changing places Flashcards by Elsie Wiltshire

What is a place?

a location created by human experinces

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What is a space?

a location which has no social connections for a human being

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what is placelessness?

the idea that a particu;ar landscape could be anywhere e.g an airport lounge

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who created the concept of placelessness?

Edward Relph

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What three concepts make up John Agnews theory of concept of place?

location- where it is
locale-people,culture and customs
sense of place- emotional attatchment

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Descriptive approach to place?

the world is a set of places

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What is the social constructionsit approach?

sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes

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what geographers surrport the social comstructionist approach to palce?

Doreen Massey
Jon Anderson

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What is the phenemological approach to place?

How an individual experiences a place

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What geographers support the phenominological approach?

Tuan
Edward Relph

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Factors that affect our attachgment to a place

community
culture
Religion
Gender
Age

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what is yi fu tuans baby analogy?

Our attatchment to a place expands with age.
it is influenced by the quality or intensity of a place.

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Topophillia

like of a place

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Topophobia

Dislike of a place

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What are the three aspects that asses the importance of place?

identity
belonging
well-being

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What is localism?

an affection for an emotional ownership of a particular place

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What is regionalism?

consciousness and alliegence to a particular place

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What is nationalism?

Loyalty and devotion to a nation

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What does john montgomerys sense of place invlove?

Physical setting
meaning
Activity

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What is an insider?

someone that feels famillair and welcome in a particular place

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What is an example of an insider?

People who have lived in the same area their whole life

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What is an outsider?

Someone who feels excluded. not yet connected, feel like they dont belong

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What is an example of an outsider?

an immigrant family that have moved to new area where they may not speak the language or understand the customs

What did Edward Relph say about insiders and outsiders?

to be inside a place is to belong to it and identify with it and the more profoundly inside you are the stronger is the identity with the place

What factors contribute to being an outsider?

socially, culturally , politically, economically

What did Tim Creswell say?

Activities and events are linked to a certain place when these links are broken or deemed to have committed a crime they are made to feel as though they are an outsider

spatial aspects

certain areas being excluded from society. can be due to lack of investment in an area or by the government

Diaspora

Dispersion or spread of people from their original homeland

what are exogenous factors

external factors that impact the charcater of a place

what are some examples of exogenous factors

-people -money -resoruces -investment -ideas

what is an endogenous factor

internal factors that influence the charcater of a place

what are some examples of endogenous factors

-topography -land use -physical geog ( RIVERS) -infastructure -demographics -built enviroment -location - economic charcateristcs

What can exogenous factors also be reffered to as?

shifting flows

what are the categories of place

-near -far -experienced -media

what is a near place

a place which is close to us although it can be subjective, e.g your school

what is a far place?

a place that is geophorically far, although it could be an emotional distance

what is an experienced place?

places that have been visited and created an emotional attachment to, however an experineced place can link to media places as some experinced places become experienced due to media

what is a media place?

places that we have not visited,although we have lernt about through media representations news. tv. film

what is genuis loci?

the spirit of a place, it says that every place has a spirit of its own made up of past experiences

What is an example of place marketing?

Amsterdam, the creation of IAMSTRRDAM

What is rebranding?

Investment into an area that creates a new image of the area, such as a depressed and deprived areas being rebranded into a trendy ans touristy area

What is re imaging

Changing a previous poor image of a place into a new and improved one, creating a new image and representation for the area

What are the three types of external forces

Global institutions Government policies Local community groups

How do global institutions impact place and what are some examples

The IMF and world bank , TNCs can control the employment of an areas such as in Detroit, deindustrialiation

How do government policies impact place and examples

The Olympic park and enterprise zones such as Manchester with the bbc, increase employment and change the demographics of place

How do local community groups impact place?

They may focus on a particular movement, create a sense of community (insiders), specific ideas and events linked to the place

What is a top down approach

The approach to improving a place starting from government intervention, such as the investment into deprived areas such as Manchester

what is locale?

the behaviour or the societal norms in a certan area,linking to everyday activities

What are examples of informal representation of place?

Newspapers Photos Songs Poems Tv/film Graffiti

What are examples of formal representations of place?

Statistics/ census data Population data IMD ( deprivation) Polices uk (crime) Cartography GIS

What is place marketing

Branding and sales of an area in order to make it appealing, encouraging tourism and industry

What is rebranding?

Redeveloping and remarketting a place so that it develops a new identity, such as Stratford

What is a bottom up approach

The improvement of an area starting with the local people such as community groups or activists

What did Doreen Massey say about globalisation of place, where did she use as an example?

Kilburn high road