Relationships and connections

• Relationships and Connections: Examples

  • Places are forced to change over time due to their relationships and connections with people and other places 
  • Consider the economic rise and fall of British industrial cities and the impact this has on population and the environment 
  • British seaside resorts have also undergone change over the last 50 years due to the increasingly popularity of holidaying abroad
  • Conflict can also change such as terrorism (9/11), industrial accidents (Chernobyl) and natural disasters 
  • Conflict may arise when people resist change - E.g. Notting Hill - when Notting Hill was gentrified in 2012 it is now home to London’s wealthiest residents whereas in 1899 it was one of the biggest slums in London. 
• Regeneration:

  Improving and investing in an area. This may include demolishing places and building new places. The use of a place may change.
• Rebranding

  Giving a new image to part of the city to attract people back to the area. E.g. Leeds Dock - South Bank, Leeds
• Art - E.g. Spring Morning by Geoffrey Smith (Tadcaster Bridge)

  • Things can be over exaggerated to make a place look better or worse
  • Can only show one point in time. E.g. weather changes area has changed over time 
  • Only shows one specific area of a place