Changing places Flashcards
What is a location?
A place on a map, e.g the grid reference.
What is a locale?
A particular event or thing associated with a place. E.g Stratford and Shakespeare
What is a sense of place?
The emotional attachment to a place
What is the tourist gaze?
When tourists visit a place to get an ‘authentic’ local experience.
Why can tourist gaze be a bad thing?
If people just expect stereotypes and do not respect local cultures.
What are death sites or dark tourism?
Places where people are attracted by the history which often involves a tragic event
What is an insider?
The perspective of someone who knows a place well and is familiar with its wha of life. They feel welcome.
What is an outsider?
Someone who does not know a place well, or someone who is marginalised from the community. They feel unwelcome.
What are some factors that makes a place ‘unique’?
- Culture, e.g festivals
- Physical aspects, e.g lakes, mountains.
- Landmarks
- Historical significance, e,g buildings
What are endogenous factors?
Things that originate internally to an area
What are exogenous factors?
External in origin. E.g migrants moving to the area and burning new culture
What is character?
The physical and human factors that make it unique.
What are some examples of endogenous factors?
- The relief of the land.
- Local sports club
- Ageing population
- River meander
- Fertile soil
- Parks and woodlands
What are some examples of exogenous factors.
- Factory closure and jobs moving to china.
- Immigration from Poland.
- Purchase of second holiday homes
- Investment by multinational companies.
What is function?
Most settlements when they first started to grow had only one distinct function, and others changed as the towns grew
Examples of functions
- Port
- Education
- Religious
- Market town
- Natural resources
What are experienced places?
Places we have actually visited and are familiar with
What are media place?
Places we only know through watching films, TV etc..
What is a clone town?
A town or city where many of the shops are the same
What does homogenised mean?
When everything is the same. Means many towns have the same shops, etc
What is Placelessness?
When a place lacks a unique character. When town centres have no local independent shops and only chains.
What factors change a places character?
- Migration (leads to a more diverse population)
- Tourism
What is globalisation?
The way which businesses, people, technology and ideas are becoming connected around the world.
What is glocalisation?
When TNCs which operate around the world have to adapt to the local culture.
What is diaspora?
The spread of a group of people from their original homeland
