A-Level Geography - Human - The Concept of Place
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- Created on: 28-02-22 16:19
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- The Concept of Place
- Ideas about Place
- Characteristics
- Location - Where it is on a map or defined by a grind reference
- Physical Characteristic - The topography or physical features
- Human Characteristic - Who lives there, what they're like, land use and the built environment
- Flows - People, money, ideas, resources
- Sense of Place - Emotional meaning the place has (to individuals / groups)
- Changes
- Physical Characteristic - Over long time scales (rivers migrate) & short time scales (volcanic eruptions)
- Human Characteristic - Over lifetimes (people born / dying) & short term (people migrating)
- Flows - Can change due to social (young people moving into cities), economical (TNC's investing) and political (Closing borders to immigrates)
- Sense of Place - May change to individuals / groups (e.g. the places played in as a child compared to them as an adult)
- Characteristics
- Insiders and Outsiders
- Scales
- Local - Individuals from a village sharing a positive sense of the village
- Regional - Individuals sharing an accent
- National - Individuals of a nation sharing a language or religion
- Definitions
- Insider
- Someone who is familiar with a place and feels welcome in that place
- Residents of a country, show share same cultural values, feel like insiders in the country
- Outsider
- Someone who feels unwelcome or excluded from a place
- International immigrants, who don't share the same cultural values, feel like outsiders of a country
- Insider
- Factors
- Many different factors like age, nationality, gender and more can make a person feel like an insider or outsider
- A young person might feel like an outsider in a retirement home, or an elderly person in a nightclub
- Scales
- Categories
- Experienced Or Media Places
- Experienced places are places where people spent time in, shaping their sense of that place
- Media places are places that people not been to, but have created a sense of place because of media
- New Zealand became recognised for Lord of the Rings, and the country uses film and imagery to advertise the country (LOTR used in air safety for New Zealand airlines)
- Near Or Far
- People geographically closer will feel more like insiders, as they are more likely to experience them and feel comfortable
- Not true for all people, as people may feel excluded from near places due to many reasons
- People are morel likely to feel outsiders in far places, as they are less likely to have experience in them
- Globalisation has affected people's experience of geographical distance
- Improvements in travel mean far places are quickly to get to, therefore be more experienced easily
- ICT mean people can be familiar with media places
- Global companies and products mean that far places can feel very similar to near places
- Places might become 'placelessness', due to TNCs making distant places look the same
- People geographically closer will feel more like insiders, as they are more likely to experience them and feel comfortable
- Experienced Or Media Places
- Ideas about Place
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