Key terms Flashcards
(38 cards)
Define locale
This is the place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it.
Define location
Where a place is, for example the coordinates on a map.
Define perception of place
This is the way in which place is viewed or regarded by people. This can be influenced by media representation or personal experience.
Define placemaking
The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life.
Define sense of place
This refers to the subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place. People develop a ‘sense of place’ through experience and knowledge of a particular area.
Define positionality
Factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, religion, politics and socio-economic status which influence how we perceive different places.
What are experienced places?
Those places that a person has spent time in.
What are media places?
Those that the person has only read about or seen on film.
Define character of place
The physical and human features that help to distinguish it from another place.
What are exogenous factors?
Those that have an external cause or origin. The demographic, socio-economic and cultural characteristics of a place are shaped by shifting flows of people, resources money and investment.
What are endogenous factors?
Those that originate internally and may include aspects of the site or land on which the place is built, such as height, relief, drainage, soil type, geology and the availability of resources.
What are agents of change?
These are the people who impact on a place whether through living, working or trying to improve that place. Examples would include residents, community groups, corporate entities central and local government and the media.
Define meaning
Individual or collective perceptions of place.
Define representation
How a place is portrayed or ‘seen’ in society.
What is place memory?
The ability of place to make the past come to life in the present.
Define re-imaging
Re-imaging disassociates a place from bad pre-existing images in relation to poor housing, social deprivation, high levels of crime, environmental pollution and industrial dereliction. It can then attract new investment, retailing, tourists and residents.
Define rebranding
Rebranding is the way or ways in which a place is re-developed and marketed so that it gains a new identity. It can then attract new investment, retailing, tourists and residents. It may involve both re-imaging and regeneration.
Define regeneration
Regeneration is a long-term process involving redevelopment and the use of social, economic and environmental action to reserve urban decline and create sustainable communities.
What is media?
Means of communication including television, film, photography, art, newspapers, books, songs, etc. These reach or influence people widely.
What is qualitative data?
Information that is non-numerical and used in relatively unstructured and open-ended way. It is descriptive information, which often comes from interviews, focus groups or artistic depictions such as photographs.
What is quantitative data?
Data that can be quantified and verified, and is amendable to statistical manipulation.
Define objective
Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
Define subjective
Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes or opinions.
Define suburbanisation
A movement of people and services away from the inner city to the edge of built up areas.
