3.1 What Is A Place Flashcards
Key Term: What is a place?
A place is a space to which people have an attachment. It can be summarised as location or description. Location is the physical location where it can be plotted on a map or described using coordinates . Description is the social construction, so what the place means to a person, including both human and physical characteristics.
Key Term: local scale
A village or urban neighbourhood
Key term: a sense of place
This is the emotional meanings a person has to a place, it is subjective meaning it is ‘personal’ to that individual
Key term: locale
A place which is shaped by the people, cultures and customs within it
Why is place important?
It is importance of place to people because it’s often where people feel connections or it relates to an aspect of their lives; connections help form an identity, which is important as it helps you to have a sense of belonging
What are the characteristics that contribute to place identity at a local scale? 
Physical geography, demography, socio-economic factors, cultural factors, political factors, built environment 
Place identity: what is meant by a physical geography?
 E.g. altitude, slope, angle, aspect, drainage, geology 
Place identity: what is meant by demography?
E.g. number of inhabitants, their ages, gender, and ethnicity 
Place identity: what is meant by socio-economic?
E.g. employment types, income and family status, education 
Place identity: what is meant by cultural factors? 
E.g. religion, local traditions, local clubs, and societies 
Play identity: what is meant by political factors?
 E.g. local, regional and national government, local groups such as resident associations 
Place identity: what is meant by built environment?
E.g. age, and style of buildings, including building materials, density of housing 
Key Term: FDI
Foreign Direct Investment
Key term: knowledge economy
The activities that cover, store and process knowledge 
Key term: location
A point in space with specific links to other points in space 
Key term: GPS
Global positioning system 
Key term: lived experience
 The actual feelings and personal history of living in a place 
Key term: identity
 An collection of personal characteristics, such as gender, sexuality, race, and religion 
Key term: life-cycle stage? 
Describes the age and family status of a person, such as young adult, married with children or retired 
Key term: belonging 
A sense of being part of a collective identity 
Key term: diaspora 
The movement of large numbers of people away from their homeland 
Key term: globalisation 
The growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide, through increasing volume and variety of cross border transactions, in goods and services, freer international capital flows and more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology. 
