Changing Places Key Termns Flashcards
(30 cards)
Location
A point in space with specific links to other points in space
Locale
Setting where built and social interconnect
Sense of place
Subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place
Endogenous
Factors affecting the characters of a place from inside
Exogenous
Factors affecting the characters of a place from outside
Media place
The virtual world, which undermines the traditional relationship between the physical and social setting
Private place
Places which are experienced and with which people have specific attachments
Experienced place
A place that is known and has been visited
Public place
Places which are connected to natural history, art or state of power
Insiders
The people who live in a place
Outsiders
The people who visit a place
Near place
Places we visit regularly
Far place
Global in scale and include both physical and virtual places
Place
Locations with meaning
Placelessness
The idea that a particular landscape, such as an airport, “could be anywhere” because it lack uniqueness
Tophilia
A strong attachment to a place
Topophobia
A dread or adverse reaction to a place
Gesellschaft
Ever changing life of the large cosmopolitan, commercial city
Gemeinschaft
Unchanging peasant society, organised in small inward looking, idyllic communities, based on kindship
Dialect
A form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group
Accent
They way in which people in a particular area, country or social group pronounce words
Meaning
Relates to people’s perception of a place
Representation
How a place is portrayed or seen in society
place meaning- 911 memorial, New York
Tourists like to view the site as a place that is for people to remember what happened, but to someone who may know the victims may find it a bit insensitive for it to be a place that anyone an visit and get gifts from the shop, they may view it as making a mockery out of people who lost their life.