key terms

Question 1

location

Answer 1

where a place is (GPS or coordinates)

Question 2

locale

Answer 2

the place where something happens, is set or has particular events associated with it

Question 3

sense of place

Answer 3

subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place, developed through experience and knowledge

Question 4

place

Answer 4

location with meaning

Question 5

perception of place

Answer 5

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

Question 6

attachment to place

Answer 6

a sense of binding to a particular location due to positive and intense experiences

Question 7

placemaking

Answer 7

deliberate shaping of an environment to meet need for social interaction and improves community’s quality of life

Question 8

localism

Answer 8

love for a particular place

Question 9

tourist gaze

Question 10

distant place

Question 11

regionalism

Answer 11

loyalty to a distinct region

Question 12

nationalism

Answer 12

loyalty to a nation

Question 13

identity

Question 14

globalisation

Answer 14

increasing interconnectedness of countries around the world

Question 15

placelessness

Answer 15

places that lack unique character or reputation due to chain stores replacing local independent shops or a lack of attachment experienced by people visiting the place

Question 16

clone town

Answer 16

a town is not significantly different from another (has same shops)

Question 17

homogenised place

Answer 17

places that have become indistinct from one another through the process of making things uniform or similar

Question 18

glocalisation

Answer 18

adapting a business to make it do well in a country (eg Mcdonalds creating McRice in India)

Question 19

belonging

Answer 19

to be part of the community

Question 20

well being

Answer 20

the state of being comfortable, healthy or happy

Question 21

transitional town movement

Answer 21

initiative that puts emphasis on community involvement

Question 22

near places

Answer 22

places that feel close, physically or emotionally

Question 23

far places

Answer 23

places that feel distant, physically or emotionally

Question 24

experienced places

Answer 24

locations a person has visited in their lifetime

Question 25

media places

Answer 25

places an individual hasn't visited but has a reputation based from media representation

Question 26

positionality

Answer 26

refers to factors such as gender, race, age, religion and socio-economic status

Question 27

character of a place

Answer 27

physical and human features that help make it different from another place

Question 28

endogenous factors

Answer 28

internal characteristics of the place itself

Question 29

exogenous factors

Answer 29

external relationship of one place with another

Question 30

infrastructure

Answer 30

services considered essential to enable or improve living conditions

Question 31

agents of change

Answer 31

the people who impact on a place through working, living or improving that place

Question 32

function of a place

Question 33

multinational corporation

Question 34

continuity

Question 35

qualitative data

Question 36

quantitative data

Question 37

meaning of place

Question 38

representation of place

Question 39

place memory

Question 40

perception of place

Question 41

international places

Question 42

reimaging place

Question 43

rebranding place

Answer 43

creating a new look or reputation for an area

Question 44

regeneration of places

Question 45

place marketing

Question 46

crowdsourcing

Question 46

corporate body

Question 47

objective

Question 48

subjective

Question 49

community

Question 50

local group

Question 51

residents associations

Question 52

counter mapping

Question 53

mercator projection

Question 54

biomapping

Question 55

textual source

Question 56

augmented place

Question 57

literary source

Question 58

demographic characteristics

Question 59

multiple deprivation

Question 60

economic characteristics

Question 61

social characteristics

Question 62

inequalities

Question 63

artistic representations of place

Question 64

lived experience of place

Question 65

market town

Question 66

gentrification

Question 67

geospatial data

Question 68

cultural character

Question 69

oral sources of data

Question 70

dialect

Question 71

topography

Question 72

built environment

Question 73

chloropleth map

Question 74

international institutions

Question 75

global institutions

Question 76

national institutions

Question 77

heritage tourism

Question 78

deprivation

Question 79

census

Question 80

insiders

Answer 80

someone who feels like they belong in a place and identifies with it

Question 81

outsiders

Answer 81

someone who does not feel like they belong in a place

Question 82

descriptive approach

Answer 82

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

Question 83

social constructionist approach

Answer 83

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

Question 84

phenomenological approach

Answer 84

is not interested in the characteristics of a place but instead how an individual person experiences place

Question 85

genius loci

Answer 85

the unique spirit or atmosphere of a place based on everything the location is made up of, now and in the past

Question 86

topophilia

Question 87

topophobia