Changing Places Flashcards
(46 cards)
What is place making ?
Deliberate shaking of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a communities quality of life
3 aspects of place ?
Locale= place is shaped by people and customs within it
Sense of place= subjective emotional attachment people have to a place
Theoretical approaches to place ?
1) descriptive approach
World is a set of places that is studyable and distinct
2) social constructionist approach
Sees place a product of a set of particular social processes e.g read algae square comemorating naval victory
3) phenomenological approach
- interested in how individual person see the place
3 aspects of importance of place to humans ?
Identity
Belonging
Wellbeing
What is identity ?
Evident in nationalism as people identify as ‘British’ therefore expressing the importance of the place they were from, can be at local level e.g Mancunian, resurgence of Welsh has lead to stronger Welsh identity
What is belonging ?
- Means to be part of the community
- sense of belonging can be influenced by many factors e.g age gender and race
- through globalisation places have become more multicultural
What is wellbeing ?
Certain features in a place generally accepted to be important in promoting happiness and wellbeing, different factors important to different people
What did Massey argue?
Places aren’t static but dynamic and have no boundaries with multiple identities
What is globalisation of place ?
- some argue globalisation has homogenised places through increased presence of global chains e.g Starbucks
What is a clone town ?
Settlement where high street is dominated by chain stores (TNCs) = placeless
Example of a place trying to stop homogenisation ?
Anti costa campaign in Devon equally chains are aiming to adapt to the local places through globalisation
What is localisation of place ?
E.g Devon encouraging people to spend locally to prevent leakage from local economy into global financial systems
E.g Bristol pound
Transition town movement ?
Create to tackle oil peak and climate change but now works on dilution of place and loss of community-owned breweries and creating community owners energy
Insider and outsider perspectives on place ?
- people have Strong relationships with places they’re familiar with
- people and practises become strongly linked to places and when these links are broken people who break these links appear to have committed a crime
- gender is important example of how place was established e.g woman’s place was stereotypically At home
- significance people attach to a place may be influenced by feeling aid alienation or belonging
- place attachment comes with positive experience of a place
- migrants often seen as outsider of a place e.g Britain first makes immigrants seen as outsiders
Experienced place ?
Places where a person has spent time in
Media place ?
Those a person has only seen through media
Example how media can skew reality of places ?
Magazines displaying rural areas as idyllic reinforcing nostalgic memories and hiding problems of rural areas such as unemployment and lack of affordable housing
- urban areas often described as less desirable and polluted which United recent schemes to regenerate many nice city areas
Economic factors tend to have the biggest impact on character of place e.g?
Changes may also result from migration, conflict and natural disasters
- e.g for economic, Tata steel cutting jobs = major job losses in places highly depended on steel industry
How can conflict arise when external forces attempt to change a place ?
E.g locals unhappy about presence of Olympic Games in Stratford
Factors affecting character of place ?
- built environment
- political factors e.g strength of local councils
- demographic size
- physical geography
- socio- ecomic factors
Examples of endogenous factors ?
Height, relief, drainage, and infrastructure
Explain the process how exogenous factors are now having more influence on place ?
- places usually have one major function of a place
- exogenous factors originating from outside a place e.g technology advancements diminish initial functions of a place such as immigration which creates more multicultural societies
Example of continuity and change ? bournville continuity example
Bournville village in Birmingham
- Cadbury’s family entered and converted estate to having recreational parks and sanitary houses for Cadbury’s employees
- Cadbury’s employees no longer there but community feel and appearance is much the same with planning tightly controlled
Colombia as example of change in a community ?
Medellin
- log associated with drugs and violence under power of the drug lord Pablo Escobar
- dubbed most dangerous city in the world
- city planners now recognise inequality between poor and rich so have enabled poor to access economic activity in centre via transport systems
- educational programmes been funded
Results
- poverty reduces
- crime still high but changes take time and city is positive
