Concept of place

Question 1

What are the 3 different aspects of place?

Answer 1

Location Locale Sense of place.

Question 2

What is meant by location?

Answer 2

This is where the area is on a map.

Question 3

What is locale?

Answer 3

This is a place where something happens, or is set, or that had particular events associated with it, causing different behaviours. It takes into account the effect that people have on their setting. It is shaped by the people, cultures and customs within it.

Question 4

What is meant by sense of place?

Answer 4

• This is the subjective or emotional attachment a person has to a place. - people can develop a sense of place through knowledge and experience of a particular area. - It is not always the same, , it may be completely different when looked at from another’s perspective.

Question 5

Why do people sometimes have different perceptions of the same place?

Answer 5

This could be because they have different experiences of the place and may have visited at different times.

Question 6

Why can different place-meanings that people attach to an area create conflict?

Answer 6

If people have contrasting views of a place, they may want it to be treated differently which could create conflict.

Question 7

What are the 3 different approaches to place?

Answer 7

Descriptive Social constructive Phenomenological

Question 8

What is the descriptive approach to place?

Answer 8

This is the idea that the world is a set of places and each place and be studied and is distinct. - Can be studied through a description of its physical and human characteristics

Question 9

What does the social constructive approach see place as?

Answer 9

This sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time.

Question 10

What is an example of a social constructive approach?

Answer 10

Trafalgar Square

Question 11

What was Trafalgar Square built to commemorate?

Answer 11

It was built to commemorate the British naval victory in the 1800s.

Question 12

What could Trafalgar Square be understood to be as?

Answer 12

It could be understood to be as a place of empire and colonialism.

Question 13

What is the phenomenological approach

Answer 13

• Places are defined through human experiences. It is the connection between place and person that transforms unknown spaces into familiar places

Question 14

What is the phenomenological approach interested + not interested in?

Answer 14

• This is interested in how a particular person experiences place, recognising a highly personal relationship and person. - Not interested in The unique characteristics of a place or why it was constructed.

Question 15

What does the term “topophilia” describe?

Answer 15

The affective bond between people and place.

Question 16

How do we get to know places?

Answer 16

Through human perception and experience

Question 17

What is critical in our understanding of place?

Answer 17

The degree of attachment, involvement and concern that a person or group have for a particular place is critical in our understanding of place.

Question 18

A sense of place

Answer 18

Places are dynamic, with multiple identities and no boundaries. They are constantly changing and moulded by the outside influences of the wider world

Question 19

Cultural approach

Answer 19

Places are given meaning by the traces that exist in them - physical traces such as buildings and historic monuments and emotional traces such as events