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3.2.2.1 - The Nature Of Important 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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POV 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 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 tophophobia?

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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 e.g rock type

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What is location?

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Where a place is on a map, its latitude and longitude - coordinates

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What is locale?

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

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What is a sense of place?

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A subjective and emotional attachment to a place, a mening

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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 Gemeinshaft?

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

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What is placeless?

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

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What is freehold?

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

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What is a public space?

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

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What is an 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 nearly 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 3 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 businesses 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 peoples perceptions of place cause conflict?

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People can feel very differently about the same place, such as Ground zero in NY, people experience very contrasting emotions

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What can importance of place be split into? (3)

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Well-being
Belonging
Identity

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How can ethnic minorities become excluded from rural places? (4)

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  • Not an area they are family 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? (8)

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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 particular areas, 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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Stereotyping and hiding the diversity of a population

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Insider perspective

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Perception of a 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 seen on a film

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Private places

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Places we are experiences 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 of land use
Natural resources - industries
Demographic
Soil type
History

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5 exogenous factor exmaples

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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 - placeless news
Internet - people very experienced with media places
Transport - far places relatively quick to get to, go more frequently

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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 real place (Port Isaac) like?

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  • Cornish village
  • Population of 721
  • 28.4% pensioners
  • No dr surgery or secondary school
  • Vulnerable population (15% live in household with no one in workO
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Where is Glastonbury?

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Somerset , 23 miles south of Bristol

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Sense of place in Glastonbury?

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  • Great spiritual important 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
  • Quirky with independent shops

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