Full set of flashcards for the Changing Places topic of AQA A Level Geography, including case studies. This complements my Revision Docs and can be used alongside them. These contain more pieces of information than the Revision Docs as I have added some facts I have heard from the news etc.
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The Concept of Place
Question Answer
What is a place? A location on a map and the sense of place
What is included in the location of a place on a map? The human and physical characteristics and the flows in and out
Give 3 examples of human characteristics of a place. Infrastructure, culture and language
Give 3 examples of physical characteristics of a place. Landforms, water and ecosystems
What is a social constructionist's view of place? A place is a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time
What did both Doreen Massey and Professor David Harvey believe about place? That globalisation is important to the creation of place and that a place is a product of its relations with elsewhere
What did Professor David Harvey believe about place? Places have always had fixed meaning and boundaries, but homogenisation has led to a loss of identity
What did Professor David Harvey believe that this loss of identity is leading to? Xenophobia and a search for boundaries
What did Doreen Massey believe about place? Place is the unique point of connection in a wider series of flows
Doreen Massey believed that the boundaries of place were ... ... difficult to map and in a constant state of flux
What is Doreen Massey's global sense of place? The unique and new sense of place cities are now developing due to an amalgamation of different cultures from
globalisation
Name 3 things Doreen Massey noted in her description of Kilburn High Road. Postboxes with the initials of the IRA, Saris in shop windows and a Muslim man selling newspapers
What is the phenomenological approach to place? How an individual person experiences place, recognising the highly personal relationship between people and
place
What did Yi-Fu Tuan argue about how we see place? That it is through human perception and experience that we get to know places
Describe James Kunstler's idea of clone towns Cities in the UK and rest of the world all have the same chain shops in their highstreets
James Kunstler argues that every place is like ... ... no place in particular
What do clone towns mean for the local economy? Independent businesses are pushed out, leading to unemployment
Describe James Kunstler's idea of placelessness Clone towns lead to a loss of character and therefore a loss of place because character and place are intrinsically
linked
How is online shopping contributing to placelessness? It decreases our contact with places that could be so unique and widen our sense of place
What is glocalisation? A reaction to globalisation where MNCs are having to adapt to the local market place
Over 100 countries, how many McDonald's restaurants are there? 36,000
Give 2 examples of adapted McDonald's menu for the local market place. In Hindu countries beef has been removed from the menu and in Muslim countries pork has been removed
What is a locale? The setting for activities to take place
Why is a locale important to place? It can effect social interaction and our behaviour within a place
What is the sense of place? The emotional meaning a person has to a place
Places can be meaningful to individuals in ways that are ... ... personal or subjective
Places can be meaningful to groups in ways that are ... ... social or cultural
Give an example of how physical characteristics can change short term. A volcanic eruption
Give an example of how physical characteristics can change long term. River migration
Give an example of how human characteristics can change short term. Migration
Give an example of how human characteristics can change long term. Generations dying
Give an example of how flows can change short term. TNC closing a factory will stop economic flows
Give an example of how flows can change long term. Gradual move towards veganism
Give an example of how sense of place can change short term War
Give an example of how sense of place can change long term Returning to childhood home
Places are important because people feel connected to a place due to ... ... their lived experience
,Give 2 examples of places you may feel connected to due to lived experience. Childhood park and Disneyland
Places are important because it relates to ... ... an aspect of a person's life
Give an example of how a place may relate to an aspect of someone's life. Spending a lot of time in an office will make it important to you
Places are important because the connections made there can ... ... form your identity
Yi-Fu Tuan suggested the quality of experience in a place influences our emotions so strongly it can... ... affect our identity
What did Yi-Fu Tuan say about place identity? The quality of our experience in a place also influences our emotions, sometimes its so strong it affects our identity
A very strong sense of place can materialise itself into ... ... localism, regionalism or nationalism
What is nimbyism? A "not in my back yard" attitude where people are only open to change if it doesn't happen in their local area.
Give an example of nimbyism. There was a lot of protest in 2016 when Third Energy announced they were going to start fracking in Kirby
Misperton
Give an example of regionalism. The Yorkshire Devolution Movement
How many people live in Yorkshire? 5.3 million
How many people live in Scotland? 5.4 million
Give an example of nationalism. Growth of separate political parties such as the SNP
What was the Totnes pound? A new currency which can only be used in local, independent shops in Totnes, Devon
How long did the Totnes pound run for? 12 years
What is the Totnes pound an example of? The use of your identity of "place" to fight against capitalism and globalisation
Types of Place
Question Answer
What is an insider? Someone who feels familiar with the place and shares cultural values
Why may an insider feel this sense of place? Through lived experiences
Give an example of an insider. A resident of Micklgate who participates in street parties
What is an outsider? Someone who doesn't feel a sense of belonging, share cultural values and may feel unwelcome
Why may an outsider feel this sense of place? Few lived experiences or exclusion
Give an example of an outsider with few lived experiences. A tourist to Bishopthorpe road during a street party
Give an example of an outsider who is excluded. A homeless person surrounded by anti-homeless spikes
A National Park survey showed what percentage of visitors were black or minority ethnic? 1%
What percentage of the UK is black or minority ethnic? 10%
What type of person is more likely to support nimbyism? An insider
Through what kind of factors can your feeling of an insider or outsider change? Through personal or external factors
Give three examples of personal factors affecting your feeling as an insider or outsider over time. Growing older, changing religion, changing gender
How many people converted to Islam in 2011? 25,000
Give an example of an external factor affecting your feeling of an insider or outsider. Gentrification
Give an example of a new establishment that is fuelling gentrification in Micklegate ward. The Residence
Why might people in Micklegate ward feel like an outsider due to gentrification? The original, poorer community may not associate with the cultures and struggles of wealthier residents
What is an experienced place? A place you have spent time in and can affect your sense of place through your visit
What will you most likely feel like in an experienced place? An insider
How may you feel about New York as an experienced place? Negative emotional attachment as it is busy and dirty
What is a media place? A place you haven't been to, but created a sense of place through its depiction in media
What will you most likely feel like in an media place? An outsider
, How may you feel about New York as a media place? Positive as Home Alone 2 shows it as a beautiful city with pretty lights and grand skyscrapers
How may you feel about Spitalfields as a media place? The book Brick Lane depicts Spitalfields as deprived and uneducated
Media places can be ... ... fictitious, like Hogwarts
Fictitious media places can never ... ... fall short of our expectations
Media places can become ... ... experienced places, but not vice versa
What percentage of Spitalfields has a level 4 qualification or above? 44.40%
Over what price can some houses in Spitalfields reach? £2 million
How may you feel about Cornwall as a media place? Positive as Doc Martin shows it to be a happy, healthy, close-knit community
What percentage of Cornwall neighbourhoods are deprived of a quality living environment than the rest of 90%
the UK?
How many people die unnecessarily in Cornwall from the cold each year? 210
How many people experience unnecessary bad health in Cornwall due to the cold each year? 74,000
What is the average salary in Cornwall? £14,300
How much more is the average house price compared to the average salary in Cornwall? 12 times
How is Birmingham depicted in Peaky Blinders? Ridden with crime and dangerous
Why may people view Birmingham as unsafe and dull? Deindustrialisation and the spaghetti junction
What is Birmingham often called in terms of its status in the UK? The UK's second capital
How is Birmingham depicted in Ready Player One? The boring, brutal, real world
What are near places? Places geographically close, where everyday activities take place
What may a person feel like about a near place? An insider
Normally, a near place is also ... ... an experienced place
What are far places? Places distant from a person's home
What may a person feel like about a far place? An outsider
Often, a far place can be a ... ... media place
Give an example of a near place. School
Give an example of a far place Hawaii
Why are the lines between near and far places blurring? We can get to far places quickly now due to transport innovations, so they may seem near
Because more people are experiencing media places, people can develop ... ... a deep sense of place without visiting
Due to the increased connectivity between places, some may feel like an ... ... insider in places they haven't visited
People can remain closely connected to far places to them, making them seem ... ... near
How has the pandemic changed how people experience near and far places? Working online may make a place seem near, when geographically it is far
Faster transport can make far places ... ... seem near
Far places seeming near is called the ... ... shrinking world effect
Give an example of the shrinking world effect. A woman in the Australian Outback may view a city 100km away as near as she can get there quickly
The Character of Places
Question Answer
What is an endogenous factor? Internal factors that shape a place's character
What is an exogenous factor? Factors with an external cause or origin including relationships with other places and the external factors that
affect this
Give 3 examples of exogenous factors. Influences from other places, distances from routeways to other places and accessibility
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