Changing Places - The nature and importance of places

Question 1

What is space?

Answer 1

A location with no meaning, no locale just location

Question 2

What is place?

Answer 2

A location with meaning

Question 3

What is outsider perspective?

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

What are endogenous factors?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is topophillia?

Answer 5

A strong attachment to a place

Question 6

What is topophobia?

Answer 6

A sense of dread or adverse reaction to a place, fear

Question 7

What are exogenous factors?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is location?

Answer 8

Where a place is on a map, its latitude and longitude, coordinates

Question 9

What is locale?

Answer 9

A place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it.

Question 10

What is sense of place?

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

What is placelessness?

Answer 11

The idea that a particular landscape, e.g. an airport terminal could be anywhere as it lacks uniqueness

Question 12

What is private space?

Answer 12

Places which are experienced and with which people have specific attachments

Question 13

What is public space?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is perception of place?

Answer 14

The way in which place is viewed or regarded by people. This can be influenced by media representation or personal experience.

Question 15

What is placemaking?

Answer 15

The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life.

Question 16

What factors contribute/influence the character of places?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is topography?

Answer 17

The physical appearance and surface features of the landscape.

Question 18

What are experienced places?

Answer 18

Places that a person has spent time in.

Question 19

What are media places?

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

What quantitative data could researchers use to inform a place study?

Answer 20

• Crime statistics from the police
• Census data
• Index of Multiple Deprivation data

Question 21

What is a far place?

Answer 21

A place (perceived as being) physically distant and/or not easily accessible

Question 22

What is a near place?

Answer 22

A place (perceived as being) physically close and/or easily accessible

Question 23

What is dialect?

Answer 23

A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group, like sentences

Question 24

What are accents?

Answer 24

The way in which people in a particular area, country, or social group pronounce words; this is how it sounds.

Question 25

What can accents and dialects cause - positive and negative?

Answer 25

• 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.

Question 26

Why might placemaking be needed?

Answer 26

• Economic regeneration
• Social inclusion
• Housing need