CP - Place

Question 1

Define place

Answer 1

A location with meaning

Question 2

Define location

Answer 2

Where a place is

Question 3

Define locale

Answer 3

Places that are associated with everyday activities

Question 4

What did Edward Relph believe about place?

Answer 4

The more someone feels like an insider, the stronger their identity will be with that place

Question 5

What is a sense of place?

Answer 5

The emotional attachment that a person has to a place, which gives it meaning

Question 6

What is placeslessness?

Answer 6

The idea that a place is not unique, and it lacks a sense of place

Question 7

What is a clone town?

Answer 7

When a high street/area is dominated by chain stores, which can lead to a feeling of placeslessness

Question 8

What does Yi-Fu Tuan suggest about attachment?

Answer 8

Attachment to a place grows over time

Question 9

What is attachment?

Answer 9

A feeling that binds one thing to another

Question 10

How are experiences and a persons attachment to a place connected?

Answer 10

• the number and intensity of experiences someone has with a place, the more attached they become to it

Question 11

Define topophilia

Answer 11

Love for a place

Question 12

Define topophobia

Answer 12

Dislike of a place

Question 13

What are the 4 types of places?

Answer 13

Near, far, experienced, media

Question 14

What is a near place?

Answer 14

A place that is geographically close or one that a person has an attachment to

Question 15

What is a far place?

Answer 15

Places that are distant geographically, or one that a person has no attachment to

Question 16

What is an experienced place?

Answer 16

A place that someone has actually visited and therefore had an experience with, and form an emotional attachment to

Question 17

What is a media place?

Answer 17

A place that is learned about through media representations (e.g books, films, songs)

Question 18

What does most geographers argue about how the type of place affects a persons attachment to it?

Answer 18

An experienced place forms a much greater attachment with a person than a media place, since media interpretations can be altered and perspectives can be skewed to appeal to people

Question 19

Define genius loci

Answer 19

The spirit of a place - suggests that every place has a unique atmosphere, because it is made up of everything that it is made up of, now and in the past

Question 20

What is a place character?

Answer 20

The specific qualities, characteristics and attributes of a location that makes it unique

Question 21

What are the two types of factors affecting place character?

Answer 21

Exogenous and endogenous

Question 22

What is an endogenous factor?

Answer 22

Factors that originate from within a place

Question 23

What are exogenous factors?

Answer 23

Factors that originate externally from the place

Question 24

Name 4 endogenous factors within a place

Answer 24

• demographics (age, gender, ethnicity)
• topography (relief)
• built environment (buildings)
• physical geography (mountains, waterfalls etc)

Question 25

Name 2 exogenous factors affecting a place

Answer 25

• investment
• people (tourists, immigrants etc)

Question 26

How are exogenous factors affecting endogenous factors?

Answer 26

They are shaping the endogenous factors (e.g the culture, demographics)