Concept of Place

Question 1

What 5 things define a place?

Answer 1

-Location
-Physical characteristics
-Human characteristics
-Flows
-Sense of place

Question 2

How can physical characteristics change?

Answer 2

Long time scale: rivers migrate
Short time scales: volcano eruptions

Question 3

How do human characteristics change over time?

Answer 3

Long time scale: new people are born old people die.
Short time scale: migration

Question 4

How do flows change over time?

Answer 4

Flow of money could change when a factory closes or opens.

Question 5

What is an insider?

Answer 5

Someone who is familiar with a place and feels welcome. Eg: they feel they belong there and share the same values.

Question 6

What is an outsider?

Answer 6

Someone who feels unwelcome and excluded from a place. Eg: international immigrants who don’t share the same values as the host country may feel like outsiders.

Question 7

Give an example of shared identity at a local scale.

Answer 7

Individuals from a village sharing positive sense of that village.

Question 8

Give an example of shared identity at a regional scale.

Answer 8

The individuals from a region sharing an accent.

Question 9

Give an example of shared identity at a national scale.

Answer 9

Individuals of a nation sharing a language, religion or love for their country.

Question 10

What factors can make a person feel like an insider or an outsider?

Answer 10

-Sexuality
-Age
-Gender

Question 11

What are the 2 types of sense of place?

Answer 11

-Experienced place
-Media place

Question 12

Define experienced place.

Answer 12

Places that people have spent time in. Their experience, such as what they see and who they meet, shape their sense of place.

Question 13

Define media place.

Answer 13

Places that people have not been to but have created a sense of place through its depiction in the media (books, art and film).

Question 14

What is a near place and a far place?

Answer 14

Near is geographically near to where someone lives and far is distant from where a person lives.

Question 15

Where are people more likely to feel like insiders?

Answer 15

Near place

Question 16

Where are people more likely to feel like outsiders?

Answer 16

Far place

Question 17

How has globalisation affected people’s experience of geographical distance?

Answer 17

-Travel technology has meant far places are easier to get to.
-ICT improvements mean that people can be very familiar with media places.
-ICT improvements also mean people remain closely connected no matter where they are.

Question 18

How do global companies and products affect people’s experience of geographical distance?

Answer 18

Chain stores have meant many city centres have the same stores and products so it feels similar.

Question 19

What is placelessness?

Answer 19

A term describing how globalisation is making distant and neat places look the same.

Question 20

Define locale.

Answer 20

The place where specific events take place. Eg: Glastonbury linked with Glastonbury festival.

Question 21

Define what is meant by perception of place.

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What is sense of place.

Answer 22

The subjective and emotional attachment to a place through experience or media representation.