changing places

• What is space


  Somewhere without meaning
• What's place


  Somewhere with meaning, that can be mapped, that has elements that make it identifiable and that is associated with human behaviour
• What's a locale


  A place where something happens or events set with it
• What's a sense of pkace

  Historic value, significance or importance
• Define insider


  Someone who knows the place or has an emotional attachments and strong sense of place
• Define outsider


  someone who doesn't know the places or is marginalised in a community
• What is the location locale and sense of place in Glastonbury

  It's in the county Somerset, its locale is its own unique character, "alive with history" and "spiritual sites" and its sense of place is the importance it holds for people with religious connections to kind Arthur
• How can you identify with a place

  If our sense of place , the meaning we give to a location can be so strong that it features as a central part of our identity
• What is localism


  An affection for or emotional ownership of a particular place
• What is regionalism


  Consciousness of, and loyalty to, a distinct region with a population that shares similarities
• What is nationalism


  loyalty and devotion to a nation for example Cornwall wanting to be separate
• How can globalisation effect a town

  It can erode local cultures and produces identical or homogenised places this can sometime be called placelessness and is referred to as a cloned town
• What is localisation used to describe

  A greater focus on the 'local' and where people become increasingly passionate about their local area and is often seen as resisting the forces of globalisation
• What's the case study on clone stopping

  Totness, in 2012 Costa tried to open an outlet in south Devon town of fitness and 3/4 of the town petitioned to keep it local and eventually cost an recognised how strongly they felt and dropped their plans
• What is the transition town movement

  community projects that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential impacts of chain stores, founded in 2007 as a response to the twin threats of climate change
• What's some examples of ways to be involved in the transition town movement

  Food growing groups, community owned brewers and community owned energy
• What's a small scale case study example of a transition town

  Todmorden which planted vegetables all over town for anyone to help themselves to as lots of derelict was unclaimed
• How is a sense of place and perception of place created

  By experience and meaning and perception of place is created from what we have seen heard or read about a place
• What is a media place

  Places that we've only experienced through diverse media as it only exist as an idea in our minds which are highly influenced by media
• What's a far place


  Someone physically far away or simply feel far away because it's difficult to get to or unrealistic to get there
• What's a near place


  A place close to you or feels close because you've visited it many times
• What's a rural idyll

  The idea or myth that rural areas are ideal such as the romantic view of the countryside being problem free and peaceful when in reality you're cut off from other communications
• What does the character of a place refer to

  The physical and human features that help to distinguish it from another place
• What's an endogenous factor

  Those that originate internally and may include aspects of the site or land in which the place is built
• What's some examples of endogenous factors

  Physical geography (relief geology altitude), built environment (building materials) or location (urban or rural)
• What are exogenous factors?

  Factors that have an external cause or origin
• What's some examples of exogenous factors

  Migration, flow of resources, money and investment and globalisation
• What is agents of change

  People who impact upon a place, could be individuals or organisations
• What's continuity


  The lack of change over time
• What are top three changes in Wallingford

  Bypass which was built to reduce traffic, supermarkets such as Waitrose allowing for more wider access and housing for new families
• What's an example of continuity

  Bournville
• Why is bournville an example of continuity

  It was built as a garden village for the employees of cadburys factory, schools and hospitals were set up for them but when cadburys went global it left bournville but little change occurred snd in 2003 names nicest place in Britain
• What are some examples of places that have changed

  Devonport, Detroit and port talbot
• What was devonport originalky

  A naval dockyard and in the 18th century was one of the fastest growing towns in the
• What happened to devonport after WW2

  The navy requisitioned it as a storage enclave and enclosed it with three meter high wall which split the town and naval jobs continued to decline and led to significant social and economic problems
• What is happening in devonport now

  Community groups heavily involved and inter war housing was removed and historical landmark incorporated into new development to attract wealthy grouos
• What was Detroit like

  In the 1920s it was the fourth largest city in USA with a thriving car industry
• Why did Detroit change

  Car manufacturing moved to Japan resulting in dereliction, depopulation (city lost 1/4 of its population), crime and high unemployment
• What did the change in Detroit lead to

  Reduction in tax revenue led to the city being declared bankrupt in 2013 with debts of £18.5 million and 39.8% of Detroit is in poverty
• What was port talbot

  Largest UK steel works, was owned by government then taken over by Indian TNC tata and in south wales steel making is part of their economy and pride