Changing Places Full FC Flashcards
Accessibility
How easy it is to travel to a place or interact with an individual.
Analyse
Break down the content of a topic, or issue, into its constituent elements in order to provide an in-depth account and convey an understanding of it.
Attachment
A sense of binding to a particular location due to positive and intense experiences.
Built Environment
The buildings and infrastructure within an urban area.
Capital
Productive assets, goods or financial stakes.
Character
The physical and human geographic features that distinguish a particular place and make it unique. Physical geographic factors include climate, topography and physical features e.g. rivers. Human geographic factors include the land use, built environment and demographic and cultural features.
Commuter
An individual who regularly travels a distance between their residence and their employment.
Conflict
A state of disagreement caused by the perceived or actual opposition of needs, values and interests between people. Geographically, it is often about opposing views about the ways in which a place may be developed or used. The result is negative tension between the parties involved.
Cultural characteristics
To do with how people live their lives e.g. the foods, customs, clothing, traditions, language, art and values people have in a place.
Cultural Enrichment
The addition of ideas, traditions and beliefs due to the arrival of new people.
Culture
The way of life of a particular group of people at a particular time, generally customs and beliefs.
Demographic
The characteristics of a population.
Demographic characteristics
To do with who lives in a place and what they’re like. They include factors such as gender, education level, religion, birth rates and ethnicity.
Deprivation
Individuals lack basic services or objects they would expect to have in the 21st Century.
Diversity
Variation within a population, in their characteristics, background and behaviour.
Endogenous factor
The internal factors that shape a place’s character. These could be physical, e.g. its location, topography and physical geography, or they could be human e.g. the land use, built environment, infrastructure and demographic and economic characteristics.
Ethnic Clustering
Residential areas with similar cultures, ethnicity or religions. This may be to avoid isolation or to live locally to special services and facilities (places of worship, local shops, etc.)
Ethnicity
The cultural background of a group of people, often based on religion or country of origin.
Exogenous factor
The external factors which shape a place’s character, including the relationship or links to other places and the flows in and out of a place e.g. the flows of people, resources, money and ideas.
Experienced place
A place that someone has spent time in. When a person visits or lives in a place their experiences, such as the things they see and the people they meet, shape their sense of place.
Factor
One of the things that affects an event, decision, or situation. A cause.
Far place
A place that is either geographically far away or a place that is unfamiliar/uncomfortable to a person.
First space data
This means an attempt to understand a place in terms of quantitative analysis, looking at what is physically present in a place, and is empirically measurable (e.g. demographic data and socio-economic data)
Flow
A form of linkage between one component and another that usually involves the movement of people, ideas, money or resources.
Genius Loci
The ‘spirit’ of a place, based on its history, culture and daily atmosphere.
Gentrification
Renovation of older/deteriorating buildings or areas with the aim of attracting high-income individuals or elite businesses to a place.
Governance
The management of a place or group of people.
Idyll
A location with ideal living conditions and good qualities. Often based on a perception.
Inequality
Differences in income, well-being and wealth between individuals, communities and society.
Infrastructure
The basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively.
Insiders
People who feel like they are ‘part of’ a place; they feel included within the place and have a strong connection to it.
Internal Migration
The movement of people within a country.
Life Expectancy
The average number of years an individual is likely to live, determined at birth.
Lived Experience
The contribution of experiences and opportunities to an individual’s views and values.
Locale
The place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it. Unlike location, locale takes into account the effect that people have on their setting. In terms of locale, a place is shaped by the people, cultures and customs within it.
Location
A specifc point on the Earth’s surface. ‘Where’ a place is e.g. a place’s coordinates on a map.
Media
The publishing of information and production of entertainment (e.g. BBC, local newspapers, radio stations).
Media place
A place that someone has not been to, but have created a sense of place through their depiction in the media (e.g. books, art and film)
Multicultural
The existence, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single geographic area.
Near place
A place that is either geographically close or a place that you personally feel is welcoming and familiar.
Outsiders
People who feel like they are not ‘part of’ a place; they feel isolated and may not have a strong connection to the place.
Perception
The way in which a place is viewed or seen by people.
Place
A location with meaning. Geographers refer to three aspects of place: location, locale and sense of place.
Place making
The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life.
Place marketing
This is how places are ‘sold’ like products to consumers.
Place meaning
Individual or collective perceptions of place.
Placelessness
The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape.
Population Density
The number of people per square kilometre.
Positionality
A theory in which different people perceive places in different ways depending on certain factors such as gender, race, age, religion, socio-economic status.
Qualitative data
Information that is non-numerical and used in a relatively unstructured and open-ended way. It is based on opinion. It is descriptive information, which often comes from interviews, focus groups or artistic depictions such as photographs.
Quantitative data
Data that can be quantified and verified, and is amenable to statistical manipulation.
Re-imaging
This involves changing existing negative perceptions of places.
Rebranding
This involves giving a place a new identity that is appealing to people and investors.
Regeneration
This is a long-term process of development using social, economic and environmental action to reverse urban decline and create more sustainable communities.
Representation of place
How a place is portrayed or seen in society.
Second space data
These are subjective accounts of personal experience and capture a sense of place in a way that first space accounts cannot.
Segregation
The separation of a group from other groups this can be through force or voluntarily. Segregation can often occur due to housing strategies or regeneration projects.
Sense of place
The subjective feelings people have about places, including the role of place in their identity and group identity.
Social Clustering
Groups of people with similar background frequently living together.
Social Exclusion
The inability of a group of people to become involved in the cultural activities of a place.
Stakeholder
A person or group that have an interest in place, for example pre-existing residents, local businesses or potential investors.
Third space data
One of the most useful ways to understand a place is to consider both quantitative and qualitative data, or Third space representations. In this way we build a rich image of what a place is like and how it is experienced and perceived.
Urbanisation
An increase in the proportion of a population living within urban areas.
‘The Other’
People of different background or identity to an individual.
