Deck 7 - Regenerating Places: Place, perceptions and economic changes Flashcards
What is regeneration?
Regeneration is the long-term upgrading of a place with the aim of benefiting its economic and social characteristics.
What does rebranding mean?
Rebranding involves deliberately reinventing a place for economic reasons and marketing it with a new identity to attract new investors.
What does re-imaging mean?
Reimaging is the remodelling of areas to counter negative perceptions, providing new functions such as retailing, leisure, and tourism.
Define place
Places are geographical spaces shaped by individuals and communities over time.
What factors influence places to change?
They evolve through a combination of human activities, cultural influences, and environmental factors, reflecting the history and identity of the area.
What does place attachment mean?
Place attachment refers to the emotional bond between a person and a place.
How is place attachment influenced by personal experiences?
It is highly influenced by an individual’s personal experiences, including memories, relationships, and significant events associated with the location.
What two components make up a sense of belonging?
Spatial sense of attachment to place and/or attachment to a social group.
How does place attachment differ to sense of belonging?
Place attachment focuses on the individual emotional bond whereas sense of belonging extends beyond the individual to the community.
What is formal representation?
Formal representation are hard facts they are usually shown as statistics such as the census.
What is informal representation?
Informal representation is more subjective than formal representation, it can be shown as songs, films, newspaper articles to name a few.
What does perception mean?
A persons view of a place or issue based on feelings, experience and outside forces such as the media.
What does economic diversification mean?
The transition away from being dependent on one sector and branching out into others (e.g. farmers selling produce in a farm shop)
What does the built environment mean?
The buildings and infrastructure within an urban area.
What does the Clark Fisher model show?
The Clark-Fisher model shows that as an economy advances, the proportion of people employed in each sector changes.