CAT Test 2

Question 1

Place

Answer 1

A location that has been given meaning by an individual or people.
e.g. Harrogate

Question 2

Placelessness

Answer 2

Somewhere that has lost its individuality so it looks like other areas.
e.g. Airports

Question 3

Location

Answer 3

Where a place is on a map.
Latitude and longitude.
e.g. Leeds- 53.48 degrees North, 1.32 degrees West.

Question 4

Locale

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Sense of place

Place meaning

Answer 5

Emotional and subjective attachment someone has with a place.
e.g. somewhere someone goes on holiday to every year.

Question 6

Place attachment

Answer 6

Emotional bond between a person and a place.

Question 7

Perception of place

Answer 7

The way a place is viewed by people
Influenced by personal experience or media
e.g. insiders- different view than outsiders

Question 8

Place making

Place making movement

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Identity

Answer 9

Characteristics that a place is associated with.

Question 10

Out of place

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Insiders

Answer 11

People who feel comfortable and safe in a place.

e.g. if someone grew up somewhere they may feel like an insider there.

Question 12

Outsiders

Answer 12

People who don’t feel like they belong in a place.

e.g. immigrants coming into the UK.

Question 13

Belonging

Answer 13

To be part of a community

Question 14

In place

Answer 14

To identify with a place and feel like you belong there.

e.g. an insider may feel in place.

Question 15

Nimbiyism

Answer 15

Someone who resists unwanted development in their area.

e.g. fracking in North Yorkshire

Question 16

Far/distant place

Answer 16

A place unfamiliar to a certain person.

e.g. Hanmer springs- geographically far away but has similar characteristics.

Question 17

Near place

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

Agents of place

Answer 18

People who impact a place through living, working or trying to improve that place.

Question 19

Endogenous factor

Answer 19

Local demographic characteristics and physical geography of a place originated within it.

Question 20

Exogenous factor

Answer 20

External factors that affect the relationship one place may have to other places.
e.g. migration of people into an area.

Question 21

Meaning

Answer 21

Individual or collective perceptions of a place.

Question 22

Representation

Answer 22

How a place is portrayed in society

e.g. cities negatively portrayed due to pollution etc.

Question 23

First space representation

Answer 23

Attempting to understand a place by quantitative analysis
What’s physically present and measurable
e.g. demographic data

Question 24

Second space representations

Answer 24

Subjective accounts of personal experience.

Question 25

Third space representations

Answer 25

Considering quantitative and qualitative data.

Question 26

Place marketing

Answer 26

Application of branding and sales strategies to a place

e.g. Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset.

Question 27

Re-imaging place

Answer 27

Changing the reputation of a place through specific improvements.
e.g. Liverpool- poverty and unemployment to Tate art gallery and physical regeneration.

Question 28

Rebranding place

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

Regeneration

Answer 29

Transforming the economy of a place that has experienced decline.

Question 30

Clone town

Answer 30

Urban retail areas dominated by national and international chain stores.
e.g. Cambridge Street, Harrogate.

Question 31

Homogenised places

Answer 31

Place where people and products have become the same.

Question 32

Stakeholders

Answer 32

Organisations or people who have an interest in a project.

Question 33

Corporate body

Answer 33

A group of people or an organisation that operates under a single name.
e.g. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority- vintage style posters.

Question 34

Crowdsourcing

Answer 34

Gaining information or input into a large number of people.

e.g. rebranding of Glasgow used crowdsourcing.

Question 35

Objective

Answer 35

Something based on facts.

Question 36

Subjective

Answer 36

Something based on personal feelings

Question 37

Qualitative data

Answer 37

Descriptive data not using numbers

e.g. photos, interviews.

Question 38

Quantitative data

Answer 38

Statistical data using numbers and measurements.

e.g. surveys

Question 39

Experienced place

Answer 39

A place someone has spent time in.

Question 40

Media place

Answer 40

A place a person has only seen on TV or read about.

e.g. Emmerdale.

Question 41

Globalism

Answer 41

A global sense of place

Question 42

Localisation

Answer 42

To focus on a ‘local’ place by promoting local goods and services

Question 43

Glocalisation

Answer 43

Multinational companies adapting to the local marketplace

Question 44

Localism

Answer 44

An affection or sense of ownership of a particular place

Question 45

Regionalism

Answer 45

Consciousness of (and loyalty to) a distinct region with a population that are similar

Question 46

Nationalism

Answer 46

A sense of national consciousness created from people’s devotion and loyalty to a nation

Question 47

Rural-idyll

Answer 47

The idealised view that rural areas are calm, peaceful and stress-free

Question 48

Forces of change

Answer 48

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.