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Component 1: Changing Landscapes and Changing Places

4 dot points across 4 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

What is a place, and how do people come to attach meaning and a sense of place to it?

The concept of place; space versus place; the dynamic nature of place; sense of place; and the endogenous and exogenous factors that shape a place's character.
An Eduqas A-Level Geography answer to place concepts in Changing Places (Component 1), covering the distinction between space and place, the dynamic nature of place, sense of place and place attachment, and the endogenous and exogenous factors that shape a place's character, with UK examples.
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How and why do the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of places change over time?

The demographic and socio-economic characteristics of places and how they change; the processes driving change including migration, deindustrialisation and urban processes; and the study of two contrasting places.
An Eduqas A-Level Geography answer to demographic and socio-economic change in Changing Places (Component 1), covering how the population, employment, housing and inequality of places change, the processes driving change (migration, deindustrialisation, suburbanisation, counter-urbanisation, gentrification), and the required study of two contrasting places, with UK examples.
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How and why are places rebranded and regenerated, and who benefits?

Place-making, rebranding, regeneration and re-imaging; the players involved; and the conflicts and contested outcomes of changing a place's identity.
An Eduqas A-Level Geography answer to rebranding and regeneration in Changing Places (Component 1), covering place-making, rebranding, regeneration and re-imaging, the players involved (government, TNCs, communities), and the conflicts and contested outcomes of changing a place's identity, with UK examples.
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How do connections and representations shape how places are understood and experienced?

Relationships and connections between places; insideness and outsideness; near and far places; experienced versus media places; and how places are represented through formal and informal sources.
An Eduqas A-Level Geography answer to relationships, connections and representation in Changing Places (Component 1), covering insideness and outsideness, near and far places, experienced versus media places, globalisation and place homogenisation, and how places are represented through formal quantitative and informal qualitative sources, with examples.
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