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Component 2: Human Interactions - Changing Spaces; Making Places
Quick questions on Changing places and rebranding: processes of change, regeneration and re-imaging - OCR A-Level Geography
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What are the processes that change places?Show answer
Economic change is often the driver: deindustrialisation strips manufacturing jobs from former industrial places, while globalisation redistributes investment and production, leaving some places de-industrialised and others booming. Social processes follow and feed back: gentrification transforms the demography and economy of inner-city areas, counter-urbanisation and suburbanisation reshape rural and edge-of-city places, and studentification changes university districts. Political decisions, planning, investment, deregulation, steer where change happens, and technological change (the internet, remote working, new transport) reshapes how places function. These processes interact, so a single place may be remade by several at once.
What are the role of players?Show answer
Change is not impersonal; it is driven by players with different power, resources and aims. National and local governments set policy, planning and funding and often initiate regeneration. Transnational corporations and developers decide where to invest and build, with great influence over a place's economic fate. Local communities and residents experience and respond to change, sometimes welcoming it, sometimes resisting it.
What is q1?Show answer
Define regeneration and re-imaging. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain one social cost of gentrification. [3 marks]
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