Geog 100 Chapter 6

Question 1

coded spaces?

Answer 1

Making one place look or feel like another.

Question 2

symbolic landscapes?

Answer 2

Representations of particular values or aspirations that the builders and financiers of those landscapes want to impart to a larger public.

Question 3

ordinary landscapes?

Answer 3

Everyday landscapes that people create in the course of their lives. Even most “ordinary” places may have strong symbolic meaning

Question 4

Aesthetics?

Answer 4

A culturally determined standard of beauty and good taste.

Question 5

Place Making?

Answer 5

Any activity, deliberate or unintentional, that gives space meaning

Question 6

territoriality?

Answer 6

The persistent attachment of individuals or peoples to a specific location or territory

Question 7

proxemics?

Answer 7

The study of the social and cultural meanings that people give to personal space

Question 8

Place Marketing?

Answer 8

Globalization has forced places to compete for flows of investment
Places are increasingly “commodified” and marketed to particular consumer audiences

Question 9

Sense of place?

Answer 9

Feelings evoked among people as a result of the experiences and memories that they associate with a place and the symbolism they attach to it

Question 10

Semiotics?

Answer 10

Study of how signs create, or signify meaning
Practice of writing and reading signs
Sign: anything that can be used to mean something

Question 11

Modernism?

Answer 11

Key philosophical perspective shaping Western thinking (and practices of place-making) though most of 20th century
Forward-looking view that emphasizes reason, scientific rationality, creativity, novelty, and progress

Question 12

Postmodernism?

Answer 12

Shift in values and attitudes since 1980s

View that emphasizes openness to a range of perspectives: socially, artistically, politically