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Changing places Flashcards

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Agents of change

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The people who impact places, whether through living or working there or actively trying to change that place. E.g. residents, community groups, corporations, investors, central and local governments, media.

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Approach - descriptive

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The idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct

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Approach - humanistic

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Emphasises the study of the whole person, gives a central and active role to human awareness, agency and creativity

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Approach - phenomenological

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All emphasis when understanding places on how individuals experience it as it is a very personal relationship between people and places

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Approach - social constructionist

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Sees the meaning of places embedded in a particular set of social processes from a particular time

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Belonging to place

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Being a part of the community

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DIaspora

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A scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic locale

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Diversity

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When a range of activities take place temporally and spatially across a settlement. Larger settlements tend to be more diverse

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Doreen Massey

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Radical geographer, feminist, socialist who wrote a lot about space, place and power

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Endogenous factors

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Characteristics of a place that have origination internally or are inherent to its nature e.g. London’s topography or Bristol’s proximity to Wales are both inherent factors

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Ethnicity

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A social group that has common , cultural, ancestral, or linguistic features

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Exogenous factors

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Refers to the factors that shape places that are external or have external origin. These factors are the shifting flows of people, money, resources and investment

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Experienced places

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Places that a person has spent time in

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Genius loci

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Coined by Yi-Fu Tuan, which can describe the distinctive spirit of a place

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Geospatial data

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Informatia that identify the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on Earth, normally represented by points, lines, shapes.

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Global mobility

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Increased facility of movement through faster and cheaper transport, EU free movement style agreements. This has affected the socio-economic characteristics of their home country and those of their destination, helping to shape places in the modern world.

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Globalisation

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The increasing interconnectedness of places around the globe due to increased links in trade, transport, culture and politics. This involves increased flows of people, money, goods, food, culture, ideas.

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Homogenised

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When a places have become similar to one another

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Identity

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Places can easily influence the identity that an entity feels, be that regional, local, national…

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Insider perspectives

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Being inside a place is being part of the community or identifying with it. This is where NIMBYism comes from

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Inward orientation of place

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Concerned with how things, representations and practices gather together is places

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Locale

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This is the place where something happens or is set or has particular events associated with it

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Localisation

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A greater focus on the local place and the promotion of local goods and services, particularly as a response to global capitalism.

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Localism

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Affection or emotional connection to a particular place

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Location

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Where a place is, its unequivocal, unchangeable physical nature

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Material traces

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Physical additions to the environment, which include buildings, signs and statues

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Meaning

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Relates to individual or collective perceptions of place. This may change over time and vary between people.

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Media places

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Places that a person has read about or seen on film…

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Nationalism

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Loyalty and devotion to a nation, creating a sense or coming from a sense of national consciousness

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Non-material traces

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Events, performances or emotions which occur in a place

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Outsider perspectives

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When you are unable to identify with a place because you feel like an outsider or out of place

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Outward orientation of place

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Relating to connections, flows, openness. A progressive and gloabl sense of place e.g. London is open campaign by Sadiq Khan

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Paradigm

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A framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community. The prevailing ideas of a time.

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Perception of place

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The way that place is viewed by people. Often influenced by media and popular representation as well as personal experience

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Place image

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The image or perception of a locality

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Place marketing

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Marketing or PR companies may be employed by national and local governments to improve or create positive perceptions of places

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Place rebranding

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Discards negative perceptions of a place while giving it a new, more attractive face

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Place reimaging

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Linked to rebranding, reimaging seeks to discard negative perceptions of place and generate new ideas, feelings and attitudes towards that place

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Place representation - abstract

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When meaning is subtly suggested rather than clearly quoted. Any representation of the world is an abstracting and some are perceived to be less abstract than others e.g. a photo or map is less abstract than some art forms may be

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Place representation - formal

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Tend to be more objective, based on facts and include statistical data

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Place representation - informal

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Creative, selective and stylised representations through media such as art, tv, film, literature, advertising…

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Place

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A location with a meaning

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Placelessness/Non-place

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A term coined by Marc Augé, a French anthropologist, to refer to those places that have little or no individual meaning that could be anywhere and nowhere like an airport or a carpark or a clone town

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Placemaking

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The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life

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Positionality

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Refers to factos such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, religion, politics, socio-economic status. All of these affect how we see places

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Qualitative data

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Information that is non-numerical and is more descriptive

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Quantitative data

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Statistical data

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Race

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The biological and physical differences between people e.g. skin colour

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Regionalism

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Consciousness of a distinct region

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Representation

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How a place is portrayed and seen in society

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Sense of place/place attachment

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The subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place due to specific experiences of the specific person in the specific place

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Switched-off places

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Places that are poorly connected to other places

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Switched-on places

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Places that are strongly connected to other places through the consumption and productio of goods and services

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Topophilia

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The affective bond between people and place and according to Yi-Fu Tuan and Edward Relph it is the result of getting to know a place

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Urbanisation

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Increasing proportion of people living in urban areas. Economic development has a strong correlation with this process

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Wellbeing

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Being comfortable and happy.

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Vitality

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How busy or lively a place is

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