Terminology

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Religious identities

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Linked to a place as major religions have sacred/holy places, often destinations of pilgrimage

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Power of place

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How well known/impactful different places are

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Belonging

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Felling like part of a community

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Local identity

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Dependant on the area people were born, food, class and language

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Transition town movement

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Aims to promote wellbeing and belonging by building a strong, healthy community

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Location

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‘Where’ a place is, a point in space

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Locale

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Takes into account the effect people have on their settings. Place is shaped by the people

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Sense of place

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Subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place

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Insider perspective

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Feeling at home in a certain place, feeling like you belong

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Outsider perspective

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Connect negative experiences to place and create a negative perception. Eg exclusive reassurances may make people from disadvantaged backgrounds feel alienated

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Socio- spatial exclusion

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Concept that dominant groups who have social/political power in society determine who is allowed to be in a place and how they should behave.

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Social exclusion

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Separation from family/community
Often on margins of society

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Descriptive theorising place

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Idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studies and is distinct
Focuses on unique characteristics of plave

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Social constructionist theorising place

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Sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time.
Why a place is the way it is

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Phenomenological theorising olave

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Interested in how individuals experience place and the personal relationships between person and place.

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Spatial exclusion

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Moving towards hostile architecture in cities
Criminalising homelessness

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Private

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Belonging to or for the use of a particular person or group

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Public

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Relating to a population or community as a whole

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Experienced place

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Those places that a person has spent time im

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Media places

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Those that the person has only read about or seen in a film

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Character of place

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The physical and human features that help distinguish a plve

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Endogenous factors

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Factor shaping a place that originates from within
Topography, physical site

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Exogenous factors

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Factors shaping a place that are caused of originated externally.
Flows of people, resources, ideas, investment

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Flows of people

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Tourists, migrants - transform places
Labour flows

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Flows of resources

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Resources traded globally have huge impacts on people and places Agriculture, energy, metals

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Flows of investment

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Money can be sent across international borders Foreign investment, aid from disasters

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Flows of ideas

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Advances in communication technology Political (democracy), technology

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Globalisation

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Businesses and organisations developing international influence

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Placelessness

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Casual eradication of distinctive places, weakening the identity of place

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Clone town

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Settlements where high streets are dominated by chain stored

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Glocalisation

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Multinational companies having to adapt to their local marketplaces

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Geospatial data

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Time based data related to a specific location on earth Eg census data, satellite imagery

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Big data

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Extremely large data sets that may be analysed to reveal patterns and trends

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Cittaslow movement

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Idea of introducing slow cities that cherish traditions

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Gentrification

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Urban process taking place in inner city areas, increasing wealth due to the people moving in

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Pioneer gentrification

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Reoccupation of housing, and upgrading properties by individuals

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Mature gentrification

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Arrival of upmarket places, estate agents and improved public transport

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Agents of change

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Individuals or groups that drive change in a place

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Corporate bodies

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Organisations of people identified by a particular name

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Corporate bodies

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Organisations of people identified by a particular name

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Re-imaging

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Dissociates a place from bad pre-existing images

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Rebranding

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Place is redeveloped and marketed to gain a new identity

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Regeneration

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A long term prefers involving redevelopment and the use of action to reverse urban decline

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Privately owned public space

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Eg Zucotti park Open 24 hours a day, but strict rules about camping and lying on benches