Changing Places

Question 1

What 4 things constitute a place?

Answer 1

1. Location
2. Physical characteristic of the landscape
3. Human characteristics
4. Sense of place

Question 2

What is meant by a “sense of place”?

Answer 2

The emotional meaning attached to a place

Question 3

What is a “locale”?

Answer 3

• Each place is made up by a series of locales where everyday activities take place e.g. an office, your home
• These locales help dictate our social interactions and help forge attitudes values and behaviours

Question 4

What things can change?

Answer 4

1. The physical environment
2. Human characteristics
3. Flows
4. Sense of place

Question 5

How can the physical characteristics of a place change?

Answer 5

• Climate Change
• Erosion
• Natural Disasters
• War
• Famine

Question 6

How can the human characteristics of a place change?

Answer 6

• Immigration
• Emigration
• Land use

Question 7

How can the human characteristics of a place change?

Answer 7

• Immigration
• Emigration
• Land use

Question 8

How can flows change?

Answer 8

• Investment
• Development of ports

Question 9

How can a sense of place change?

Answer 9

Gentrification

Question 10

What is an insider?

Answer 10

Someone who is familiar with a place and who feels welcome

Question 11

What is an outsider?

Answer 11

Someone who feels unwelcome or excluded from a place

Question 12

Name 3 factors that may make someone feel like an insider or an outsider?

Answer 12

1. Age
2. Sexuality
3. Gender

Question 13

Name 3 factors that can make someone feel like an insider or an outsider

Answer 13

1. Age
2. Sexuality
3. Gender

Question 14

Give an example of how a person might feel like an outsider

Answer 14

An old person might feel like an outsider at a night club

Question 15

What are the 3 theoretical approaches to a sense of place?

Answer 15

1. A descriptive approach
2. A social constructionist approach
3. A phenomenological approach

Question 16

What is a descriptive approach to a sense of place?

Answer 16

The idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct

Question 17

What is a social constructionist approach to a sense of place?

Answer 17

Recognises a place as something that is shaped by the social constructs of a time e.g. Trafalgar Square was built to commemorate a British naval victory in the 1800s - using a social constructionist approach it could be understood as a place of empire and colonialism

Question 18

What is a phenomenological approach to a sense of place?

Answer 18

The emotional attachment between an individual and a place recognising that every individual has a different attachment to a place

Question 19

What is an experienced place?

Answer 19

• Places that people have physically spent time in
• When a person visits or lives in a place, their experience such as the people they meet and the things that they see shape their sense of place
• Once a place has been experienced it can no longer be a media place

Question 20

What is a media place?

Answer 20

• A place that the individual has not been to, but have created a sense of place through their depiction in media (e.g. books, art and films)
• These depictions are usually extremely positive or extremely negative
• Media places can also be fictional places e.g. Hogwarts, which will never fall short of our expectations since we can never experience them

Question 21

What is a near place?

Answer 21

• A place that is geographically near where you live
• You are more likely to feel like an insider here as you have an experienced sense of place

Question 22

What is a far place?

Answer 22

• Distant from where you live
• More likely to feel like an outsider as you are less likely to have experienced the place and feel connected to it

Question 23

What is meant by placelessness?

Answer 23

The essential destruction of individual sense of places, as globalisation has made distant places look and feel the same

Question 24

What is topophilia?

Answer 24

Love of a place

Question 25

What is topophobia?

Answer 25

Hate of a place

Question 26

What are endogenous factors?

Answer 26

• The internal factors which shape a sense of place
• This could be physical e.g. location, topography, physical geography
• This could be human e.g. land use, built environments, demographics

Question 27

What are exogenous factors?

Answer 27

• External factors that shape a sense of place
• The relationship with other places and flows in and out of a place e.g. people

Question 28

Name the 4 exogenous factors that contribute to a sense of place?

Answer 28

1. People - migrants or workers come from outside a place to live or work
2. Capital - how investments from a business based outside of the place shape it
3. Resources - how nearby raw materials and transport infrastructure shape a sense of place
4. Ideas - how urban planners, architects, businesses and artists bring ideas to shape a sense of place