Communities

Question 1

Even in a contemporary world of fluid identities and the fragmentation…

Answer 1

Pain et al (2001)

Many people still associate with particular communities in specific localities, whether they be gang territories in Los Angeles or gay spaces.

Question 2

Communities take many different forms, and equally their geographies are complex and various…

Answer 2

Pain et al (2001)

they may be localised; exist at other distinct spatial scales, be imagined, private or virtual.

Question 3

What is a ‘scanscape’?

Answer 3

Davis (1990)

Designed to exclude those regarded as undesirable.

Urban developments with security guards, gates, barriers, walls…

E.g in some central parts of Los Angeles park benches are curved in such a way as to inhibit people from sleeping on them over night.

Question 4

Role of place in shaping communities:

Answer 4

Barke and Farlane, 2001

1. Structures the daily routines of economic and social life; (functional)
2. Structures people’s life paths, providing them with both opportunities and constraints;
3. Provides an arena in which everyday, ‘common- sense’ knowledge and experience is gathered;
4. Provides a site for socialisation and social reproduction.

Question 5

What is bunker architecture?

Answer 5

Knox and Pinch (2010)

Urban developments with security guards, gates, barriers, walls…

Question 6

References to remember…

Answer 6

Knox and Pinch (2010)
Barke and Farlane (2001)
Davis (1990)
Pain et al (2001) x 2