What is the administrative function of a place?
How a place organises infrastructure and economic activity for the surrounding areas.
What is the commercial function of a place?
A location with strong business influence with small and large scale businesses e.g. TNC bases.
What is the retail function of a place?
An urban area with attractive retail facilities e.g. shopping centres, markets
The retail industry is the main scourge of income and employment for locals.
What is the industrial function of a place?
A location whose economy and reputation is predominantly based on industrial capacity.
How does a places demographic change?
economic growth will attracts young people and become more economically diverse with more migrants.
What is gentrification?
Is a change in the social structure of a place when affluent people move into a location. Leads to an increase in property values resulting in the displacement of the original, poorer residents.
What are the four main factors causing a places change?
-physical factors
-accessibility and connectedness
-historical development
-role of local/national planning
What do physical factors include
Location-closeness to large cities and economic areas
Enviroment-attractiveness of a place organises infrastructure
What are some accessibility and connectedness factors?
-improved transport infrastructures
-connections help competition for investment and visitors
-global connectivity = broadband & mobile phones
What are some historical development factors?
-decline in primary and secondary sectors
-consumer trends changes e.g. online retail
What does the role of local/national planning include?
-planning regulations e.g. green belt
-promoting tertiary & quaternary sectors
How can changes in a place be measured?
-land use changes
-levels of deprivations
-employment changes
-demographic changes
How is deprivation measured?
-income, employment and health deprivation
-crime
-quality of the loving environment
-abandoned and derelict land
What is the primary sector?
The extracting of raw materials e.g. farming and mining
What is the secondary sector?
The processing of raw materials into products
What is the tertiary sector?
Services and the public sector e.g.health care and teacher
What is the quaternary sector?
It and finance known as the knowledge economy
What are the different scales of a change to a place known under?
Locally e.g. counter-urbanisation
Nationally e.g. gov policies
Globally e.g. climate change, pandemics
What structures of the local economy affect the characteristics of a place?
-the income of the locals
-lifestyle of individuals and communities
-perception of a place
What led to industrialisation?
The decline in primary and secondary sectors with he growth in the tertiary and quaternary sectors known as the knowledge economy
What are the different job classifications?
Full time or part time
Temporary or permanent
Employed or self employed
What factors is economic activity analysed from?
-employment data
-economic output
-gross domestic product (GDP)
-gross value added (GVA)
How do jobs affect health?
-Those with the lowest income have the poorest quality of health
How do jobs affect life expectancy?
It can be 5 years longer for people in management compared to manual workers
