Changing Places - The nature and importance of places Flashcards
What is space?
A location with no meaning, no locale just location
What is place?
A location with meaning
What is outsider perspective?
The perspective of people who visit a place, sense of place more vague and abstract, view more about discovering a personal view of the location and draw from experiences of other places to understand observations.
What are endogenous factors?
Factors within a place that help shape its character - they are internal factors that occur entirely within a particular place, e.g. to do with its local geography
- These are local, internal characterises which create a places identity
What is topophillia?
A strong attachment to a place
What is topophobia?
A sense of dread or adverse reaction to a place, fear
What are exogenous factors?
Factors from outside a place that force a change in a place’s character - they are external forces that occur entirely outside a particular place, e.g. based on relationships with other places
What is location?
Where a place is on a map, its latitude and longitude, coordinates
What is locale?
A place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it.
What is sense of place?
Combination of unique qualities and characteristics that
make a location special - A subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place, a meaning.
-This is developed by experience and knowledge of particular place.
What is placelessness?
The idea that a particular landscape, e.g. an airport terminal could be anywhere as it lacks uniqueness
What is private space?
Places which are experienced and with which people have specific attachments
What is public space?
Places which are connected to natural history, art or state of power
What is perception of place?
The way in which place is viewed or regarded by people. This can be influenced by media representation or personal experience.
What is placemaking?
The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life.
What factors contribute/influence the character of places?
Endogenous:
- location
- topography - e.g. height of land
- physical geography -drainage, floodplain, soil type
- land use - settlement, industrial, agriculture, commercial
- built environment - age of buildings, type of buildings
- infrastructure - road + rail networks, waterways, airports
- demographic - ages + ethnicity and economic characteristics - sector - primary/secondary/tertiary/quaternary
Exogenous:
- relationships with other places
- the people e.g. migrants
- capital - from outside of area
- resources - raw materials, transport infrastructure
- ideas - urban planners, architects, businesses bring ideas to shape + change a place
What is topography?
The physical appearance and surface features of the landscape.
What are experienced places?
Places that a person has spent time in.
What are media places?
Places that a person has only read about or seen in film etc. The reality of place can be very different to that given off by the media.
What quantitative data could researchers use to inform a place study?
- Crime statistics from the police
- Census data
- Index of Multiple Deprivation data
What is a far place?
A place (perceived as being) physically distant and/or not easily accessible
What is a near place?
A place (perceived as being) physically close and/or easily accessible
What is dialect?
A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group, like sentences
What are accents?
The way in which people in a particular area, country, or social group pronounce words; this is how it sounds.
What can accents and dialects cause - positive and negative?
- Contribute to our understanding of residents and to a sense of place.
- However, they may prompt stereo-typing, hiding the diversity within the population of a city, town or village.
Why might placemaking be needed?
- Economic regeneration
- Social inclusion
- Housing need
