Changing Places Flashcards
Tourist Gaze
Governments and businesses mediating the experience of place for tourists by choosing what they see
Location
Place on a map, doesn’t give place identity
Locale
Setting where everyday life occurs (school, shops)
Sense of place
Personal and emotional attatchment to a place
Perception of place
How a place is viewed by people, influenced by media, opinions and experience
Insider
Someone who knows a place and people in that place
Outsider
Someone who doesn’t know a place well and is marginalizes in the group
Place
Geographical space with boundaries whose identity is distinctive
Site
Land a place is built on and where a place grows from
Function
What services and work a place provides
Placelessness
Where human landscapes lack distinctiveness and have little connection with geographical contexts
Clone town
Where major shopping areas are dominated by chain stores so all places seen the same
Endogenous
Influenced on a place that are of local origin
Exogenous
Influenced on a place that aren’t of local origin
Identity
Real or perceived characteristics that define a place, shape by people and processes
Representation of place
Means of communication by which people tell each other about places
Contested place
Place where tension has arisen because of disagreements on how it should be managed
Stereotypes
Incomplete idea of place, not all un true tho
Place remaking
Physical, economic, social and cultural changes caused by government led regeneration and gentrification
Community cohesion
Diverse people living in the same area that share similar feelings of identity and belonging
Character of a Place
Physical and human geographical features that distinguish a particular place
- How a place looks and feels
