A global sense of place

• Global sense of place:

  • Massey ~ 'we need a global sense of local, global sense of place'
  • local areas influenced by ever-changing wider world
  • e.g. variety of ethnic groups in one area who moved at different times and bring diff cultures
  • influences from diff parts of world e.g. indian restaurant
• Exempifiy the global sense of place:

  Kendal:

  • narrative of local high street > McDonalds, Tkmaxx, chain shops > global enterprises > homoginised

  Liverpool:

  • immigration e.g. Irish pubs, china towns
  • global brands
• David Harvey - space-time compression:

  How we travelled:

  1. 1500s-1840s > sailing ships > time consuming, more limitations, longer travel
  2. 1840s-1920s > trains and steam ships > faster, more efficient e.g. Lpool docks expand to fit steam ships but eventually closed as too small
  3. 1920s-1940s > propeller airplanes > faster, adapt
  4. 1940s-present > jet airplanes > world became smaller as we could travel faster and further > increase globalisation e.g. next day delivery

  
• James Kunstler:

  • american novelist who coined the phrase 'geography of nowhere'
  • process such as urban sprawl have led to community-less cities covering huge areas of countryside with identical shopping malls, car parks and roads
  • in UK clone towns used to describe settlements where high street dominated by chain stores > placelessness
• EXAMPLE: Kendal > is it a clone town? Consider Windermere as well

  Kendal:

  • chain stores in kendal, national and international stores e.g. McDonalds, Greggs etc > lots of charity ships and supermarketsfew independent small and local business but more chains
  • local farmers market, cafes, shops
  • 60% chain, 40% independent e.g. Elephant Yard

  Windermere:

  • more independent but still chains in honeypot locations but they relate to locations
• Glocalisation:

  • where multinational companies tried to adapt to local markets
  • E.g. McDonalds > adapt their menus to local markets e.g. in India no beef and more white meat to fit religion and cultural aspects to align with place character
• Localisation and sense of belonging:

  • place has become political symbol for fighting against capitalism with some locations introducing local currencies e.g. Lake District pound to try and promote local goods and services
• EXAMPLE: Totnes, Devon > Localisation and sense of belonging > Costa Coffee:

  • 5,700 ppl signed petition and 100 ppl marched against opening but it opened anyway