Changing Places key words

Question 1

Place

Answer 1

Space with meaning

Question 2

Locale

Answer 2

Place where something happened/associated with certain events

Question 3

Social constructionist approach

Answer 3

Sees a place linked to social processes and history

Question 4

Location

Answer 4

Where a place is, latitude and longitude

Question 5

Phenomenological approach

Answer 5

Sees a place through the eyes on an individual

Question 6

Descriptive approach

Answer 6

World is a set of distinct places

Question 7

Perception of place

Answer 7

The way it’s viewed

Question 8

Placemaking

Answer 8

Deliberate shaping of the environment to improve quality of life

Question 9

Sense of place

Answer 9

Subjective/emotional attachment people have to a place

Question 10

Globalisation

Answer 10

The way the world has become interconnected

Question 11

Glocalisation

Answer 11

Multinational companies adapt to the local market

Question 12

Placelessness

Answer 12

Place loses its original identity

Question 13

Homogenisation

Answer 13

Places become the same

Question 14

Wellbeing

Answer 14

How a place promotes happiness

Question 15

Belonging

Answer 15

To be a part of a places community (insider/outsider)

Question 16

Positionality

Answer 16

Gender, race, religion - factors that can influence people’s perception

Question 17

Identity

Answer 17

Place is critical to the construction of identity

Question 18

Near place

Answer 18

Geographically close/a place that is important to someone

Question 19

Far place

Answer 19

Geographically far/ a place that is irrelevant

Question 20

Media place

Answer 20

Only experienced through media or fictional place

Question 21

Experienced place

Answer 21

Place someone has had first-hand experience

Question 22

Place memory

Answer 22

The ability to make the past come to life in the present

Question 23

Perception

Answer 23

What people have heard about a place

Question 24

Reimaging

Answer 24

Tries to disassociate a place with a bad image

Question 25

Rebranding

Answer 25

The way a place is redeveloped and marketed to gain a new identity

Question 26

Regeneration

Answer 26

Long term process involving redevelopment to reverse urban decline and create sustainable communities

Question 27

Continuity

Answer 27

Things stay the same

Question 28

Endogenous factors

Answer 28

Factors from inside a location

Question 29

Exogenous factors

Answer 29

Outsider factors/influences

Question 30

Topography

Answer 30

Shape of the land

Question 31

Demography

Answer 31

Population and type of people

Question 32

Qualitative data

Answer 32

Rich, in-depth data eg. opinions, hard to analyse

Question 33

Quantitative data

Answer 33

Specific, statistics, easier to measure and analyse