L5- Placelessness

• What did Doreen Massey call the global interconnectedness

  Time space compression
• What did Doreen Massey say about the time space compression

  It has complicated our understanding of the unique characteristics of a place and how we relate to them
• High streets and shopping centres are beginning to lose their identity and are becoming

  Clone towns
• Globalisation is

  The increase of trade around the world, especially by large companies in many different countries.

  Or

  The increasing interconnection if the world's economic, cultural and political systems.
• How has Totnes in South Devon encouraged residents to keep money in the local economy?

  By creating their own currency with the aim of people using it to shop locally
• Some argue globalisation has made place less important as the forces of global capitalism have eroded local cultures and produced.....

  Identical or homogenised places
• Resisting the power of globalisation and adapting to the local market is called

  Glocalisation