Changing Places Key Terms - broken

Question 1

Place

Answer 1

SPACE = A PLACE WITH NO MEANING

Question 2

Place identity

Answer 2

Concerned with the meaning and significance of the place to the people who live

Question 3

Place meaning/sense of place

Answer 3

The subjective (personal) and emotional attachment to place. This is when place attachment occurs. This forms part of our own identity.

Question 4

Insiders

Answer 4

People who feel like they belong in a certain place and that is their home. The more

Question 5

Outsiders

Answer 5

People who feel out of place in a certain place and that they don’t belong.

Question 6

Endogenous factors

Answer 6

The internal factors that can shape a place. These can be physical geographical

Question 7

Exogenous factors

Answer 7

The external factors that can shape a place. These are generally the relations that a

Question 8

Experienced places

Answer 8

Places that we have visited and developed our own sense of place of.

Question 9

Media places

Answer 9

Places that we have formed a perception of based on what we have seen in the

Question 10

Near places

Answer 10

Places that feel familiar/like home, where people live in a similar way that we do.

Question 11

Far places

Answer 11

Places we see as foreign, alien, exotic or different. There is a ‘them’ and ‘us’ division.

Question 12

Lived experience

Answer 12

Direct experience of a place from having spent time there.

Question 13

Genius loci

Answer 13

Architects are taught to think about the genius loci (spirit) of a place. This means

Question 14

Demographic

Answer 14

Relating to the population of a place.

Question 15

Cultural

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Relating to a particular group of people and their habits, beliefs, traditions, etc.

Question 16

Palimpsest

Answer 16

A place or landscape in which something new is superimposed over traces of

Question 17

Perception

Answer 17

The way in which we see or view different places.

Question 18

Place attachment

Answer 18

Links to place meaning/sense of place.

Question 19

Location

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Locale

Answer 20

Each place is made up of a series of locales where everyday life activities take place

Question 21

Placelessness

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The idea that a particular landscape ‘could be anywhere’ because it lacks unique

Question 22

Homogenised

Answer 22

When something is made uniform or similar.

Question 23

Clone town

Answer 23

The idea that towns are beginning to look identical and lose their place identity as

Question 24

Dislocation

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The sense of being ‘out of place’ which can come when we do not feel a sense of

Question 25

Topophilia

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A strong sense of place and a love of certain aspects of such a place. (Li Fu Tuan)

Question 26

Topophobia

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The fear or dread of certain places.

Question 27

Globalisation

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The increasing interconnection of the world’s economic, cultural and political

Question 28

Localisation

Answer 28

Places have become political symbols for fighting against global capitalism.

Question 29

Glocalisation

Answer 29

Glocalisation is a combination of the words “globalisation” and “localisation”, used