Concept of Place Flashcards
What helps develop the concept of a place?
Location, Physical characteristics, Human characteristics, Locale and Sense of Place.
What is location?
Location is where is place is, e.g. the co-ordinates on a map
What is Locale?
In terms of locale, a place is shaped by the people, cultures and customs within it
What is sense of place?
The subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place, which may be completely different when looked at from another’s perspective.
Define Place
Place is a location with meaning and can be meaningful to individuals that are personal or subjective. Places can also be meaningful at a social or cultural level and this can be shared by multiple groups of people.
What are three approaches towards place?
Descriptive, Social Constructionist and phenomenological.
What is a descriptive approach?
The idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct
What is a social constructionist approach?
Sees place as a product of particular set of social processes.
A phenomenological approach?
Is not interested in the unique characteristics of a place and why it was constructed
What is placemaking?
The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life.
What are endogenous factors?
The internal factors which shape a place’s character. These could be physical (location, topography, physical geography) or human (land use, built environment, infrastructure, demographic, economic characteristics)
What are Exogenous factors?
The external factors which shape a place’s character, including the relationship to other places and the flows in and out of a place (flows of people, resources, money and ideas)
What is topography? (Endogenous)
Topography refers to the shape of the landscape for example flat or steep. Topography also affects other factors that give places their character.
What is location? (Endogenous)
Refers to where a place is. A place can be characterised by where it is e.g. a beach or a confluence of roads
What is physical geography? (Endogenous)
Physical geography refers to the environmental features of a place (altitude, aspect, soil rock type) or economic characteristics (natural resources characterised by industries exist there)
