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3.2.2.1 - The Nature and Importance of Places Flashcards

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What is space?

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A location with no meaning, no locale just location

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What is place?

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A location with meaning

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What is outsider perspective?

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The perspective of people who visit a place, sense of place more vague and abstract, view more about discovering a personal view of the location and draw fro experiences of other places to understand observations.

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What is topophillia?

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A strong attachment to a place

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What is topophobia?

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A sense of dread or adverse reaction to a place, fear

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What are endogenous factors?

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Internal factors that occur entirely within a particular place, to do with its local geography

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What are exogenous factors?

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External forces that occur entirely outside a particular place, based on relationships with other places

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What is location?

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Where a place is on a map, its latitude and longditude, coordinates

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What is locale?

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A place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it.

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What is sense of place?

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A subjective and emotional attachment to a place, a meaning

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What is Gesellschaft?

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Social relations based on impersonal ties, such as duty to a society or organisation.

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What is Gemeinschaft?

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Social relations between individuals, based on close personal and family ties; community.

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What is placelessness?

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The idea that a particular landscape, eg an airport terminal could be anywhere as it lack uniqueness

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What is freehold?

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Outright ownership of a property and the land on which it stands

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What is public space?

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Places which are connected to natural history, art or state of power

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What is urban-rural continuum?

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The merging of 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

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What is counterurbanisation?

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The movement of people out of a city and into the rural areas surrounding it

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What is a suburbanised village?

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Dormitory or commuter villages/towns with a residential population who sleep in the village/town but who travel to work in the nearby large urban area.

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What is homogenisation of landscape?

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The process whereby different landscapes in a country increasingly resemble those found in other countries because similar processes of change are at work.

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How is mount Snowden a special place?

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More than 360,000 people make the three hour climb to the summit each year, a memorable event as many people spend time looking out over the spectacular landscape

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What is the tourist gaze?

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Organised by business entrepreneurs and governments, consumed by the public, it is true of cultural sites and adventure tourism

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How are tourists sites consumed differently by each individual person?

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Everyone’s senses are attuned differently, based on prior experiences, religious beliefs, moral code, family history, ethnicity and education

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How can people’s perceptions of a place cause conflict?

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People can feel very differently about the same place, such as Ground Zero in New York, people experience very contrasting emotions

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What can importance of place be split into?

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Wellbeing
Belonging
Identity

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How can ethnic minorities become excluded from rural places?

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Not an area they are familiar with
Different landscape to the urban areas they know
Not like their country of origin
Not surrounded by other migrants

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What percentage of visitors to the UK’s national parks are BME?

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1%

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What are some endogenous factors?

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Topography
Land usage
Physical geography
Infrastructure
Demographics
Built environment 
Location
Economic characteristics
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What is a dialect?

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A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.

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What is an accent?

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The way in which people in a particular area, country or social group pronounce words

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What do accents and dialects contribute to?

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Our understanding of residents and sense of place

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What negatives can be caused by accents or dialects?

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Stereo typing and hiding the diversity of a population

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Insider perspective

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Perception of someone who knows a place and is familiar not only with topography but its daily rhythms and events

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What are the 3 main aspects of a place

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. Location (physical and human characteristics
. Locale
. Sense of place

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Near place

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Local area where people live, work and places they visit regularly

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Far place

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. Global in scale and include both physical and virtual places

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Experienced places

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Place we know and have visited

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Media places

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Places people have read about or have seen on a film

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Private place

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Places we are experienced with and which we form attachments with

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Field of care

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Bond between people and place or setting

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6 endogenous factor examples

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Location
Topography- impacts land use
Natural resources- industries
Demographic
Soil type
History

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5 exogenous factor examples

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Flows of Investment
Government funding
Flows of people- gentrification, tourism, migration
Globalisation
Flows of resources

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3 main ways globalisation has impacted on place?

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Global companies- placelessness
Internet- people very experienced with media places
Transport- far places relatively quick to get to, go more frequently

43
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How is Port Wenn represented as a media place

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. Police station
. Dr Surgery
. Primary School
. Post Office

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What is the real place Port Isaac like

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. Cornish village
. Population of 721
. 28.4% are pensioners
. No Dr Surgery or secondary school
. Vulnerable population - 15% live in household with no one in work

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Where is Glastonbury

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. In Somerset
. 23miles south of Bristol

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Sense of place in Glastonbury

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. Great spiritual importance for those interested in Paganism
. Affiliated with King Arthur
. Evokes emotion through music festival

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Glastonbury locale

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. Unique character
. Visitor attractions e.g. Glastonbury abbey believe King Arthur is buried there
. Holy Grail hidden nearby
. Quirky with independent shops

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