3.2.2 changing places

Question 1

What is location

Answer 1

Where a place is on a map, it’s latitude and longitude

Question 2

What is locale

Answer 2

The place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it

Question 3

What is Sense of place (place meaning)

Answer 3

The subjective and emotional attachment to a place, people develop a sense of place through experience and knowledge of a particular area

Question 4

What is the importance of place

Answer 4

People define themselves through a sense of place and by living in places and carrying out a range of everyday practices there a person pace relationship is developed

Question 5

What is attachment to a place influenced by

Answer 5

influenced by the depth of our knowledge and understanding of a place - this attachment increases with age as we learn more about our home

influenced by the quality or intensity of experience we have there. So the more enjoyable the experience or the greater degree to which we feel safe in a place (where all our need are met) the more attached we feel to it

Question 6

how can the importance of place be explored

Answer 6

by looking at three aspects - identity, belonging and well-being

Question 7

What is placemaking

Answer 7

the deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life

Question 8

What is identity

Answer 8

Our sense of place, the meaning we give to a location

Question 9

What may change or affect people and their identity

Answer 9

changes in nature of places (social, economic or environmental) e.g football fans confidence takes a hit when their team loses

Question 10

what scales can identity be evident at

Answer 10

• Localism (an affection or emotional ownership of a particular place)
• Regionalism ( consciousness of and loyalty to a distinct region with a population that shares similarities
• Nationalism (loyalty and deviation to a nation)

Question 11

how has globalisation affected place

Answer 11

Some argue that globalisation has made place less important as the forces of global capitalism have eroded local cultures and produced identical or homogenised places.

This can be seen through the presence of global chains in high streets all over the world

Question 12

what is a clone town

Answer 12

used to describe urban retail areas dominated by national (and some international) chain stores

Question 13

What is placelessness

Answer 13

it could be anywhere because it lacks uniqueness

Question 14

What is glocalization

Answer 14

Multinational companies are increasingly having to adapt to the local marketplace

Question 15

What is belonging

Answer 15

To be part of a community, increasingly seen as one of the key factors to make a place sustainable and successful

Question 16

What factors affect your sense or belonging

Answer 16

Age, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, religion, level of education

Question 17

What is well being

Answer 17

Individuals have different views about what makes a place great, these features that are generally accepted to be more important in promoting wellbeing within a place

Question 18

what is the difference between insider and outsiders

Answer 18

Insiders feel as though they belong and outsiders feel like they don’t belong

Question 19

Characteristics of an insider

Answer 19

Born in X or their parents are born there, permanent resident, fluent in local language and understands unspoken rules of society

Question 20

Characteristics of an outsider

Answer 20

Not born in X, they are an immigrant, temporary visitor, not fluent and doesn’t understand social interactions there

Question 21

What is the difference between near and far places

Answer 21

Could refer to the geographical distance between places or could describe the emotional connection with a particular place and how comfortable a person feels within that place

Question 22

What is the difference between experienced and media places

Answer 22

Experienced places are those places that a person has spent time in whereas media places are those that the person has only read about or seen on film or tv

Question 23

Media representations and reality

Answer 23

In the so-information-age’, we are bombarded with images and other forms of representation of the world every single day

We have to sift through it to try to make sense of it all.
The representations of places that feature in the media often give contrasting images to those presented by official cartography, such as Ordnance Survey maps, or statistics, such as census data

Question 24

Example of a experienced versus media place

Answer 24

Maya bay in Thailand, through the movie the Beach people expected it to be peaceful and tranquil however in reality it was crowded with up to 5,000 a day with boats damaging the ecosystems

Question 25

What is character of a place

Answer 25

Refers to the physical and human geographic characteristics that distinguish a particular place

Question 26

What determines the character of a place

Answer 26

Endogenous factors and exogenous factors

Question 27

What are endogenous factors

Answer 27

Internal factors, local demographic characteristics and the physical geography of a place

Question 28

What are exogenous factors

Answer 28

Some influences on places aren’t local, external factors e.g flows of people, resources, money and investment and ideas

Question 29

what other concepts help shape place

Answer 29

Demographic and economic characteristics e,g census data

Question 30

What are the theoretical approaches to place

Answer 30

• Descriptive approach : set places that can be studied
• social constructist approach : sees place as result of social processes happening at the time
• phenomological approach : how an individual experiences a place