Changing Places Flashcards
(28 cards)
What is place?
A physical location on a map which has different meanings to different people.
What is a locale?
Locations in a place that are related to everyday activities.
What do locales do?
They structure social interaction, and people are likely to show behavioural traits in specific locales.
However it could create social stereotypes
What is sense of place?
When people have an emotional meaning and relationship with the people in a place.
It is quite subjective.
What is placelessness?
When a place is not unique
E.g, clone towns and chain shops
WhIt’s an attachment?
A feeling which binds one subject with another (a person with a place)- The more experienece in a place, the greater the depth of attachment.
What is topophilia?
The love of a place and having a strong attachement
What is topophobia?
Dislike of a place, you still might have an attachment but it will be negative.
Near Places
These places are close to us. They are subjective.
Far Places
Those that are distant. Can have an emotional meaning.
Experienced Places
Places that people have visited. Creates an emotional attachment.
Media Places
Places you havent visitedlearned about through media representation. less of an attachement. Media sources can change our sense of place subconsiously.
Genius Loci
Spirit of a place/ atmosphere, based on what the location is made up of now and in the past.
What is place charaacter?
Specific qualities, attributes or features of a location that makes it unique.
Affectef by en & exogenous factors
What is an endogenous factor?
Factors that origniate from within the place and are local
Endogenous factors
Land use, topography, physical geography, infrastructure, demographics, built envrionment, location and economic characteristics.
What is an exogenous factor?
Originate from outside a place and provide linkages and relationships with and to other places
Refered to as flows
Overtime shaped by the chaning flows of ex factors.
Exogenous factors
People/ impacts, money and investment/ trade, resources and ideas.
What is an insider?
Feel at home within a place due to: being born there, citizenship, fluent in local language and confoRMS for social norms.
What is an outsider?
The opposite of an insider. Due to: might not belong to main ethnic group (immigrant family), not accustomed to culture, social norms and dialect, unfamiliar, different foods and different architecture and vehicals to wht they are used to.
These feelings of unfamiliarity may change in the long-term.
What is perspective of place?
How people veiw a place, either as an outsider. E.g a large influx of immigrants in an area can change the characteristics of a place. Orignial residents can start to feel like outsiders as their surroundings become unfamiliar. however somemight embrace the multiculturalism.
Specific ex = chinatown
What is gentrification?
Renovation and improvement of housing to suit a middle class audience, normally leading to higher house prices.
Impacts of gentrification
Can cause insiders to feel like an outsider overtime due to a shift in culture/ class. This feeling can also occur after a large scale regen project which leads to a change In place of character.
What is ‘the other’?
People who are unfamiliar/ different to the self. Conflict and social tensions can exist when people who do not have the same identity. Allows predjudice agasint them as they can be seen as ‘alien’. Conflict can also be caused due to racism. This isnt just seen bebetween how residents see immigrants, it can be both ways- both interactions mean a lack of socical intergration.
