Booklet 1 - Changing Places

Question 1

Location Defintion

Answer 1

Where a place is on a map, its latitude and longitude coordinates

Question 2

Locale

Answer 2

Settings where everyday activities take place, e.g. an office, park or home. These settings affect social interactions and help to forge values, attitudes and behaviours

Question 3

Sense of Place

Answer 3

The subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place. People develop a “sense of place” through experience and knowledge of a particular area

Question 4

Insider Perspective of Place:

Answer 4

The perspective of someone who knows a place well and is familiar with the place. They feel welcome in the place.

Question 5

Outsider perspective of place:

Answer 5

The perspective of someone who does not feel welcome in a place/ feels excluded.

Question 6

Near places:

Answer 6

Geographically close places to where a person lives

Question 7

Far places:

Answer 7

Geographically distant from where a person lives

Question 8

Experienced places:

Answer 8

Places that a person has spent time in

Question 9

Media places:

Answer 9

Places an individual hasn’t visited but has a reputation based from media representation.

Question 10

What is an Endogenous factor?

Answer 10

Internal factors that shape a place’s character

Question 11

What is an Exogenous factor?

Answer 11

External factors that shape a places character

Question 12

Examples of Endogenous Factors

Answer 12

• Location
• Topography
• Physical geography
• Land use
• Built environment and Infrastructure
• Demographic and Economic Characteristics

Question 13

Examples of Exogenous Factors

Answer 13

Flows of people, resources, money and investment and ideas, relationships with other places

Question 14

Descriptive Approach to Understanding Place

Answer 14

Places can be understood through specific human and physical characteristics

Question 15

Social Constructionist Approach to Understanding Place

Answer 15

Place is a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time.

Question 16

Phenomenological Approach to Understanding Place

Answer 16

Interested in how an individual experiences place.

Question 17

Topophilia Definition

Answer 17

The affectionate bond between people and place.

Question 18

What is a Palimpsest?

Answer 18

Something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form

Question 19

What is Localism?

Answer 19

An affection for or emotional ownership of a particular place.
Often demonstrated with “NIMBYism’ (not in my backyard)

Question 20

What is Regionalism?

Answer 20

Consciousness and loyalty to a distinct region with a population which has similarities

Question 21

What is Nationalism?

Answer 21

Loyalty and devotion to a nation, which creates a sense of national consciousness

Question 22

Local Place Study

Answer 22

Reigate

Question 23

Endogenous Factors of Reigate

Answer 23

• Physical geography - Reigate Hill on Chalk. Wealden Clays and Lower and Upper greensand. Reigate stone mined in the Middle Ages.
• Topography - Reigate Hill - 220 m
• Economy - 7000 Businesses. Tertiary Economy focused on the service industry
• Demography - 21,820 population, 84% White British
• Infrastructure J8 on the M25
• Land Use and Built Environment - terraced Housing in the centre and semi-detached as you move out
• Location - SE of England, Close to London, Gatwick Diamond

Question 24

Exogenous Factors of Reigate

Answer 24

Flows of Ideas:
- Music - Pub in the park
- RGS - International Schools
- Sporting - Park Run
- Architecture - Neo-Classist
- Food from around the World

Flows of Transport:
- Fast (one change) service to London
- £3000 for an annual ticket
- 30% of the Employed Population work in London

Flows of Capital:
- Average salary of £46,000
- London has 251 International Banks
- House prices increased by 572% since 1995

Flows of People:
- Often people move out of London into Reigate
- Commuter Settlement
- Family Oriented Environment
- Good Schools (RGS)