Changing Places- Key terms and defnitions

Question 1

Location

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where a place is

Question 2

Local

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The place where something happens is set or has a particular event associated with it.

Question 3

Place

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Location with meaning. Place can be meaningful to individuals in ways that are personal or subjective

Question 4

Perception of place

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The way in which a place is viewed or regarded by people (influenced by the media or personal experience)

Question 5

Placemaking

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Deliberate shaping of an environment to meet needs for social interaction and improve the quality of life

Question 6

Sense of place

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Subjective and emotional attachment that people have to a place

Question 7

Representation of place

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How a place is portrayed and ‘seen’ in society

Question 8

Meaning

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Relates to individual or collective perceptions of a place

Question 9

Phenomenological approch

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How an individual person experiences a place, recognising a highly personal relationship between place and person, Yi-Fu Tuan and Edward Phelps are important in this approach

Question 10

Social constructionist approach

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Place is a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time

Question 11

Descriptive approach

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The subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place. This may be completely different when looked at from another’s perspective. Subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place. developed through experience and knowledge of an area.

Question 12

Identity

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An assemblage of personal characteristics such as gender, sexuality, race and religion

Question 13

Belonging

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A sense of being part of a collective identity

Question 14

Localism

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Love for a particular place

Question 15

Regionalism

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Loyalty to a district reigion

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Nationalism

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Loyalty to a nation

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Insider perspective

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Insiders develop a sense of place through their everyday experiences in familiar settings with a daily rhythm and shared experiences

Question 18

Outsider perspective

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More abstract and vague sense of place than an insider, often associated with a discovery, so a personal view of entering a particular location or landscape and learning about it

Question 19

Postitionality

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Refers to actors such as gender, race, age, religion and socio-economic status, which influence how we perceive different places

Question 20

Experieced places

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Places that a person has spent time in

Question 21

Characteristics of a place

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Physical and human features that help make it different from other places

Question 22

Agents of change

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Individuals, groups, multinational corporations, institutions (national or international), media and governments that have driven change either intentionally or unintentionally

Question 23

Homogenistation

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The process whereby places and social characteristics become similar to each other, so that they eventually become indistinguishable

Question 24

Endogenous factors

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Characteristics of a place itself (internal). Physical site and situation, topography, land use, social and economic characteristics such as population size and employment ratesE

Question 25

Exogenous factors

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Relationship of one place with other places (external). The characteristics of a place are shaped by shifting flows of people, resources, money and investment

Question 26

Infrastrcture

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Services considered essential to enable or improve living conditions

Question 27

Palimpsets

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Something that has been reused or altered but still bears visible traces of an earlier form

Question 28

Place-memory

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The ability to make the past come to life in the present, for example, the historical frontage of the old King's Cross station being retained in the new development of the station

Question 29

Re-imaging

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Disassociates places from bad pre-existing images in relation to crime, social deprivation or industrial dereliction. It can then attract new investment from retail, corporations and residents

Question 30

Rebranding

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The way in which a place is redeveloped and marketed so that it gains a new identity

Question 31

Regeneration

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A long-term process involving redevelopment and the use of social, environmental and economic action to reverse urban decline and create sustainable communities

Question 32

Qualitative data

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Information is numerical and used in a relatively unstructured and open way. Descriptive information, often coming from interviews, artistic depictions, or autobiographies

Question 33

Quantitative data

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Data that can be quantified and verified, and i available to statistical manipulation

Question 34

Near place

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Places that are closer geographically to where someone is, or familiar and experienced, despite being geographically far away

Question 35

Far place

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Places which are either geographically far away and therefore not experienced, or a place that is geographically near but unfamiliar in some way

Question 36

Media places

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Electronic and social media allow an experience of s place virtually, without actually being there physically