Changing Places Key Termns

Question 1

Location

Answer 1

A point in space with specific links to other points in space

Question 2

Locale

Answer 2

Setting where built and social interconnect

Question 3

Sense of place

Answer 3

Subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place

Question 4

Endogenous

Answer 4

Factors affecting the characters of a place from inside

Question 5

Exogenous

Answer 5

Factors affecting the characters of a place from outside

Question 6

Media place

Answer 6

The virtual world, which undermines the traditional relationship between the physical and social setting

Question 7

Private place

Answer 7

Places which are experienced and with which people have specific attachments

Question 8

Experienced place

Answer 8

A place that is known and has been visited

Question 9

Public place

Answer 9

Places which are connected to natural history, art or state of power

Question 10

Insiders

Answer 10

The people who live in a place

Question 11

Outsiders

Answer 11

The people who visit a place

Question 12

Near place

Answer 12

Places we visit regularly

Question 13

Far place

Answer 13

Global in scale and include both physical and virtual places

Question 14

Place

Answer 14

Locations with meaning

Question 15

Placelessness

Answer 15

The idea that a particular landscape, such as an airport, “could be anywhere” because it lack uniqueness

Question 16

Tophilia

Answer 16

A strong attachment to a place

Question 17

Topophobia

Answer 17

A dread or adverse reaction to a place

Question 18

Gesellschaft

Answer 18

Ever changing life of the large cosmopolitan, commercial city

Question 19

Gemeinschaft

Answer 19

Unchanging peasant society, organised in small inward looking, idyllic communities, based on kindship

Question 20

Dialect

Answer 20

A form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group

Question 21

Accent

Answer 21

They way in which people in a particular area, country or social group pronounce words

Question 22

Meaning

Answer 22

Relates to people’s perception of a place

Question 23

Representation

Answer 23

How a place is portrayed or seen in society

Question 24

place meaning- 911 memorial, New York

Answer 24

Tourists like to view the site as a place that is for people to remember what happened, but to someone who may know the victims may find it a bit insensitive for it to be a place that anyone an visit and get gifts from the shop, they may view it as making a mockery out of people who lost their life.

Question 25

what contributes towards perception of a place

Answer 25

your own experience, family or friend experience, social media, what’s said in the news, word of mouth

Question 26

field of care- Yi-Fu-Tuan

Answer 26

‘affective bond between people, and place or setting’. May not be easily understood by visitors

Question 27

the character of a place is shaped by

Answer 27

physical geography as well as demographic and economic factors

Question 28

forces of change in the place- making process

Answer 28

TNCs, individuals, local community groups, national government, international institutions (group of countries), local governments, national institutions, global institutions (everyone)

Question 29

TNC and national government force of change: Scunthorpe

Answer 29

Tata Steel- lost 900 jobs, more than 4000 steel jobs at risk across Britain, steel will have to be imported from abroad (where prices are cheaper and their steel industry is protected) its been there for over 50 years.
the public made their support clear by marching down the town busy high street.
the government are the only people with power to change the situation.
if the national government stepped in and protected the use of British steel, this would make a positive impact on the Scunthorpe and other Tata steel sites across the country, as demand would increase, which can lead to the creation of new jobs, as more output would need t be produced. If gov. didn’t do this there would be a loss of 900 jobs.
The company was sold to British Steel in April 2016 for £1, and it was renamed British Steel Ltd. To save jobs, some mills were closed, losing 490 jobs. However in 2017 the company returned to profit, with new investment in railways and a £50m investment to upgrade the mills.

Question 30

Trafalgar square- a national place

Answer 30

national gallery- built in 1838 to house 38 pictures by John Angerstein, bought it for £57 000 to rival other galleries.
first deliberately planned public square in London. evolved between 1830 and 1860.
Trafalgar square has been used for protests, as it’s busy and draws attention to protestors
Nelson’s column- built between 1840 and 1844. Admiral Nelson famously defeated the forces of Napoleonic France and Bourbon in Spain in 1805.
Admiralty arch- commissioned by British government in memory of Queen Victoria.