🧍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

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

Question 7

What are exogenous factors?

Answer 7

External forces that 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

What is Gesellschaft?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What is Gemeinschaft?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What is placelessness?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is freehold?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What is private space?

Answer 15

Places which are experienced and with which people have specific attachments

Question 16

What is public space?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is urban-rural continuum?

Answer 17

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 18

What is counterurbanisation?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

What is a suburbanised village?

Answer 19

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 20

What is homogenisation of landscape?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

How is mount Snowden a special place?

Answer 21

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 22

What is the tourist gaze?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

How are tourists sites consumed differently by each individual person?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

Question 25

What can importance of place be split into?

Answer 25

Wellbeing
Belonging
Identity

Question 26

How can ethnic minorities become excluded from rural places?

Answer 26

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 27

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

Answer 27

1%

Question 28

What are some endogenous factors?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

What is a dialect?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What is an accent?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What do accents and dialects contribute to?

Answer 31

Our understanding of residents and sense of place

Question 32

What negatives can be caused by accents or dialects?

Answer 32

Stereo typing and hiding the diversity of a population