CAT Test 2 Flashcards
Place
A location that has been given meaning by an individual or people.
e.g. Harrogate
Placelessness
Somewhere that has lost its individuality so it looks like other areas.
e.g. Airports
Location
Where a place is on a map.
Latitude and longitude.
e.g. Leeds- 53.48 degrees North, 1.32 degrees West.
Locale
Effect people have on a place and how people feel about it
Somewhere where something happens or has events associated with it.
e.g. Glastonbury
Sense of place
Place meaning
Emotional and subjective attachment someone has with a place.
e.g. somewhere someone goes on holiday to every year.
Place attachment
Emotional bond between a person and a place.
Perception of place
The way a place is viewed by people
Influenced by personal experience or media
e.g. insiders- different view than outsiders
Place making
Place making movement
Shaping environment for the community’s needs e.g. more green spaces
Movement emphasising aspects of a person (identity, belonging etc) in importance of place
Identity
Characteristics that a place is associated with.
Out of place
To feel as though you don’t belong in a place.
Due to factors such as social exclusion.
e.g. outsiders may feel out of place.
Insiders
People who feel comfortable and safe in a place.
e.g. if someone grew up somewhere they may feel like an insider there.
Outsiders
People who don’t feel like they belong in a place.
e.g. immigrants coming into the UK.
Belonging
To be part of a community
In place
To identify with a place and feel like you belong there.
e.g. an insider may feel in place.
Nimbiyism
Someone who resists unwanted development in their area.
e.g. fracking in North Yorkshire
Far/distant place
A place unfamiliar to a certain person.
e.g. Hanmer springs- geographically far away but has similar characteristics.
Near place
Place a person may have an emotional connection to or feel comfortable within that place so it feels close to them.
e.g. Harehills- geographically near but completely different to Harrogate.
Agents of place
People who impact a place through living, working or trying to improve that place.
Endogenous factor
Local demographic characteristics and physical geography of a place originated within it.
Exogenous factor
External factors that affect the relationship one place may have to other places.
e.g. migration of people into an area.
Meaning
Individual or collective perceptions of a place.
Representation
How a place is portrayed in society
e.g. cities negatively portrayed due to pollution etc.
First space representation
Attempting to understand a place by quantitative analysis
What’s physically present and measurable
e.g. demographic data
Second space representations
Subjective accounts of personal experience.
Third space representations
Considering quantitative and qualitative data.
Place marketing
Application of branding and sales strategies to a place
e.g. Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset.
Re-imaging place
Changing the reputation of a place through specific improvements.
e.g. Liverpool- poverty and unemployment to Tate art gallery and physical regeneration.
Rebranding place
Developing a place to change its image and people’s views of it.
e.g. The London Docklands
Glasgow- crowdsourcing and a social media campaign.
Regeneration
Transforming the economy of a place that has experienced decline.
Clone town
Urban retail areas dominated by national and international chain stores.
e.g. Cambridge Street, Harrogate.
Homogenised places
Place where people and products have become the same.
Stakeholders
Organisations or people who have an interest in a project.
Corporate body
A group of people or an organisation that operates under a single name.
e.g. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority- vintage style posters.
Crowdsourcing
Gaining information or input into a large number of people.
e.g. rebranding of Glasgow used crowdsourcing.
Objective
Something based on facts.
Subjective
Something based on personal feelings
Qualitative data
Descriptive data not using numbers
e.g. photos, interviews.
Quantitative data
Statistical data using numbers and measurements.
e.g. surveys
Experienced place
A place someone has spent time in.
Media place
A place a person has only seen on TV or read about.
e.g. Emmerdale.
Globalism
A global sense of place
Localisation
To focus on a ‘local’ place by promoting local goods and services
Glocalisation
Multinational companies adapting to the local marketplace
Localism
An affection or sense of ownership of a particular place
Regionalism
Consciousness of (and loyalty to) a distinct region with a population that are similar
Nationalism
A sense of national consciousness created from people’s devotion and loyalty to a nation
Rural-idyll
The idealised view that rural areas are calm, peaceful and stress-free
Forces of change
The force is a noun (person/organisation/corporate body). How it is achieved is the process is a verb e.g. voting, investing, rebranding, reinventing, redevelopment and place meaning.
