What is a living space?

What has this got to do with geography?

Topic 3

Attachments to places• People naturally have different attachments

to places• We put these attachments into two overall

categories:• Functional attachments: are

attachments to things that give you what you need: food, water shelter etc.

• Emotional attachments: are attachments to places that are emotional; feelings, moods and emotions people have about the place

Why learn about living spaces?• This is a fairly new geographical topic

to be taught on its own, so it is important to think about how learning about living spaces fit into geography

• Can you think of other geographical topics that contain the idea of living spaces?

What factors affect how we view different places?

The 7th Best Place to Live in the UK!

• Why is this?• What has South

Cambs got that makes it such a good living space?

• Imagine you are trying to ‘sell’ South Cambs to a specific group of people.. Come up with a sales pitch

South Cambs: the place to live• Young couple:• Retired couple:• Young family:• Others….

So what is a living space?