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Changing Places Glossary Flashcards

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Place

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More than its physical location, it’s a space given meaning by people

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Placelessness

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A place that lacks uniqueness, could be anywhere e.g. an airport

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Tourist gaze

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Something that attracts tourists e.g. Betty’s Tea Rooms

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Location

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Where a place is on a map, it’s latitude and longitude

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Locale

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Something you associate with a place

Harrogate locale:
Betty’s Tea Rooms
Valley gardens
Pump Rooms

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Sense of place

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Personal and emotional attachment to a place through experience

E.g. Harrogate as it’s where I’ve grown up

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Place meaning

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Personal and emotional attachment to a place through experience

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Place making movement

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Places great emphasis on identity, belonging and well-being

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Perception of place

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Developed through what people have heard, seen or read about a place that they may not have been

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Place making

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

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Descriptive approach

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

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Social constructionist approach

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Sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time

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Phenomenological approach

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How an individual experiences place

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Identity

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The meaning we give to a location is so strong that it features as a part of our identity

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Out of place

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A feeling of not being ‘normal’ , not fitting in , in the context of a particular society or locale

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Insiders

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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

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Positionally

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Gender, age, race, social status, economic status, and marital status

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Belonging

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Being part of the community

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Outsiders

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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

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Spatial exclusion

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The disconnection between social interaction with other people or the society, caused by spatial and temporal constraints

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Nimbyism

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‘Not in my backyard’- people objecting to something as it’s close to them

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Far place

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  1. 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

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Near place

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  1. 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

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Genius loci

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A term used by planners to describe the key characteristics of a place, with which any new developments must occur

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Dialect

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A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a place, region or social group

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Agents of place

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People who impact on a place whether through living, working or trying to improve a place

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Residents
Community groups
Corporate entitles
Central and local gov
Media
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Endogenous factor

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Local demographic characteristics and the physical geography of a place

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Exogenous factor

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The relationships of one place with other places and the external factors which affect this

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Social housing

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Housing provided for people on low incomes or with particular needs by government agencies or non-profit organisations

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Representation

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How a place is portraye or ‘seen’ in society

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First space representations

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An attempt to understand a place in terms of quantitative analysis, looking at what is physically present in a place

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Second space representations

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Subjective accounts of personal experience and capture a sense of place in a way that firstpace accounts can’t

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Third space representations

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We build a rich image of what a place is like and how it is experienced and perceived

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Qualitative data

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Data that is subjective

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Quantitative data

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Data that is objective

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Place marketing

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To create positive perceptions of a place

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Re imaging place

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Changing how a place is ‘seen’

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Rebranding place

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Used to discard negative perceptions of a place e.g 2013- Poeple make Glasgow

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Regeneration

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Making a place more appealing e.g. Llandudno

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Clone town

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A town where it’s dominated by chain stores

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Homogenised places

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A place that resembles another place

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Stakeholders

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A person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business

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Corporate body

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A legal entity identified by a particular name elf, an association, company, person, government, government agency or institution e.g. Conwy County Council

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Heritage tourism

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Traveling to experience the places, artefacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past

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Place meaning

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Subjective and emotional attachment to a place

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“Topophilia”

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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

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Extension: Orientalism

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Style or traits considered characteristic of the people and cultures of a place

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Social exclusion

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When an individual is out of place dipute to aspects like language barriers and conforming to local norms

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Reliability

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How accurate sources are from another’s perception

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Provenance

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The place of origin of something

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Textual analysis

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A way for researchers to gather info about how other people make sense of the world - cultures

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“Big Data”

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Big in terms of scale and it requires huge amounts of servers- volume, velocity, digital footprint

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Bio mapping

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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

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Crowd sourcing

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Asking the public and around the world for their opinion e.g. Glasgow 42 countries

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Geospatial data

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Info about a physical object that can be represented by numerical values (address, city, postcode)

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Census

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Systematically acquiring and recording info about the members of a given population

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Deprivation

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The lack or denial of care for an area, a deprived area

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Multiple deprivation

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Different types of deprivation (lack of education, poor health, high crime levels, high unemployment) are combined into one overall measure of deprivation

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Objective

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Based on quantitative data

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Subjective

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Based on qualitative data

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Counter mapping

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A bottom up process by which people produce their own maps, informed by their own local knowledge and understanding of a place

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Localism

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An affection or emotional ownership of a particular place

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Regionalism

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Conscious of and loyalty to a distinct region with a population that shares similarities

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Nationalism

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Loyalty and devotion to a nation which creates a sense of national consciousness

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Globalism

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Geographical movements across national borders of people seeking employment, money, cultural values

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Localisation

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An affection for or emotional ownership of a particular place

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Globalisation

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Multinational companies are increasingly having to adapt to the local marketplace

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Experienced place

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Those places people have spent time in

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Media place

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Places those have only read about or seen on TV or in film

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Information Age

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Historic period characterised by the rapid shift from traditional industry to an economy based on technology

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Cartography

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The science or practice of drawing maps

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Statistics

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Mathematics dealing with data collection, analysis interpretation and presentation of results

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Target audience

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A particular group at which product such as survey it aimed at

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