R1 What Is A Living Space
Transcript of R1 What Is A Living Space
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?