forces MNC’s to adapt to the local marketplace

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What is localisation of place?

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The promotion of local goods and services and a greater focus on local place

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What is the differnce between race and ethnicity when considering belonging? (2)

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1 - Race based on biological charcteristcs e.g skin colour

2 - Ethnicity is beloning to a social group that has common national or cultural traditions

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What is Trophophobia?
Fear of place
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What is tropophilia?
Love of place
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What are Endogenous factors?
Factors within a place that help shape it's charcater e.g aging population
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What are Exogenous factors?
Factors from outside a place that force a change in a places character e.g migration
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What are media places?
Places we experienc only be media/films
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What are Far and Near places?
Far - Don't know well Near - Know alot about - resident
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How has our relationship with far and near places changing? (2)
1 - Due to time-space convergence far places coming 'nearer' than places that are georaphically closer to us
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What is the time-space convergence?
The process by which distant places are brought closer together in terms of the time taken to travel between them
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What is placenessess?
Places becoming increasinging similar and tell us vey little about there location
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What are Public vs Private places?
Public - A place where there are behavourial expectations Private - No behavioual restrictions as long as they abide by the law
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What is a Freehold house?
When you own the house and the land it is on
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How does our experinece of a place change our perception of the place? (2)
It turns undifferniated space into place It can make the place seem 'nearer'
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What is the rural extreme?
Gemeinschaft - inward looking, unchanged, traditional
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What is the urban extreme?
Gessellschaft - fast paced, ever changing
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What is the rural-urban continum?
You can't label a place as wholey urban or rural, many places are a mixture
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What is the differnce between and insider? (3)
1 - Somone who is familair with the rhythm and surroundings of the place 2 - This can make them feel at home 3 - However, somone can be experinced with the place but not feel at home e.g minorities
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What is an outsider?
1 - Somone who is unfamiliar with the place 2 - People who are experiences of the place can also be outsiders e.g minorties
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What was the Occupy wall street movement?
A group opposing to social an economic inequality through the occuptaion of wall street
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When was the Occupy wall street?
17th Sep 2011
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What is meant by the phrase 'we are the 99%' made up the occupy wall street movement?
Refers to the increased concentration of income and wealth among the top 1% of earners in the USA
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What was the importance of the occupy movement?
It raised awarness about the wealth inequalities and the widening gap between the rich and poor
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What is the character of a place?
The physical and human features that help to distinguish it from another place
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what are the factors that impact on the character of a place? (5)
1 - Migration 2 - Terrorism 3 - Industrial accidents 4 - Natural disasters 5 - Climate change
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What are the three main agents of change that impact a place? (3)
1 - Government policies 2 - The decisions of MNC's 3 - The decisons of interntaional global institution
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What is an example of a Government policies that have impacted place? (2)
1 - Regeneration schemes 2 - Financial incentives for industries such as subsidies, tax breaks and enterpirse zones (area which offers incentives)
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What are some examples of decisions of MNC's that have impacted place? (2)
1) **2016 Tata Steel** - announces UK job cuts due to difficult global market conditions 2) **2011 Cadbury** - Somerdale Cadbury factory nera Bristol moves to Poland
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What are examples of the decisions of Global institutions? (3)
1 - **2015 World Bank** - 15 development projects in Haiti post earthquake 2 - **2000 UN Millennium Development goals** - Improve global quality of life (varied sucess) 3 - **2015 Sustainable development goals**
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What are the factors affecting the character of a place? (5)
1 - Socio-economic 2 - Cultural 3 - Political 4 - Physical Geography 5 - Demographic
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Describe how **Bournville village, Birrmingham** has changed? (3)
**1 - External agent of change** - The Cadburys set up factories and houses and brought workers **2 - C****hange** - This increase in population, influenced the village trust to set up numerous facilities and large areas of grassland - became a 'garden suburn' **3 -** **Since then little change occured** - traditions of growing local produce remain + building tightly controlled, keeping areas of greenland
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Describe how Medellin, Columbia has changed? (3)
**1 - External agent of change-** Pablo Escobar brought durgs, crime, social inequality **2 - Change -** Long term investments in infastructure + education e.g - Intergration of social classes - poorest can acess economc center by Metroplus bus - Educational + social budgets increased **3** - Still inequalities and high crime rates **but** optimism and reduced poverty
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Describe how **Devonport, Plymouth** has changed? (5)
**1 - External agent of change** - Was a naval dockyard + prosperous but WW2 brought changes **2 -** **Change:** - **Navy split town with 3m high wall**, to turn it into a storage enclave: Displaced residents rehoused in housing inapropriate for families - **Military cutbacks:** Loss of naval jobs **3** - **New deal for communities inititive** - Funded education, health, housing etc facilities **4** - Dividing wall removed + area developed **5** - Still pockets of deprivation but overall area improved
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What is a footloose industry?
An industry that can be placed and located at any location without effect from factors such as resources or transport.
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What is counter-urbanisation?
The movement away from large urban settlements to smaller urban settlements and rural settlements.
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Some villages lose their character whilst other villages are able to maintain their character. Why is there this difference?
It depends on there distance from large urban areas, and therefore how acceable the villiage is
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What are New / Overspill towns?
Towns that accomodate the urban workforce and are self supporting
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What is linear development?
When large towns and cities grow outwards along roads
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What are suburbanised villiages?
Dormitory or commuter villages with residents emplyed in urban area
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What is a steback of a villiage lying on the extreme rural scale?
May beocme targets of 2nd home ownership as people can't live there permantly due it's poor acess to their jobs in urban areas

Geog - Paper 2 (Changing places + fieldwork) (3 decks)

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