Changing Places

Question 1

Location definition

Answer 1

Physical point where an area is found

Question 2

Place definition

Answer 2

A location with different meaning to different people

Question 3

Locale definition

Answer 3

Places where things happen, focal point for community activity

Question 4

Sense of Place definition

Answer 4

Emotional, subjective approach to viewing a place usually shaped by experience

Question 5

Placelessness

Answer 5

Increasingly common

Places are not unique due to globalisation and chain stores

Leads to ‘clone town’ phenomena

Question 6

Place attachment

Answer 6

Yi-Fu Tuan ‘attachment grows stronger over time’ with growing experiences

Topophilia (love of a place)

Topophobia (fear of a place)

Question 7

Near Place

Answer 7

Geographically close, subjective to a certain extent (what is near in US may be far in UK)

Question 8

Far Place

Answer 8

Distant places

Far away physically but emotionally close ‘homesick’

Question 9

Experienced Place

Answer 9

Places that you have visited, some argue places must be experienced to form attachments

Question 10

Media Place

Answer 10

Places experienced through media coverage, e.g New York

Question 11

Genius Loci

Answer 11

Spirit of a place, suggests that each place has a unique spirit

Question 12

Place Character

Answer 12

Shaped by a multitude of exogenous and endogenous factors,

Makes a place unique

Question 13

Exogenous factors

Answer 13

Originate from outside a place e.g flows of people, ideas, money etc

Question 14

Endogenous Factors

Answer 14

Originate from within a place

Topography

Land Use

Physical Geography

Infrastructure

Built Environment

Demographic Charcteristics

Question 15

Perspectives of a Place

Answer 15

Outsiders vs Insiders

May change due to migration,

Question 16

Gentrification

Answer 16

Rennovating and Improving an area to suit a middle-class demographic, can cause insiders to feel like outsiders over time

Question 17

Regeneration

Answer 17

Can cause feeling of outsiders

Changes place character

Investment in new facilities, rennovating old spaces

e.g Quay Side

Question 18

Who creates place meanings?

Answer 18

TNC

Government

Councils

Individuals

Question 19

Rebranding

Answer 19

Attempts to change place meaning, could be to encourage tourism

Involves;

Campaigns
Regeneration

Question 20

Byker

Answer 20

Mid 1960’s Newcastle council decided to renovate Byker, originally a victorian terrace housing estate,

1953, 1200 homes unfit for human inhabitance but 80% wanted to stay

Byker Wall, work stated 1970 with goal to cut down traffic noise, refurbished 2013-15

Issues with gambling shops, pawnbrokers, crime and anti social behavior such as public drunkenness

Question 21

Killingworth

Answer 21

Built in 1960’s next to Killingworth Village which dates to 1200’s

History of Coal Mining

1960’s construction intended for 20,000 people undertaken by Northumberland council

Radical Brutalistic building style winning awards for architecture

Killy Towers build 1970’s, goal to encourage community interaction but failed, absolutely trashed by community, demolished 1987