What is a place?
Geographical spaces shaped by individuals and communities over time.
What are some factors of a place?
- To describe area or location
- Can be artificial urban place or modified rural landscape
- Varies in characteristics
- Are shaped by internal and external connections
- Place boundaries can be fixed or fluid
- It has different meanings to different people
- Places are always changing - sometimes rapidly, sometimes slowly
What 4 scales are driving change in places?
- Regional
- National
- Global
- International
What are the 4 economic sectors?
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary
- Quaternary
What is primary economic sector?
Extraction of raw material
What is secondary economic sector?
Manufacturing and processing
What is tertiary economic sector?
Services
What is quaternary economic sector?
Technology-based jobs
What are different types of employment types?
- Informal/Formal employment
- Self employed
- Full time/Part time
- Temporary vs Permanent
What model showed the change in different economy sectors over the industrial period?
The Clark-Fisher Model
What does the Clark-Fisher Model show?
It shows the importance of different sectors, in different countries of different levels of development overtime.
What does IMD stand for?
Index of Multiple Deprivation
What can IMD show?
Levels of deprivation. It can also show the quality of life
How is IMD used?
- Used by government and local authorities to target regeneration aid, allocate resources and target hotspots of crime.
- Places are ranked by their relative level of deprivation
- Data set may be quantitative or qualitative
What 4 foci is change measured by?
- Land-Use changes
- Employment trends
- Demographic changes
- Level of deprivation
What is a problem with IMD?
An area might have different levels of deprivation but all be included into one collective sum of data
