Changing Places

Question 1

What is meant by location

Answer 1

Where a place is on a map

Question 2

What is locale

Answer 2

The location of a place associated with everyday activities

Question 3

What is meant by sense of place

Answer 3

The subjective and emotional attachment to a place

Question 4

What are near places

Answer 4

Those which are close to us

Question 5

What are far places

Answer 5

Those that are distant

Question 6

What are experienced places

Answer 6

Placed that we have visited

Question 7

What are media places

Answer 7

Places we have not visited and have seen through media representations

Question 8

What is place character

Answer 8

Relates to the specific qualities, attributes or features of a location that make it unique

Question 9

What are endogenous factors examples x 8
(LTPIDBLE)

Answer 9

-land use
-topography (relief of the land)
-physical geography (natural features)
-infrastructure
-demographic characteristics (age, population…)
-built environment (architecture)
-location
-economic characteristics

Question 10

What are exogenous factors examples x 4
(PMRI)

Answer 10

-people impact (tourists, migrants)
-money and investment (trade deals, major events)
-resources (raw materials)
-ideas (entrepreneurs)

Question 11

What is an endogenous factor

Answer 11

Those which originate from within the place and are local

Question 12

What is an exogenous factor

Answer 12

Those which originate from outside a place and provide linkages and relationships with and to other places

Question 13

What are insiders

Answer 13

People from the place / feel at home at the place

Question 14

What makes you an insider x4 factors

Answer 14

-born there
-hold citizenship
-fluent in the local language
-conforms with social norms and behavioural traits

Question 15

What are outsiders

Answer 15

People not from the place / don’t feel at home at the place

Question 16

What makes someone an outsider x4 factors

Answer 16

-not accustomed to the culture, social norms or dialect
-seems unfamiliar
-not their country of origin
-different architecture

Question 17

What is gentrification

Answer 17

The process of renovation and improvement of housing in a run down area that usually leading to higher prices

Question 18

What is tourist gaze

Answer 18

When tourists visit a place to get an “authentic” local experience

Question 19

What is a death site or dark tourist location

Answer 19

Places people are often attracted to due to the history which often involves a tragic event
E.g. Chernobyl

Question 20

What gives a place a unique character x6

Answer 20

-landforms
-culture
-food
-history
-traditions
-landmarks

Question 21

What is meant by the character of a place

Answer 21

The physical and human factors that make it unique

Question 22

What is a function

Answer 22

What a place was known for that led it to grow

Question 23

What does homogenised mean

Answer 23

When everything is the same
E.g. many town have the same shops

Question 24

What is meant by placelessness

Answer 24

When a place lacks a unique character and have no independent shops

Question 25

What is a clone town

Answer 25

A town or city that is dominated by large chain firms

Question 26

What is meant by globalisation

Answer 26

The way in which businesses, people, technology and ideas are becoming interconnected around the world

Question 27

What is meant by glocalisation

Answer 27

When TNCs, such as McDonalds, that operate around the globe have to adapt to the local culture in each country

Question 28

What is meant by diaspora

Answer 28

The spread of a group of people from their original homeland E.g. polish migrants in UK

Question 29

What is meant by place meaning

Answer 29

The perception a visitor has on a place

Question 30

What is meant by place representation

Answer 30

How a place is portrayed or “seen” by society

Question 31

What is meant by place memory

Answer 31

When places try to make the “past come to life”, through preserving old architecture, “living museums”, festivals etc…

Question 32

What is reimaging

Answer 32

When a place tries to distance itself from a previous, bad image

Question 33

What is meant by rebranding

Answer 33

The way a place is marketed so it gains a new identity This could lead to new investment and tourism

Question 34

What are corporate bodies

Answer 34

The organisation who does the rebrand adverts

Question 35

Why might an area attract new incomers and become gentrified x6 factors

Answer 35

-cheap to buy -good nearby services -easy access / transport -good reputation -economic activity -opportunity for renovation

Question 36

What are some positives of gentrification x4

Answer 36

-greater profit from selling property -reduced crime -increased customer count for inner city businesses -little cost to the council

Question 37

What are some negatives of gentrification

Answer 37

-increasing social division between rich and poor -house prices increasing too rapidly -parking issues -low income groups forced out

Question 38

What is “big data” / whole data sets

Answer 38

Information that is from the whole population

Question 39

What is land registry

Answer 39

Government records of all sales of house prices

Question 40

What are the agents of change

Answer 40

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

Question 41

What are the three types of agent

Answer 41

-government -TNCs -international organisations

Question 42

What’s a philanthropist

Answer 42

A person who helps others, by generous donations of money to good causes -very common in the Victorian era

Question 43

What is qualitative data

Answer 43

Information that is non numerical E.g. a photo of a place

Question 44

What is quantitative data

Answer 44

Numerical information E.g. house prices

Question 45

How can tourist destinations and other places use technology to make areas look better

Answer 45

Use photoshop to improve the weather and remove unattractive eyesores

Question 46

How can natural factors affect how good a place looks on different days

Answer 46

The weather can affect how bright and colourful a place is

Question 47

What do marketing companies tend to focus on in their photos to attract tourists

Answer 47

Natural beauty of the landscape without human disturbance

Question 48

What is wrong with the Mercator map

Answer 48

-size of the countries are distorted -Eurocentric (Europe is in the centre) -northern hemisphere is at the top (UK was the richest at the time so got put at the top)

Question 49

How were maps historically distorted

Answer 49

Drawn in a biased or inaccurate way due to it being needed on a flat view to sail

Question 50

What could we find out about a town to give us clues at to what it is like

Answer 50

-employment / unemployment rate -house prices -population

Question 51

What is a sample

Answer 51

A small selection of data is taken from a wider group to look at trends