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Clone towns
Online Lesson | 18 Nov 2026 | Start: 18:00 | DURATION: 1 HOUR Specification content
3.2.2.1 The nature and importance of places
Factors contributing to the character of places
3.2.2.2.1 Relationships and connections
- How the demographic, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of places are shaped by shifting flows of people, resources, money and investment, and ideas at all scales, from local to global.
- The characteristics and impacts of external forces operating at different scales from local to global, including either government policies or the decisions of transnational corporations or the impacts of international or global institutions.
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:
- What is meant by a ‘clone town and a ‘home town.
- How globalization and a ‘global culture might be responsible for the loss of high street identity.
- What the factors are that can be used to determine if a place has become a ‘clone town.
- How some communities have started to resist homogenisation of the high street.
Suggested timing
1 hour
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Course Module: Changing places (Autumn 2) | Lesson Clone towns:
Online Lesson | 18 Nov 2026 | Start: 18:00 | DURATION: 1 HOUR
Specification content
3.2.2.1 The nature and importance of places
Factors contributing to the character of places
3.2.2.2.1 Relationships and connections
- How the demographic, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of places are shaped by shifting flows of people, resources, money and investment, and ideas at all scales, from local to global.
- The characteristics and impacts of external forces operating at different scales from local to global, including either government policies or the decisions of transnational corporations or the impacts of international or global institutions.
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:
- What is meant by a ‘clone town and a ‘home town.
- How globalization and a ‘global culture might be responsible for the loss of high street identity.
- What the factors are that can be used to determine if a place has become a ‘clone town.
- How some communities have started to resist homogenisation of the high street.
Suggested timing
1 hour
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