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A-Level Geography Changing places
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A-Level Geography AQA Changing places essay based off of practice questions from paper 2. A-grade student answer.
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VEB - 2/3/21 – Dynamics of Change:Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716 – 83) described himself as a place-maker. He was an
influential landscape architect with a naturalist style. His use of open grassland was a break
with traditional formal garden design, such as that seen at Versailles.
Shanghai:
Pudong district:
More infrastructure, high status buildings, more greenery, skyline, 26 years of change.
All places are changing and are socially constructed.
Different forces of change have both current and historic impacts.
Shanghai is a famous place of change. This change is associated with China’s rapid economic
growth and urbanisation.
Know your place
They looked out of place
A special place in my heart
Place: historically implied stability, lack of change, inertia (unmoving)
For all of them we can conclude that the social position of the person or people referred to
is permanent or unchanging. Language is influential.
A group of geographers dubbed the social constructionists which includes David Harvey and
Doreen Massey, has suggested that all places must be understood as: dynamic not static,
socially constructed.
Socially constructed means something such as an ideal or expectation that has been created
by society. This ideal or expectation influences people’s lives such as the socially constructed
ideal that ‘money’ has value and that we value it for more than what it is actually worth
since in reality a £50 note is just a piece of paper.
Socially constructed:
Social processes produce and reproduce the social and economic relations between
different groups of people In society, in different locations. One aspect of this is place
meaning. The dominant place meaning of a location may benefit dominant classes and the
status.
In Korea Christianity has become the dominant religion and Christian have become the
dominant worshippers due to the influence of the US whereas before it was Buddhism, now
only the elderly generation are carrying out this religion and it has created a generational
divide within many cities especially Seoul. s quo. A place is given meaning.
The social processes that affect the creation of a place can vary however in the case of
Milton Abbey the social process that affected its creation the most is the needs, wants and
power of the upper-class aristocracy. Due to the power the aristocracy have they had the
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