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...geography commonly considered landscape to be a description of physical, topographical landform. From the late 1980s and into the 1990s a greater focus became placed on the representational qualities of landscapes. In other words, a landscape (and in particular, the landscapes of fine art and photography) could represent a wider story of meanings such as national identity...

...Geographies of deindustrialization and the working‐class: Industrial ruination, legacies, and affect’. Geography Compass (12:2): 1-14, 2019. Gibbs, E. Coal Country. The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. London: University of London Press, 2021. High, S. MacKinnon, L. and Perchard, A. ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-14 in High, S. MacKinnon, L....

...geography and anthropology, development studies, planning, political science and sociology. The framework developed in this course is meant to serve as an analytical heuristic, a device for framing the questions that should be asked when seeking to understand any particular urban issue or a place-based problem. Find out more about studying with The Open University by...

...geography of the referendum vote tell us about the (increasingly dis-) United Kingdom? ...[Union flag illustration ] A referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union was held on 23rd June 2016. That day, 52% of those who voted recorded a vote to leave, with 48% voting for the UK to remain a member. The result came as a shock to governing elites both in the UK...