approaches

Question 1

what is place attachment?

Answer 1

the emotional bond between a person and a place

Question 2

what does scannel and gifford (2010) define the variables of place attachment as?

Answer 2

the 3 p’s

person process and place

Question 3

why do people have different perceptions of the same place?

Answer 3

due to the fact that people associate different feelings with the same place

Question 4

what is space?

Answer 4

an area with no meaning

Question 5

what is place?

Answer 5

a space with a meaning

Question 6

when does a space become a place?

Answer 6

when you build on it

Question 7

what makes a place important to you?

Answer 7

• attachment to a place expands with age
• depth of feeling is influenced by our knowledge and understanding
• quality or intensity of the experience
• enjoyment/experience

Question 8

what is a descriptive approach?

Answer 8

the idea that the world is a destinctive set of places and each place is unique

Question 9

what is a social constructive approach?

Answer 9

places are the way they are because of a particular set of social processes occuring at a particular time

Question 10

what is a phenomenological approach?

Answer 10

this approach looks at how people feel about places rather than what is physically there (or not there)