Changing Places Flashcards
What 4 things constitute a place?
- Location
- Physical characteristic of the landscape
- Human characteristics
- Sense of place
What is meant by a “sense of place”?
The emotional meaning attached to a place
What is a “locale”?
- Each place is made up by a series of locales where everyday activities take place e.g. an office, your home
- These locales help dictate our social interactions and help forge attitudes values and behaviours
What things can change?
- The physical environment
- Human characteristics
- Flows
- Sense of place
How can the physical characteristics of a place change?
- Climate Change
- Erosion
- Natural Disasters
- War
- Famine
How can the human characteristics of a place change?
- Immigration
- Emigration
- Land use
How can the human characteristics of a place change?
- Immigration
- Emigration
- Land use
How can flows change?
- Investment
- Development of ports
How can a sense of place change?
Gentrification
What is an insider?
Someone who is familiar with a place and who feels welcome
What is an outsider?
Someone who feels unwelcome or excluded from a place
Name 3 factors that may make someone feel like an insider or an outsider?
- Age
- Sexuality
- Gender
Name 3 factors that can make someone feel like an insider or an outsider
- Age
- Sexuality
- Gender
Give an example of how a person might feel like an outsider
An old person might feel like an outsider at a night club
What are the 3 theoretical approaches to a sense of place?
- A descriptive approach
- A social constructionist approach
- A phenomenological approach
What is a descriptive approach to a sense of place?
The idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct
What is a social constructionist approach to a sense of place?
Recognises a place as something that is shaped by the social constructs of a time e.g. Trafalgar Square was built to commemorate a British naval victory in the 1800s - using a social constructionist approach it could be understood as a place of empire and colonialism
What is a phenomenological approach to a sense of place?
The emotional attachment between an individual and a place recognising that every individual has a different attachment to a place
What is an experienced place?
- Places that people have physically spent time in
- When a person visits or lives in a place, their experience such as the people they meet and the things that they see shape their sense of place
- Once a place has been experienced it can no longer be a media place
What is a media place?
- A place that the individual has not been to, but have created a sense of place through their depiction in media (e.g. books, art and films)
- These depictions are usually extremely positive or extremely negative
- Media places can also be fictional places e.g. Hogwarts, which will never fall short of our expectations since we can never experience them
What is a near place?
- A place that is geographically near where you live
- You are more likely to feel like an insider here as you have an experienced sense of place
What is a far place?
- Distant from where you live
- More likely to feel like an outsider as you are less likely to have experienced the place and feel connected to it
What is meant by placelessness?
The essential destruction of individual sense of places, as globalisation has made distant places look and feel the same
What is topophilia?
Love of a place
What is topophobia?
Hate of a place
What are endogenous factors?
- The internal factors which shape a sense of place
- This could be physical e.g. location, topography, physical geography
- This could be human e.g. land use, built environments, demographics
What are exogenous factors?
- External factors that shape a sense of place
- The relationship with other places and flows in and out of a place e.g. people
Name the 4 exogenous factors that contribute to a sense of place?
- People - migrants or workers come from outside a place to live or work
- Capital - how investments from a business based outside of the place shape it
- Resources - how nearby raw materials and transport infrastructure shape a sense of place
- Ideas - how urban planners, architects, businesses and artists bring ideas to shape a sense of place
