3.2.2.1 - The Nature and Importance of Places Flashcards
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 more vague and abstract, view more about discovering a personal view of the location and draw fro 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 longditude, coordinates
What is locale?
A place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it.
What is 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 society 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 lack uniqueness
What is freehold?
Outright ownership of a property and the land on which it stands
What is public space?
Places which are connected to natural history, art or state of power
What is urban-rural continuum?
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
What is counterurbanisation?
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 but who travel to work in the nearby large urban area.
What is homogenisation of 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 Snowden a special place?
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
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 tourists 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 perceptions 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
What can importance of place be split into?
Wellbeing
Belonging
Identity
How can ethnic minorities become excluded from rural places?
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
What percentage of visitors to the UK’s national parks are BME?
1%
What are some endogenous factors?
Topography Land usage Physical geography Infrastructure Demographics Built environment Location Economic characteristics
What is a dialect?
A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
What is an accent?
The way in which people in a particular area, country or social group pronounce words
What do accents and dialects contribute to?
Our understanding of residents and sense of place
What negatives can be caused by accents or dialects?
Stereo typing and hiding the diversity of a population
Insider perspective
Perception of someone who knows a place and is familiar not only with topography but its daily rhythms and events
What are the 3 main aspects of a place
. Location (physical and human characteristics
. Locale
. Sense of place
Near place
Local area where people live, work and places they visit regularly
Far place
. Global in scale and include both physical and virtual places
Experienced places
Place we know and have visited
Media places
Places people have read about or have seen on a film
Private place
Places we are experienced with and which we form attachments with
Field of care
Bond between people and place or setting
6 endogenous factor examples
Location
Topography- impacts land use
Natural resources- industries
Demographic
Soil type
History
5 exogenous factor examples
Flows of Investment
Government funding
Flows of people- gentrification, tourism, migration
Globalisation
Flows of resources
3 main ways globalisation has impacted on place?
Global companies- placelessness
Internet- people very experienced with media places
Transport- far places relatively quick to get to, go more frequently
How is Port Wenn represented as a media place
. Police station
. Dr Surgery
. Primary School
. Post Office
What is the real place Port Isaac like
. 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
Where is Glastonbury
. In Somerset
. 23miles south of Bristol
Sense of place in Glastonbury
. Great spiritual importance for those interested in Paganism
. Affiliated with King Arthur
. Evokes emotion through music festival
Glastonbury locale
. Unique character
. Visitor attractions e.g. Glastonbury abbey believe King Arthur is buried there
. Holy Grail hidden nearby
. Quirky with independent shops
