A LevelGeographyAQATopic Questions8. Changing Places8.3 Meaning & Representation

Meaning & Representation (AQA A Level Geography)

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Figure 5a was painted in 1935. It shows the High Level Bridge across the River Tyne, and some housing and industry in Gateshead.

Figure 5b is a photograph of the same place taken in April 2015.

Figure 5a

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Evaluate the usefulness of Figure 5a and Figure 5b in showing the nature and extent of either economic change or demographical and cultural change in this area.

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Figure 4 shows information published online by the London National Park City movement, a charitable trust that launched London as the first National Park City in July 2019.

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Using Figure 4 and your own knowledge, evaluate attempts to influence specific place meanings.

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Figure 4 shows lyrics from ‘Wickerman’, a song about Sheffield performed by the band Pulp.

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Wickerman lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group

Using Figure 4 and your own knowledge, assess the usefulness of sources such as this in representing a place.

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Evaluate the role of one or more external forces in changing lived experience in the local or distant place you have studied.



External forces might include:

  • government policies
  • multinational corporations
  • international or global institutions.

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‘The changing character of a place over time is more effectively represented by box statistical and cartographical sources than artistic sources such as painting, poetry and photography.’

With reference to either your local or distant place, critically assess the extent to which you agree with this statement.
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