Changing Places Key words Flashcards
Endogenous factors:
place making factors that originate internally. These could be physical (location, topography, physical geography) or human (infrastructure, pre-existing demographic and economic characteristics, land use and the built environment.
Exogenous Factors:
place making factors that originate externally including links with and influences from other places, these relationships may include the movement or flow of different things across space such as people resources, money investment and ideas.
Media place:
places that people have not been to, but have created a sense of place through their depiction in media (books, art, films etc.). This often doesn’t reflect reality as often presents place in a particular way for a particular purpose.
Geospatial
any data that is tied to its location - latitude and longitude coordinates can show change across a place.
Insider perspective:
someone who feels welcome in a place - often have lived experience
Positionally
factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, religion, politics and socio-economic status which influence how we perceive different places.
Rebranding
giving a place a new identity that is appealing to people and investors. It is achieved through reimagining, place marketing and regeneration schemes. May involve slogans and logos - aiming to increase sales.
Re-imaging:
the cultural reinvention of places to change negative perceptions of an area - a makeover.
Placelessness:
the loss of the uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so one place looks like the next.
Clone Towns:
urban retail areas dominated by national or international chain stores.