Glossary -> Changing Places

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Big data

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Describes extremely large datasets from which we can learn a lot if only we can analyse then effectively

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Declines

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One of ten equal subsections that a population may be divided up into, according to the distribution of the ranked values of a particular content

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Demographic characteristics

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The characteristics of a population such as whether it is ageing or youthful and ethnic make-up

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Distant place

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Somewhere an individual or society perceives as being physically distant, generally inaccessible.

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Endogenous factor

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Characteristics of the place, internal factors (location, physical geography, land use)

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English Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

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measure of deprivation which ranks neighbourhoods across the country according to a combination of seven domains of deprivation. It is used to inform national and international and local government decision-making and associated patterns of investment

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Exogenous factors

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Factors that have an external cuase or origin

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Fairtrade

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A value-based organisation and trademark that aims to tackle injustices of the globalised economy

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Genius loci

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Describes key characteristics of a place, with which any new developments must concur

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Locale

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A setting where everyday life activities take place (office, park, cruise ship). People behave in a certain way in a locale, according to social norms or rules

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Location

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A physical position that can be plotted on a map

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Metropolitan

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Spatial area that is greater than the limits of the city it relates to; includes both the densely-populated urban core and its surrounding suburbs that are bound to the city by employment, commerce and/or infrastructure

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Other / outsider

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Someone or something that is different, alien or toxic. A person living in a distant place may be defined as ‘other’ by individuals or a society, as a result of the perceived contrast between ‘them’ and ‘us’

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Out of place

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A feeling of not being normal, not fitting in, in the context of a particular society or locale

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Place

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More than its physical location, a place is a space given meaning(s) by people

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Placelessness

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The idea that a particular landscape ‘could be anywhere’ because it lacks unique features

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Planning blight

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The reduction of economic activity and/or property values in a particular place resulting from expected or potential future development or restrictions on development

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Provenance

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The context in which a source or text is produced, which may give clues to its purpose (and its reliability)

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Qualitative data

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Data that can be organised into descriptive categories that are NOT numerical

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Quantitative data

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Numerical data

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Racial integration

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The bringing together and mixing of different racial groups ehich previously were segregated

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Rust Belt

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A region that stretches across the north-east of the USA, the Great Lakes and the Midwest states that has suffered from economic decline of key industries

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Segregation

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The separation of people of different backgrounds, wealth, cultures or nationalities

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Sense of place

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An individuals subjective and emotional attachment to a place, its place meaning

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Social exclusion

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The prevention of groups from being included within particular communities, perhaps as a result of poverty

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Topography

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The shape of the land and distribution of its features

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Topophilia

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The strong attachment to a place

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Topophobia

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The dread or adverse reaction to a place

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Tourist gaze

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What a visitor sees or experiences of a place of interest

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Trailhead attraction

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A primary attraction to which visitors flock and from which they are subsequently redirected to secondary attractions benefitting the wider distracting, city or region

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White flight

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The movement of white people out of the city to the suburbs

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Xenophobia

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The fear of people from other countries

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Attachment

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A strong bond to a place

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Clone Town

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Settlements where the high street is dominated by chain stores

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Experienced place

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Those places that a person spent time in

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Globalisation

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When multinational companies adapt to the local marketplace (McDonalds)

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Insider

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Dominant groups with the social, economic and cultural power within a place, may make a minority feel out of place

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Media place

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Those places that a person has only read about or seen in a film

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Perception of place

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The way a place is viewed or regarded by people. This can be influenced by media representation or personal experience

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Rebranding

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The way a place is redeveloped and marketed so that it gains a new identity it can then attract new investment, retailing, tourists and residents

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Re-imaging

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Disassociates a place from a bad pre-existing images in relation to poor housing, social deprivation, high levels of crime, environmental dereliction. It can then attract new investment, retailing, tourists and residents