3.1 What Is A Place

Question 1

Key Term: What is a place?

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Key Term: local scale

Answer 2

A village or urban neighbourhood

Question 3

Key term: a sense of place

Answer 3

This is the emotional meanings a person has to a place, it is subjective meaning it is ‘personal’ to that individual

Question 4

Key term: locale

Answer 4

A place which is shaped by the people, cultures and customs within it

Question 5

Why is place important?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What are the characteristics that contribute to place identity at a local scale? 

Answer 6

Physical geography, demography, socio-economic factors, cultural factors, political factors, built environment 

Question 7

Place identity: what is meant by a physical geography?

Answer 7

 E.g. altitude, slope, angle, aspect, drainage, geology 

Question 8

Place identity: what is meant by demography?

Answer 8

E.g. number of inhabitants, their ages, gender, and ethnicity 

Question 9

Place identity: what is meant by socio-economic?

Answer 9

E.g. employment types, income and family status, education 

Question 10

Place identity: what is meant by cultural factors? 

Answer 10

E.g. religion, local traditions, local clubs, and societies 

Question 11

Play identity: what is meant by political factors?

Answer 11

 E.g. local, regional and national government, local groups such as resident associations 

Question 12

Place identity: what is meant by built environment?

Answer 12

E.g. age, and style of buildings, including building materials, density of housing 

Question 13

Key Term: FDI

Answer 13

Foreign Direct Investment

Question 14

Key term: knowledge economy

Answer 14

The activities that cover, store and process knowledge 

Question 15

Key term: location

Answer 15

A point in space with specific links to other points in space 

Question 16

Key term: GPS

Answer 16

Global positioning system 

Question 17

Key term: lived experience

Answer 17

 The actual feelings and personal history of living in a place 

Question 18

Key term: identity

Answer 18

 An collection of personal characteristics, such as gender, sexuality, race, and religion 

Question 19

Key term: life-cycle stage? 

Answer 19

Describes the age and family status of a person, such as young adult, married with children or retired 

Question 20

Key term: belonging 

Answer 20

A sense of being part of a collective identity 

Question 21

Key term: diaspora 

Answer 21

The movement of large numbers of people away from their homeland 

Question 22

Key term: globalisation 

Answer 22

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.