Changing Places Flashcards
Location definition
Physical point where an area is found
Place definition
A location with different meaning to different people
Locale definition
Places where things happen, focal point for community activity
Sense of Place definition
Emotional, subjective approach to viewing a place usually shaped by experience
Placelessness
Increasingly common
Places are not unique due to globalisation and chain stores
Leads to ‘clone town’ phenomena
Place attachment
Yi-Fu Tuan ‘attachment grows stronger over time’ with growing experiences
Topophilia (love of a place)
Topophobia (fear of a place)
Near Place
Geographically close, subjective to a certain extent (what is near in US may be far in UK)
Far Place
Distant places
Far away physically but emotionally close ‘homesick’
Experienced Place
Places that you have visited, some argue places must be experienced to form attachments
Media Place
Places experienced through media coverage, e.g New York
Genius Loci
Spirit of a place, suggests that each place has a unique spirit
Place Character
Shaped by a multitude of exogenous and endogenous factors,
Makes a place unique
Exogenous factors
Originate from outside a place e.g flows of people, ideas, money etc
Endogenous Factors
Originate from within a place
Topography
Land Use
Physical Geography
Infrastructure
Built Environment
Demographic Charcteristics
Perspectives of a Place
Outsiders vs Insiders
May change due to migration,
Gentrification
Rennovating and Improving an area to suit a middle-class demographic, can cause insiders to feel like outsiders over time
Regeneration
Can cause feeling of outsiders
Changes place character
Investment in new facilities, rennovating old spaces
e.g Quay Side
Who creates place meanings?
TNC
Government
Councils
Individuals
Rebranding
Attempts to change place meaning, could be to encourage tourism
Involves;
Campaigns
Regeneration
Byker
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
Killingworth
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
