Time-space compression

• Globalisation

  Increasing inter connectedness of world
• Globalisation

  • Changing ways people experience and understand places, both unfamiliar and different places in people affected in different ways
  • The 'global village' world become smaller due greater interconnectedness
• Knowledge economy

  Wealth creating activities that gather, store and analyse knowledge, including high tech manufacturing, finance, communications and global goods that move faster and more reliably
• Capital moves around the globe

  Faster at the press of a key
• Space is no longer a barrier

  More travel further and more frequently
• Advantages of globalisation

  • Fresh produce available all year round e.g. strawberries
  • Some goods now widely available e.g. bananas transported from overseas, blueberries
• Those who can manipulate globalisation to their own advantage gain the most
• Those not able to gain on or controlled by globalisation have a sense of 'global village' that they cannot access
• Advantages of globalisation

  • Quicker, cheaper travel options for teenagers
• Ex-steel worker has lost job as business transferred to GDC, now lacks skills and knowledge