The Nature and Importance of Places🏘 Flashcards
(32 cards)
What is space?
A location with no meaning, no locale, just location
What is place?
A location with meaning
What is outsider perspective?
The perspective of people who visit a place
Sense of place is more vague and abstract
View more about discovering a personal view of the location and draw from experiences of other places to understand observations
What is topophillia?
A strong attachment to a place
What is topophobia?
A sense of dread or adverse reaction to a place
Fear
What are endogenous factors?
Internal factors that occur entirely within a particular place, to do with its local geography
What are exogenous factors?
External forces that occur entirely outside a particular place, based on relationships with other places
What is location?
Where a place is on a map, its latitude and longitude, cooridnates
What is locale?
A place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it
What is a sense of place?
A subjective and emotional attachment to a place, a meaning
What is Gesellschaft?
Social relations based on impersonal ties, such as duty to a soviet or organisation
What is Gemeinschaft?
Social relations between individuals, based on close personal and family ties; community
What is placelessness?
The idea that a particular landscape, eg an airport terminal could be anywhere as it lacks uniqueness
What is freehold?
Outright ownership of a property and the land on which it stands
What is private space?
Places which are experienced and with which people have specific attachments
What is public space?
Places which are connected to natural history, art or state of power
What is urban-rural continuum?
The merging of a town and country, a term used in recognition of the fact that in general there is rarely, either physically or socially, a sharp division, a clearly marked boundary between the two
What is counter-urbanisation?
The movement of people out of a city and into the rural areas surrounding it
What is a suburbanised village?
Dormitory or commuter villages/towns with a residential population who sleep in the village/town nut who travel to work in the nearby large urban area
What is homogenisation of a landscape?
The process whereby different landscapes in a country increasingly resemble those found in other countries because similar processes of change are at work
How is mount Snowdon a special place?
More than 360,000 people make the 3 hour climb to the summit each year, a memorable event as many people spend time looking out over the spectacular landscape
What is the tourist gaze?
Organised by business entrepreneurs and governments, consumed by the public, it is true of cultural sites and adventure tourism
How are tourist sites consumed differently by each individual person?
Everyone’s senses are attuned differently, based on prior experiences, religious beliefs, moral code, family history, ethnicity and education
How can people’s perception of a place cause conflict?
People can feel very differently about the same place, such as Ground Zero in New York, people experience very contrasting emotions
