Changing Places Glossary Flashcards
Place
More than its physical location, it’s a space given meaning by people
Placelessness
A place that lacks uniqueness, could be anywhere e.g. an airport
Tourist gaze
Something that attracts tourists e.g. Betty’s Tea Rooms
Location
Where a place is on a map, it’s latitude and longitude
Locale
Something you associate with a place
Harrogate locale:
Betty’s Tea Rooms
Valley gardens
Pump Rooms
Sense of place
Personal and emotional attachment to a place through experience
E.g. Harrogate as it’s where I’ve grown up
Place meaning
Personal and emotional attachment to a place through experience
Place making movement
Places great emphasis on identity, belonging and well-being
Perception of place
Developed through what people have heard, seen or read about a place that they may not have been
Place making
Deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life
Descriptive approach
Idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct
Social constructionist approach
Sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time
Phenomenological approach
How an individual experiences place
Identity
The meaning we give to a location is so strong that it features as a part of our identity
Out of place
A feeling of not being ‘normal’ , not fitting in , in the context of a particular society or locale
Insiders
Someone who feels safe, secure and ‘at home’ in a place; they understand the social norms of the society and feel included. They can play an active social and economic role in society
Positionally
Gender, age, race, social status, economic status, and marital status
Belonging
Being part of the community
Outsiders
Someone who feels homesick, alienated or excluded from society in a specific place; they may not be able to take an active role, e.g. in work or study as a result of socially constructed barriers
Spatial exclusion
The disconnection between social interaction with other people or the society, caused by spatial and temporal constraints
Nimbyism
‘Not in my backyard’- people objecting to something as it’s close to them
Far place
- Refers to geographical distance between two places
2. Could describe the emotional connection with a place and how comfortable a person feels within that place
Near place
- Refers to geographical distance between two places
2. Could describe the emotional connection with a place and how comfortable a person feels within that place
Genius loci
A term used by planners to describe the key characteristics of a place, with which any new developments must occur
Dialect
A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a place, region or social group
Agents of place
People who impact on a place whether through living, working or trying to improve a place
E.g. Residents Community groups Corporate entitles Central and local gov Media
Endogenous factor
Local demographic characteristics and the physical geography of a place
Exogenous factor
The relationships of one place with other places and the external factors which affect this
Social housing
Housing provided for people on low incomes or with particular needs by government agencies or non-profit organisations
Representation
How a place is portraye or ‘seen’ in society
First space representations
An attempt to understand a place in terms of quantitative analysis, looking at what is physically present in a place
Second space representations
Subjective accounts of personal experience and capture a sense of place in a way that firstpace accounts can’t
Third space representations
We build a rich image of what a place is like and how it is experienced and perceived
Qualitative data
Data that is subjective
Quantitative data
Data that is objective
Place marketing
To create positive perceptions of a place
Re imaging place
Changing how a place is ‘seen’
Rebranding place
Used to discard negative perceptions of a place e.g 2013- Poeple make Glasgow
Regeneration
Making a place more appealing e.g. Llandudno
Clone town
A town where it’s dominated by chain stores
Homogenised places
A place that resembles another place
Stakeholders
A person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business
Corporate body
A legal entity identified by a particular name elf, an association, company, person, government, government agency or institution e.g. Conwy County Council
Heritage tourism
Traveling to experience the places, artefacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past
Place meaning
Subjective and emotional attachment to a place
“Topophilia”
A strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place
Extension: Orientalism
Style or traits considered characteristic of the people and cultures of a place
Social exclusion
When an individual is out of place dipute to aspects like language barriers and conforming to local norms
Reliability
How accurate sources are from another’s perception
Provenance
The place of origin of something
Textual analysis
A way for researchers to gather info about how other people make sense of the world - cultures
“Big Data”
Big in terms of scale and it requires huge amounts of servers- volume, velocity, digital footprint
Bio mapping
A method trying to measure sense of place, mapping of emotions shown by people to certain places through the use of a device which records heart rate
Crowd sourcing
Asking the public and around the world for their opinion e.g. Glasgow 42 countries
Geospatial data
Info about a physical object that can be represented by numerical values (address, city, postcode)
Census
Systematically acquiring and recording info about the members of a given population
Deprivation
The lack or denial of care for an area, a deprived area
Multiple deprivation
Different types of deprivation (lack of education, poor health, high crime levels, high unemployment) are combined into one overall measure of deprivation
Objective
Based on quantitative data
Subjective
Based on qualitative data
Counter mapping
A bottom up process by which people produce their own maps, informed by their own local knowledge and understanding of a place
Localism
An affection or emotional ownership of a particular place
Regionalism
Conscious of and loyalty to a distinct region with a population that shares similarities
Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nation which creates a sense of national consciousness
Globalism
Geographical movements across national borders of people seeking employment, money, cultural values
Localisation
An affection for or emotional ownership of a particular place
Globalisation
Multinational companies are increasingly having to adapt to the local marketplace
Experienced place
Those places people have spent time in
Media place
Places those have only read about or seen on TV or in film
Information Age
Historic period characterised by the rapid shift from traditional industry to an economy based on technology
Cartography
The science or practice of drawing maps
Statistics
Mathematics dealing with data collection, analysis interpretation and presentation of results
Target audience
A particular group at which product such as survey it aimed at
