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Changing Places Glossary Flashcards

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Place

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More than its physical location, it’s a space given meaning by people

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Placelessness

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A place that lacks uniqueness, could be anywhere e.g. an airport

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Tourist gaze

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Something that attracts tourists e.g. Betty’s Tea Rooms

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Location

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Where a place is on a map, it’s latitude and longitude

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Locale

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Something you associate with a place

Harrogate locale:
Betty’s Tea Rooms
Valley gardens
Pump Rooms

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Sense of place

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Personal and emotional attachment to a place through experience

E.g. Harrogate as it’s where I’ve grown up

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Place meaning

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Personal and emotional attachment to a place through experience

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Place making movement

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Places great emphasis on identity, belonging and well-being

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Perception of place

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Developed through what people have heard, seen or read about a place that they may not have been

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Place making

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Deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life

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Descriptive approach

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

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Social constructionist approach

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Sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time

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Phenomenological approach

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How an individual experiences place

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Identity

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The meaning we give to a location is so strong that it features as a part of our identity

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Out of place

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A feeling of not being ‘normal’ , not fitting in , in the context of a particular society or locale

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Insiders

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Someone who feels safe, secure and ‘at home’ in a place; they understand the social norms of the society and feel included. They can play an active social and economic role in society

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Positionally

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Gender, age, race, social status, economic status, and marital status

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Belonging

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Being part of the community

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Outsiders

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Someone who feels homesick, alienated or excluded from society in a specific place; they may not be able to take an active role, e.g. in work or study as a result of socially constructed barriers

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Spatial exclusion

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The disconnection between social interaction with other people or the society, caused by spatial and temporal constraints

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Nimbyism

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‘Not in my backyard’- people objecting to something as it’s close to them

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Far place

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  1. Refers to geographical distance between two places

2. Could describe the emotional connection with a place and how comfortable a person feels within that place

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Near place

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  1. Refers to geographical distance between two places

2. Could describe the emotional connection with a place and how comfortable a person feels within that place

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Genius loci

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A term used by planners to describe the key characteristics of a place, with which any new developments must occur

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Dialect
A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a place, region or social group
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Agents of place
People who impact on a place whether through living, working or trying to improve a place ``` E.g. Residents Community groups Corporate entitles Central and local gov Media ```
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Endogenous factor
Local demographic characteristics and the physical geography of a place
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Exogenous factor
The relationships of one place with other places and the external factors which affect this
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Social housing
Housing provided for people on low incomes or with particular needs by government agencies or non-profit organisations
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Representation
How a place is portraye or ‘seen’ in society
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First space representations
An attempt to understand a place in terms of quantitative analysis, looking at what is physically present in a place
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Second space representations
Subjective accounts of personal experience and capture a sense of place in a way that firstpace accounts can’t
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Third space representations
We build a rich image of what a place is like and how it is experienced and perceived
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Qualitative data
Data that is subjective
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Quantitative data
Data that is objective
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Place marketing
To create positive perceptions of a place
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Re imaging place
Changing how a place is ‘seen’
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Rebranding place
Used to discard negative perceptions of a place e.g 2013- Poeple make Glasgow
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Regeneration
Making a place more appealing e.g. Llandudno
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Clone town
A town where it’s dominated by chain stores
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Homogenised places
A place that resembles another place
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Stakeholders
A person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business
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Corporate body
A legal entity identified by a particular name elf, an association, company, person, government, government agency or institution e.g. Conwy County Council
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Heritage tourism
Traveling to experience the places, artefacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past
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Place meaning
Subjective and emotional attachment to a place
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“Topophilia”
A strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place
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Extension: Orientalism
Style or traits considered characteristic of the people and cultures of a place
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Social exclusion
When an individual is out of place dipute to aspects like language barriers and conforming to local norms
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Reliability
How accurate sources are from another’s perception
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Provenance
The place of origin of something
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Textual analysis
A way for researchers to gather info about how other people make sense of the world - cultures
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“Big Data”
Big in terms of scale and it requires huge amounts of servers- volume, velocity, digital footprint
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Bio mapping
A method trying to measure sense of place, mapping of emotions shown by people to certain places through the use of a device which records heart rate
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Crowd sourcing
Asking the public and around the world for their opinion e.g. Glasgow 42 countries
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Geospatial data
Info about a physical object that can be represented by numerical values (address, city, postcode)
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Census
Systematically acquiring and recording info about the members of a given population
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Deprivation
The lack or denial of care for an area, a deprived area
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Multiple deprivation
Different types of deprivation (lack of education, poor health, high crime levels, high unemployment) are combined into one overall measure of deprivation
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Objective
Based on quantitative data
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Subjective
Based on qualitative data
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Counter mapping
A bottom up process by which people produce their own maps, informed by their own local knowledge and understanding of a place
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Localism
An affection or emotional ownership of a particular place
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Regionalism
Conscious of and loyalty to a distinct region with a population that shares similarities
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Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nation which creates a sense of national consciousness
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Globalism
Geographical movements across national borders of people seeking employment, money, cultural values
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Localisation
An affection for or emotional ownership of a particular place
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Globalisation
Multinational companies are increasingly having to adapt to the local marketplace
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Experienced place
Those places people have spent time in
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Media place
Places those have only read about or seen on TV or in film
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Information Age
Historic period characterised by the rapid shift from traditional industry to an economy based on technology
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Cartography
The science or practice of drawing maps
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Statistics
Mathematics dealing with data collection, analysis interpretation and presentation of results
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Target audience
A particular group at which product such as survey it aimed at

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