Changing Places

Question 1

What’s place?

Answer 1

• the word ‘place’ has more than one dimension
• it consists of location, physical and human characteristics, flows, and its emotional meaning

Question 2

What’s location?

Answer 2

where a place is located on a a map

Question 3

What’s a locale?

Answer 3

locations in a place which are associated with everyday activities e.g. school, sports activities, can make clone towns unique

Question 4

What’s sense of place?

Answer 4

the subjective emotional attachment to a place which gives it meaning e.g. your hometown
different people have different senses of the same place

Question 5

What’s placelessness?

Answer 5

suggests that a place isn’t unique - clone towns are dominated by chain stores, how globalisation is making distant places look and feel the same

Question 6

What are flows?

Answer 6

flows of money, people , ideas, and resources in and out of a place

Question 7

What’s attachment?

Answer 7

the emotional bond between a person and a place

Question 8

What’s topophilia?

Answer 8

loving a place and having a strong attachment to it

Question 9

What’s topophobia?

Answer 9

the dislike of a place - you can still have a strong negative attachment to it though

Question 10

What’s a near place?

Answer 10

places that are geographically close to us, this is subjective, places that feel like home

Question 11

What’s a far place?

Answer 11

places that are geographically far from us, places that don’t feel like home

Question 12

What’s an experienced place?

Answer 12

places we have visited, some argue that you have to have visited a place to have an emotional attachment to it

Question 13

What’s a media place?

Answer 13

places we haven’t visited but have learned about through media representations, media can change our sense of place

Question 14

What’s genius loci?

Answer 14

the spirit of a place, suggests that every place has a unique spirit or atmosphere

Question 15

What’s place character?

Answer 15

the specific qualities, attributes or features of a location that make it unique

Question 16

What are endogenous factors?

Answer 16

internal factors that originate from within the place, and help shape the character of a place e.g. land use, topography, physical features, infrastructure, demographics, architecture, location, economy

Question 17

What are exogenous factors?

Answer 17

external factors which originate from outside a place and create relationships with other places e.g. people (tourists, migrants), money and investment, resources, ideas

Question 18

What’s an insider?

Answer 18

people who feel like they belong in a place
- born in area
- permanent resident
- passport
- fluent in language
- understands rules of society
- safe, secure, happy

Question 19

Whats an outsider?

Answer 19

people who feel out of place and feel as though they don’t belong in a place
- born somewhere else
- foreign
- temporary visitor
- no passport
- misunderstanding of rules
- alienated

Question 20

What’s space?

Answer 20

an area with no meaning

Question 21

What factors form place attachment?

Answer 21

• family/friends
• religion
• gender
• age
• experiences
• morals
• ethnicity
• education
• interests

Question 22

What’s the relationship between experience and attachment?

Answer 22

experiencing a place increases the strength of attachment

Question 23

What’s the tripartite model of place attachment?

Answer 23

Place attachment
= person
= place
= process

Question 24

What’s person?

Answer 24

who is attached, indicates that attachment can occur both individually and collectively

Question 25

What’s place?

Answer 25

what is attached , social relationship that exists within the realm of an individuals significant place, the natural and built environment of a place can be subjects of person-place bond

Question 26

What’s process?

Answer 26

how does attachment exist, collective effects of effective cognitive and behavioural aspects

Question 27

What’s Information Age?

Answer 27

bombarded with images and other forms of representations about the world

Question 28

What are factors influencing place?

Answer 28

- location - built environment - physical factors - topography - land use - economy - infrastructure - demographic

Question 29

Migration within the EU

Answer 29

- new shops - some schools struggle with large numbers of children having English as a second language

Question 30

Which groups suffer exclusion?

Answer 30

- ethnic minorities - LGBT (opposing views) - homeless (people look down on them) - gypsies (have own communities and traditions) - disabled (accessibility issues) - aged (stereotypes) - immigrants (media portrayal, viewed negatively)

Question 31

What’s formal representation?

Answer 31

- facts, objective, quantitative, statistical data e.g. census data or geospatial data - doesn’t show actual representation of place - quantitative data in unbiased

Question 32

What’s informal representation?

Answer 32

- inaccurate representation, creative, related to certain groups in society e.g. art, media, photos, music, tv, graffiti - subjective - may be interpreted differently - can be changed for context

Question 33

What’s place identity?

Answer 33

how people experience a place and the meaning they give to it

Question 34

What are clone towns?

Answer 34

losing their place identity, chain stores and TNCs can afford rents whereas independent stores are pushed out

Question 35

What’s the provenance?

Answer 35

positive or negative impression, symbols or stereotypes, author/artist choices, context, who created the source

Question 36

Government policies

Question 37

What’s gentrification?

Answer 37

the process of renovation and improvement of housing, usually leading to higher house prices, can make people feel like outsiders

Question 38

What’s rebranding?

Answer 38

the process by which forces of change aim to adapt the place meaning of a location, encourages tourism, helps to overcome negative connotations

Question 39

What does rebranding involve?

Answer 39

- advertising campaigns