Changing Places Flashcards
What is the concept of place in Geography?
Place is location plus meaning - a specific location with unique physical, cultural and social attributes
What does the concept of placelessness refer to?
Placelessness refers to a location lacking uniqueness and carrying the same meanings as other locations
Name three aspects of the importance of place in human life and experience.
Three from:
- Identity
- Cultural significance
- Social interaction
- Economic activities
- Environmental interactions
- Sense of security
- cultural diversity
In what ways are places important for social interaction?
Places are where people gather, work, relax and build relationships: they are where communities connect
Name two factors which might influence people’s sense of security and peace of mind about a place?
Two from:
- Crime rates
- Natural disaster risk
- The availability of emergency services
Why might a place have cultural significance?
A place could be associated with an important event or a tradition
Location often affects access to resources, markets and infrastructure. What category of importance would these aspects of a place fit with?
Economic importance of place
What is an insider perspective on a place?
An insider perspective comes from someone who lives in the place and has direct experience of it
What is an outsider perspective on a place?
An outsider perspective may come from someone visiting or media representations and may indicate feeling excluded or unwelcome
What distinguishes experienced places from media places?
Experienced places are those visited or lived in, providing a deeper understanding, while media places are known only through media representations
What are exogenous factors?
Factors that originate externally
What are endogenous factors?
Factors that originate internally
Is topography an exogenous or endogenous factors?
Endogenous
Are demographic characteristic exogenous factors?
Endogenous
Is migration to a place exogenous or endogenous?
Endogenous
Name two ways in which relationships and connections with other places can be drivers of changes in a place.
Two from:
- Cultural exchange
- Economic development
- Social dynamics
- Globalisation
name two changes in place that can result from economic changes.
Two from:
- Change in levels of employment
- In the balance of sectors of employment
- In disposable income
- In income differentials
- In access to services
What does Yi-Fu Tuan suggest influences how place meanings are formed?
A person’s position in society
How are everyday place meanings deepened over time?
Through active engagements with local place
An OS map of a place or census data about a place are examples of what type of representation?
Formal represeantation
Define rebranding of a place.
Changing or influencing the image or perception of a place to highlight what makes it more attractive or appalling, usually for economic or social objectives
Define reimagining of a place
Creating new place meanings by the rethinking of place functions, meanings and purposes
Are paintings, oral sources and audio-media qualitative or quantitative sources for place?
Qualitative
Suggest two limitations of census records as a source for place studied.
Two from:
- Statistics can be manipulated
- They can give a skewed perspective if only a narrow rage of results is viewed
- Not everyone completes the census
