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What are psycho geographies? |
Personal feelings that people have about a place, whether they like or dislike it |
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How can people's sense of place link to physics geography? |
People could have preferred landscape, eg. Rural or urban, coastal, upland. |
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How can physical factors impact on the landscape of a place? |
Materials eg stone buildings and walls |
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How has there been a changing sense of community over time due to lifestyle changes? |
People now go out to eat so don't shop every day, loss of community |
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What is the term to describe factors that pull people away? |
Centrifugal forces eg. Moving to find work |
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What is rebranding? |
Deliberate attempts to market a place as desirable for investment and wealth creation and social status |
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What lead to closure of traditional shipping docks? |
Container revolution |
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What have been the recent changes affecting places? |
Ageing population has led to a need for overseas migrants |
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What and when was the first wave of innovation? What followed this? |
1780s - water power, iron and steel. 1850s, steam engines and railway |
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What breakthrough wave of innovation came in the 1950s? |
Space aviation and exploration |
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What is a positive effect of globalisation on finance? |
Worldwide reduction in consumer prices |
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Describe be the development of air travel |
1780s experiments with hot air balloons, 1903 Wright brothers first flight, 1970s concord and 737, use of new materials aluminium titanium |
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When was the first transatlantic container ship? How much did it cut transport costs? |
1966, 25% |
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Up to when was homosexuality illegal? |
1967 |
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What has been a gender barrier? |
Equal pay act not till '63 |
