✅3.2.2.1 - The Nature and Importance of Places

Question 1

What is space?

Answer 1

A location with no meaning, no locale just location

Question 2

What is place?

Answer 2

Space with meaning

Question 3

What is outsider perspective?

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

What is topophillia?

Answer 4

A strong attachment to a place

Question 5

What is topophobia?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What are endogenous factors?

Answer 6

Internal place making factors which occur entirely within a particular place; local geography

Question 7

What are exogenous factors?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is location?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What is locale?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What is sense of place?

Answer 10

A subjective and emotional attachment to a place, a meaning

Question 11

According to Agnew, what are the 3 requirements for space to become place

Answer 11

location, locale, sense of place

Question 12

What is Gesellschaft?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What is Gemeinschaft?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is placelessness?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What is freehold?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What is private space?

Answer 16

Places which are experienced and with which people have specific attachments

Question 17

What is public space?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is urban-rural continuum?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

What is counterurbanisation?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What is a suburbanised village?

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

What is homogenisation of landscape?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

How is mount Snowden a special place?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What is the tourist gaze?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

How are tourists sites consumed differently by each individual person?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What can importance of place be split into?

Answer 26

Wellbeing
Belonging
Identity

Question 27

How can ethnic minorities become excluded from rural places?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

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

Answer 28

1%

Question 29

What are some endogenous factors?

Answer 29

Topography
Land usage
Physical geography
Infrastructure
Demographics
Built environment
Location
Economic characteristics

Question 30

What are some exogenous factors?

Answer 30

people
capital/ investment flows
resources
ideas
trade flows
tech flows

Question 31

What is a dialect?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

What is an accent?

Answer 32

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

Question 33

What do accents and dialects contribute to?

Answer 33

Our understanding of residents and sense of place

Question 34

What negatives can be caused by accents or dialects?

Answer 34

Stereo typing and hiding the diversity of a population

Question 35

Factors that make a place feel nearer or further

Answer 35

Transport links
Travel time
Duration and frequency of visits
Experience & memories
Language & culture
Familiarity
Media coverage
Family connections
Communications
Borders
Conflicts

Question 36

What is a media place

Answer 36

Places we have not visited but may have learned about and developed a connection to through media representation
Can create false impression of place
Can be fictional like Hogwarts

Question 37

Why does perception of place matter

Answer 37

Attraction/ detraction of investment
tourism, tourist behaviours
local pride
cycle of deprivation - broken window theory

Question 38

What is an insider’s perspective?

Answer 38

the perspective of someone who knows a place well

Question 39

What is an outsider’s perspective?

Answer 39

the perspective of someone who doesn’t know a place well
(not necessarily just new people to an area, could be children in unaccommodating places for example)