3.2.2.1 - The Nature Of Important 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?
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
What is Topophillia?
A strong attachment to a place
What is tophophobia?
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 e.g rock type
What is location?
Where a place is on a map, its latitude and longitude - coordinates
What is locale?
A place where something happens or is set, or that has a particular events associated with it
What is a sense of place?
A subjective and emotional attachment to a place, a mening
What is Gesellschaft?
Social relations based on impersonal ties, such as duty to a society or organisation
What is Gemeinshaft?
Social relations between individuals, based on close personal and family ties; community
What is placeless?
The idea that a particular landscape, eg an airport terminal could be anywhere as it lacks uniqueness
What is freehold?
Outright ownership of a property and land on which it stands §
What is a public space?
Places which are connected to natural history, art or state of power
What is an 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 nearly 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 3 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 businesses 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 peoples perceptions of place cause conflict?
People can feel very differently about the same place, such as Ground zero in NY, people experience very contrasting emotions
What can importance of place be split into? (3)
Well-being
Belonging
Identity
How can ethnic minorities become excluded from rural places? (4)
- 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
What percentage of visitors to the UK’s national parks are BME?
1%
What are some endogenous factors? (8)
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 particular areas, 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?
Stereotyping and hiding the diversity of a population
Insider perspective
Perception of a 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 seen on a film
Private places
Places we are experiences with and which we form attachments with.
Field of care
Bond between people and place or setting
6 endogenous factor examples
Location
Topography - impacts of land use
Natural resources - industries
Demographic
Soil type
History
5 exogenous factor exmaples
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 - placeless news
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 real place (Port Isaac) like?
- 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
Where is Glastonbury?
Somerset , 23 miles south of Bristol
Sense of place in Glastonbury?
- Great spiritual important 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
- Quirky with independent shops
