WJEC Geography Changing
Places, WJEC A Level
Geography - UNIT
3.(GeoMaster revision with
answers).
What is a place? - ANSWER "Places are best capitualised by the idea of locale
which refers to the physical settings or social activity as situated geographically"
Places vs landscape - ANSWER Landscape refers to the portion of the earth's
surface that can be viewed from one spot. The viewer is outside of it and the primary
way it's different from places is that places are very much things to be inside of.
What can influence how a place changes: - ANSWER Globalisation
Gentrification
Building use
New buildings
Economic growth
Migration
CS - Studentification in Swansea - ANSWER Campus was intended to hold 3000,
now holds 25,000 - many unkempt gardens - partying during the night which keeps
locals awake
Brynmill suburb close to Uni, students overload places - loss of community for
periods of time - Christmas and Summer due to holidays for students, many to
lethousing. Poor community - lower standard of living for locals
CS - Peterborough - Migration - ANSWER Councillor who let in 50 Asian families
now receiving death threats
Immigrants are infamous for fly tipping
Local primary school now has 29 languages spoken there
Local GP received over 1000 new patients in 6 months from Eastern Europe and as
a result facilities are struggling to stay open with this new demand e.g doctors and
hospitals
160,000 however rumoured to be closer to 230,000
Immigrants don't really understand how local things like rubbish collection work
impacts of immigration on destination country - ANSWER +ves
Cheap Labour
Skilled labour
Cultural diversity
-ves
Job loss
social /civil pressure
Breakdown
,WJEC Geography Changing
Places, WJEC A Level
Geography - UNIT
3.(GeoMaster revision with
answers).
CS - Migration effect on Poland - ANSWER Brain Drain - expense to get people
trained e.g. doctors who then go abroad in seek of better paid work - country who
paid to train them doesn't benefit from their labour
Remittances - people move away to work and send money home to their families
CS - Brain Drain - Greece - ANSWER 300,000 left during the 2008 financial crisis
Over 5000 doctors went to Germany
30% don't have insurance
CS - Romania - ANSWER 80% plus medical students said they plan to emigrate
after Uni
Impact of migration on a scarce country - ANSWER +ves
Money sent home, remittances
Pressure off resources
Population density
-ves
Loss of young workforce
Loss of labour
Lower marital rates
Dependency
Gender imbalance
Places given meaning as a result of... - ANSWER ...people's perceptions,
engagement with, and attachments to the place in question
Can evoke different feelings
Change - evoke and differ as time passes
Continuity - things that stay the same
Gentrification - ANSWER Process of an area being improved by the people that live
there
Young professionals move to a deprived area - as their incomes increase they start
making improvements to their house - income of these professionals also attracts
new businesses and restaurants
CS - gentrification in Shoreditch - ANSWER London's shoreditch area has seen
rapid gentrification as small independent shops and businesses move into the area -
Same with Bricklane and Notting Hill
, WJEC Geography Changing
Places, WJEC A Level
Geography - UNIT
3.(GeoMaster revision with
answers).
→ displacement of low income residents who can't afford to live there. Between 2002
and 2015 low income households declined by 20% + house prices increased by
420%
CS - Gentrification - Brixton Arches - ANSWER Brixton Arches gentrification -
attracts new businesses - London council removed schools for gated community,
renovated housing at 400k average
Old stalls, shops have been forced out and loss of black culture
Pros - affordable, ethnic diversity, bragging rights,'cool' zipcode
Cons - sense of invasion, rising costs/rent, changing neighbourhood identity
Formal vs informal representations of places - ANSWER Formal = census data,
statistics, maps
Informal = popular culture, Imagery, Music/Cinema, literature
Different industries... - ANSWER Primary - involved in extraction of raw materials
Secondary - manufacturing raw materials into goods and products
Tertiary - service sector = provision of different services to people in other industries
Quaternary - those involved in advances technologies - research based
How does employment differ between countries? - ANSWER Depends on the level
of economic development
LICS - mainly primary, HICs tertiary - quaternary
Rostow model - ANSWER Traditional society → commercial exploration of
agricultural extraction → development of manufacturing sector → development of
wider industrial and commercial base → high mass consumption (by exploitation in
international trade)
Urban decline - ANSWER is the deterioration of the inner city often caused by lack
of investment and maintenance →often but not exclusively accompanied by a
decline in population numbers, decreasing economic performance and
unemployment
Urban deprivation - ANSWER is a standard of living below that of the majority in a
particular society, that involves hardships and lack of access to resources. Places
suffering from urban deprivation have visible differences in housing and economic
opportunities, the rich living alongside poor people.
Places, WJEC A Level
Geography - UNIT
3.(GeoMaster revision with
answers).
What is a place? - ANSWER "Places are best capitualised by the idea of locale
which refers to the physical settings or social activity as situated geographically"
Places vs landscape - ANSWER Landscape refers to the portion of the earth's
surface that can be viewed from one spot. The viewer is outside of it and the primary
way it's different from places is that places are very much things to be inside of.
What can influence how a place changes: - ANSWER Globalisation
Gentrification
Building use
New buildings
Economic growth
Migration
CS - Studentification in Swansea - ANSWER Campus was intended to hold 3000,
now holds 25,000 - many unkempt gardens - partying during the night which keeps
locals awake
Brynmill suburb close to Uni, students overload places - loss of community for
periods of time - Christmas and Summer due to holidays for students, many to
lethousing. Poor community - lower standard of living for locals
CS - Peterborough - Migration - ANSWER Councillor who let in 50 Asian families
now receiving death threats
Immigrants are infamous for fly tipping
Local primary school now has 29 languages spoken there
Local GP received over 1000 new patients in 6 months from Eastern Europe and as
a result facilities are struggling to stay open with this new demand e.g doctors and
hospitals
160,000 however rumoured to be closer to 230,000
Immigrants don't really understand how local things like rubbish collection work
impacts of immigration on destination country - ANSWER +ves
Cheap Labour
Skilled labour
Cultural diversity
-ves
Job loss
social /civil pressure
Breakdown
,WJEC Geography Changing
Places, WJEC A Level
Geography - UNIT
3.(GeoMaster revision with
answers).
CS - Migration effect on Poland - ANSWER Brain Drain - expense to get people
trained e.g. doctors who then go abroad in seek of better paid work - country who
paid to train them doesn't benefit from their labour
Remittances - people move away to work and send money home to their families
CS - Brain Drain - Greece - ANSWER 300,000 left during the 2008 financial crisis
Over 5000 doctors went to Germany
30% don't have insurance
CS - Romania - ANSWER 80% plus medical students said they plan to emigrate
after Uni
Impact of migration on a scarce country - ANSWER +ves
Money sent home, remittances
Pressure off resources
Population density
-ves
Loss of young workforce
Loss of labour
Lower marital rates
Dependency
Gender imbalance
Places given meaning as a result of... - ANSWER ...people's perceptions,
engagement with, and attachments to the place in question
Can evoke different feelings
Change - evoke and differ as time passes
Continuity - things that stay the same
Gentrification - ANSWER Process of an area being improved by the people that live
there
Young professionals move to a deprived area - as their incomes increase they start
making improvements to their house - income of these professionals also attracts
new businesses and restaurants
CS - gentrification in Shoreditch - ANSWER London's shoreditch area has seen
rapid gentrification as small independent shops and businesses move into the area -
Same with Bricklane and Notting Hill
, WJEC Geography Changing
Places, WJEC A Level
Geography - UNIT
3.(GeoMaster revision with
answers).
→ displacement of low income residents who can't afford to live there. Between 2002
and 2015 low income households declined by 20% + house prices increased by
420%
CS - Gentrification - Brixton Arches - ANSWER Brixton Arches gentrification -
attracts new businesses - London council removed schools for gated community,
renovated housing at 400k average
Old stalls, shops have been forced out and loss of black culture
Pros - affordable, ethnic diversity, bragging rights,'cool' zipcode
Cons - sense of invasion, rising costs/rent, changing neighbourhood identity
Formal vs informal representations of places - ANSWER Formal = census data,
statistics, maps
Informal = popular culture, Imagery, Music/Cinema, literature
Different industries... - ANSWER Primary - involved in extraction of raw materials
Secondary - manufacturing raw materials into goods and products
Tertiary - service sector = provision of different services to people in other industries
Quaternary - those involved in advances technologies - research based
How does employment differ between countries? - ANSWER Depends on the level
of economic development
LICS - mainly primary, HICs tertiary - quaternary
Rostow model - ANSWER Traditional society → commercial exploration of
agricultural extraction → development of manufacturing sector → development of
wider industrial and commercial base → high mass consumption (by exploitation in
international trade)
Urban decline - ANSWER is the deterioration of the inner city often caused by lack
of investment and maintenance →often but not exclusively accompanied by a
decline in population numbers, decreasing economic performance and
unemployment
Urban deprivation - ANSWER is a standard of living below that of the majority in a
particular society, that involves hardships and lack of access to resources. Places
suffering from urban deprivation have visible differences in housing and economic
opportunities, the rich living alongside poor people.
