1. WELCOME TO OCR Geography a-level

2. A-Level course Overview (2 Year Full Course)
Content Overview
Assessment Overview
Landscape Systems – Coasts
Earth’s Life Support Systems
Geographical Skills
Physical Systems
(01)
66 marks
1hr 30mins
22% of A level
Changing Spaces; Making Places
Global Connections – Global Migration and Power and Borders
Human Interactions
(02)
Disease Dilemmas
Hazardous Earth
Geographical Debates
(03)
108 marks
2hrs 30mins
36% of A level
Independent Investigation
Investigative Geography
(04/05)
60 marks
Non Examined Assessment
20% of A level

3. Question style…

4. Changing Spaces; making places module overview
Core Module in the Human Interactions (02) Paper
What’s in a place?
How do we understand place?
How does economic change influence patterns of social inequality in places?
Who are the players that influence economic change in places?
How are places created through placemaking processes?

5. Changing spaceS; MAKING PLACES
KEY QUESTION
What is a place and how do we understand it?

6. PLAce = location meaning + Co-ordinates Grid References Location:
A position in abstract space
Meaning:
At an individual level – personal and subjective
At a social or cultural level – shared/ common meanings
Co-ordinates
Grid References

7. PLAce = location meaning +
‘A place comes into existence when humans give meaning to a part of the larger, undifferentiated space.’ Yi-Fu Tuan, 1977
At the heart of places are people – as they live, work and play, space is changed into a place that conveys meaning and identity.
All of us are involved in changing spaces and making places.

8. Do these spaces have any meaning to you? Are they places?
I spent many times here with my friends when I was young. It is a place to me because it immediately has meaning.
Location:
51.47° N, -3.32° E
National Grid Ref: SP083,759

9. This is part of the grounds of Cardiff University.
It has the personal meaning of being in my hometown.
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10. What is the place called?
Where is the place located?
What individual memories do you have of this place?
(Either through media/ first hand experience)
How does society view this place? What does society see this place’s function as?

11. place
Creswell (2008) explains place as ‘a meaningful segment of geographical space.’ Place is understood as a geographical nexus of connections and linkages including flows of people, ideas, information and wealth that define a geographical location. Places are dynamic, changing both in terms of their material human and physical geographies but also the meanings associated with them. Therefore, all places are changing places.
If this is, ‘place,’ what is, ‘space?'

12. Is there a difference between a parking space and a parking place?
A parking space is a defined area where you can park your car.
A parking place is an area where the act of parking takes place.

13. I’m caught between a rock and a hard place!!!
Shall we meet at my place or yours?
I feel so out of place at this party

14. What is the difference between place and space?
Places can have an objective meaning e.g. an address or grid reference.
But they can also have a subjective meaning where emotion or meaning has been attached. E.g. My place (my home) has a post code and an address … but it also has meaning and emotion attached.
Space exists between places.
Spaces don’t have the meaning that places do.
They tend to be objective and lack meaning/emotion.

15. Look at the photos below of 2 very different places.
Why can both of these be defined as a ‘place’?
The North Atlantic Ocean separates these 2 places – is this ocean a place or a space?

16. Here it is an enormous space separating New York and Heathfield.
Here it a place of work for the North Atlantic Ocean fishermen

17. Here it is also a place for the crew of the cargo ships travelling across the Atlantic. They have emotion attached to it – they have an understanding of the ocean currents, wind and wave patterns.

18. SPace
Tuan (1977) – explains, ‘space is given by the ability to move, space implies freedom.’ Space exists between places and does not have the meanings that places do. Tuan stated that, ‘spaces are more abstract than places.’
Tuan (1977) – ‘When space feels thoroughly familiar to us, it has become place. Place is a type of object. Places and objects define space.’

19. Read through p147 of the textbook ‘Defining what is meant by place.’
Review
Read through p147 of the textbook ‘Defining what is meant by place.’
Make notes on the key points consolidating what you understand by the terms place and space.
Can you answer the following question?
Can one person’s ‘place,’ be another person’s ‘space?'
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20. Places hold a variety of different meanings for us all.
Geography is the study of people and place, and as geographers we are interested in the similarities, differences and interconnections between places.
At the heart of places are people. We play a key role in “making a place”. The differences or similarities between places is largely due to people and how they live, work and play.
We are all involved in “changing spaces and making places”.