Booklet 2

• Endogenous Places


  local internal characteristics that create a places identity
• Endogenous factors


  - location

  -topography

  -physical geog (soil type, flood land)

  -land use

  built environment

  -infrastructure

  -demographic (age, ethnicity)

  -economic characteristics (primary, secondary, tertiary sector)
• Exogenous places


  external influences on a places identity. Caused by a places relationship with other places
• Exogenous factors


  -people (migrants, tourists, visitors who come for work)

  -capital (investment from business outside area)

  -Resources ( raw materials, transport infrastructure)

  -Ideas ( urban planners, architects, businesses)
• Placelessness


  the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next- as a result of globalization and time space compression
• Costa coffee in Totnes Devon


  - Totnes small town

  -Costa wanted to open store

  - residents angry as didn't want town to lose individuality

  - wanted independent shops

  -Costa was approved to open but Costa ended up pulling out
• Bristol Pound


  A form of local currency in Bristol. It was created with the intention to encourage people to spend their money with local businesses rather than with their competitors.
• Bristol Pound - Disadvantages

  - Not widely used, some companies won't except it as legal tender

  - Only reliant on Bristol businesses

  - Not fully stable as it is relatively new
• Glocalisation


  global business adapt products to fit local place to be suitable to the area

  Mcdonalds has globalised - eg. Mcaloo tikka in India
• Describe two ways in which local geology can affect the character of a place?

  if local stone is used it can affect what the buildings look like which will be unique to that place

  rock can affect a places topography shape and height of land, drainage, soil fertility and land use