changing places Flashcards
What is a place?
a location created by human experinces
What is a space?
a location which has no social connections for a human being
what is placelessness?
the idea that a particu;ar landscape could be anywhere e.g an airport lounge
who created the concept of placelessness?
Edward Relph
What three concepts make up John Agnews theory of concept of place?
location- where it is
locale-people,culture and customs
sense of place- emotional attatchment
Descriptive approach to place?
the world is a set of places
What is the social constructionsit approach?
sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes
what geographers surrport the social comstructionist approach to palce?
Doreen Massey
Jon Anderson
What is the phenemological approach to place?
How an individual experiences a place
What geographers support the phenominological approach?
Tuan
Edward Relph
Factors that affect our attachgment to a place
community
culture
Religion
Gender
Age
what is yi fu tuans baby analogy?
Our attatchment to a place expands with age.
it is influenced by the quality or intensity of a place.
Topophillia
like of a place
Topophobia
Dislike of a place
What are the three aspects that asses the importance of place?
identity
belonging
well-being
What is localism?
an affection for an emotional ownership of a particular place
What is regionalism?
consciousness and alliegence to a particular place
What is nationalism?
Loyalty and devotion to a nation
What does john montgomerys sense of place invlove?
Physical setting
meaning
Activity
What is an insider?
someone that feels famillair and welcome in a particular place
What is an example of an insider?
People who have lived in the same area their whole life
What is an outsider?
Someone who feels excluded. not yet connected, feel like they dont belong
What is an example of an outsider?
an immigrant family that have moved to new area where they may not speak the language or understand the customs
What did Edward Relph say about insiders and outsiders?
to be inside a place is to belong to it and identify with it and the more profoundly inside you are the stronger is the identity with the place
What factors contribute to being an outsider?
socially, culturally , politically, economically
What did Tim Creswell say?
Activities and events are linked to a certain place when these links are broken or deemed to have committed a crime they are made to feel as though they are an outsider
spatial aspects
certain areas being excluded from society. can be due to lack of investment in an area or by the government
Diapora
Dispersion or spread of people from their original homeland
what are exogenous factors
external factors that impact the charcater of a place
what are some examples of exogenous factors
-people
-money
-resoruces
-investment
-ideas
what is an endogenous factor
internal factors that influence the charcater of a place
what are some examples of endogenous factors
-topography
-land use
-physical geog ( RIVERS)
-infastructure
-demographics
-built enviroment
-location
- economic charcateristcs
What can exogenous factors also be reffered to as?
shifting flows
what are the categories of place
-near
-far
-experienced
-media
what is a near place
a place which is close to us although it can be subjective, e.g your school
what is a far place?
a place that is geophorically far, although it could be an emotional distance
what is an experienced place?
places that have been visited and created an emotional attachment to, however an experineced place can link to media places as some experinced places become experienced due to media
what is a media place?
places that we have not visited,although we have lernt about through media representations
news. tv. film
what is genuis loci?
the spirit of a place, it says that every place has a spirit of its own made up of past experiences
What is an example of place marketing?
Amsterdam, the creation of IAMSTRRDAM
What is rebranding?
What is re imaging
Changing a previous poor image of a place into a new and improved one, creating a new image and representation for the area
What are the three types of external forces
Global institutions
Government policies
Local community groups
How do global institutions impact place and what are some examples
The IMF and world bank ,
TNCs can control the employment of an areas such as in Detroit, deindustrialiation
How do government policies impact place and examples
The Olympic park and enterprise zones such as Manchester with the bbc, increase employment and change the demographics of place
How do local community groups impact place?
They may focus on a particular movement, create a sense of community (insiders), specific ideas and events linked to the place
What is a top down approach
The approach to improving a place starting from government intervention, such as the investment into deprived areas such as Manchester
what is locale?
the behaviour or the societal norms in a certan area,linking to everyday activities
What are examples of informal representation of place?
Newspapers
Photos
Songs
Poems
Tv/film
Graffiti
What are examples of formal representations of place?
Statistics/ census data
Population data
IMD ( deprivation)
Polices uk (crime)
Cartography
GIS
What is place marketing
Branding and sales of an area in order to make it appealing, encouraging tourism and industry
What is rebranding?
Redeveloping and remarketting a place so that it develops a new identity, such as Stratford
What is a bottom up approach
The improvement of an area starting with the local people such as community groups or activists
What did Doreen Massey say about globalisation of place, where did she use as an example?
Kilburn high road
