Changing Places

Question 1

What is a place?

Answer 1

Location which has different meanings to various people.

Question 2

What is a locale?

Answer 2

Locations within a place associated with everyday activities. Locales structure social interactions and behavioral traits.

Question 3

What is sense of place?

Answer 3

Subjective emotional attachment to a place which gives it meaning. Different to everyone and is generally based on lived places.

Question 4

What is placelessness?

Answer 4

loss of uniqueness of place; localities look like the next. - Clone towns.

Question 5

What is place attachment?

Answer 5

A feeling binding a person with a place. Suggested to grow stronger over time as you have more experiences with the place.

Question 6

What are the categories of places?

Answer 6

Near places - close to us, subjective. People living in rural areas will view 100km closer than someone in dense urban areas.

Far places - DIstant, may have emotional meaning. Usually, but not always physically distant.

Experienced places - Places actually visited. Some argue you have to visit a place to create attachment.

Media places - Not visited, but seen / heard of from media. Can produce biased viewpoints.

Question 7

What is Genius Loci?

Answer 7

Spirit of the place’ - Suggests every place has unique spirit / atmosphere.

Question 8

What is the character of a place?

Answer 8

Specific qualities / features which make a place unique. - Endogenous and exogenous.

Question 9

What are Endogenous Factors? Name some.

Answer 9

Originate from within place - local.
- Land Use
Topography
Physical geography
Infrastructure
Demographics
Built environment
location
Economic characteristics.

Question 10

What are Exogenous Factors? Name some.

Answer 10

Originate from outside a place - link and relationships with other places. Often referred to as flows of:
- People
- Money and investment
- Resources
- Ideas

Question 11

How do different people have different perspectives of places?

Answer 11

Insiders - Feel at home within a place
- Born in / hold citizenship.
- Fluent in language / know local slang.

Outsiders - Don’t feel they belong.
- Culture or religion
- Shops and highstreets unfamiliar
- Architecture and vehicles different
- Little to no familiar food.

Feeling of unfamiliarity in outsiders can change over time.
Insiders can feel like outsiders if place changes from what they previously knew it to be. - Immigration, gentrification pushing out lower-middle class.

Question 12

What is ‘The Other’ ?

Answer 12

People unfamiliar or different to the self. Conflict and social tensions exist when people do not have the same identity.
- Racism and xenophobia lead to prejudice and segregation.