10/10/19 Key Word Test

Question 1

What is space?

Answer 1

Area with no meaning

Question 2

What is place?

Answer 2

Space with meaning

Question 3

What is location?

Answer 3

Where a place is e.g. coordinates

Question 4

What is locale?

Answer 4

Setting where activities/events take place/have taken place

Question 5

What is sense of place?

Answer 5

Subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place

Question 6

What is placelessness?

Answer 6

Idea that a landscape could be anywhere in the world because it’s not unique

Question 7

What is localism?

Answer 7

An emotional ownership of a particular place

Question 8

What is regionalism?

Answer 8

Consciousness of and loyalty to a distinct region with a population that shares similarities

Question 9

What is nationalism?

Answer 9

Loyalty to a nation which creates a sense of national consciousness

Question 10

What is an insider?

Answer 10

An individual who’s familiar with a place and feels welcome in the place

Question 11

What is an outsider?

Answer 11

An individual who feels excluded/unwelcome in a place

Question 12

What does positionality refer to?

Answer 12

Factors which influence how we perceive places

Question 13

What does nonplace refer to?

Answer 13

Places which don’t go anywhere but endlessly refer to other places

Question 14

What are experienced places?

Answer 14

Places we’ve spent time in as residents or tourists

Question 15

What are media places?

Answer 15

Places we haven’t been to but created a sense of place through depictions in the media

Question 16

What is topophilia?

Answer 16

Human love of place

Question 17

What is topophobia?

Answer 17

A dread to a place as different people notice different things about a place

Question 18

What is genius loci

Answer 18

The unique atmosphere or spirit of a place which includes its nature and characteristics

Question 19

What are near places?

Answer 19

Geographically near and people feel like insiders as they’ve experienced them and feel comfortable in them

Question 20

What are far places?

Answer 20

Geographically far and people feel like outsiders as they haven’t experienced them and feel uncomfortable in them

Question 21

What is character of a place?

Answer 21

Physical and human characteristics which distinguish a place from other places

Question 22

What are endogenous factors?

Answer 22

Internal/local factors which shape a place’s character

Question 23

What are exogenous factors?

Answer 23

External factors which shape a place’s character

Question 24

What is rebranding?

Answer 24

Giving a place a new identity so it’s more appealing to people

Question 25

What is place marketing?

Answer 25

How places are sold to consumers

Question 26

What is reimaging?

Answer 26

Changing existing negative perceptions of places into more positive feelings and attitudes

Question 27

What is regeneration?

Answer 27

Long term process involving socio-eco-env redevelopment to reduce urban decline and create sustainable communities

Question 28

What is a corporate body?

Answer 28

Organisation identified by a particular name

Question 29

What is representation?

Answer 29

Communication where people tell each other about places

Question 30

What do visual representations do?

Answer 30

Show what places look like and can give a sense of place