key terms Flashcards
location
where a place is (GPS or coordinates)
locale
the place where something happens, is set or has particular events associated with it
sense of place
subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place, developed through experience and knowledge
place
location with meaning
perception of place
the way in which a place is viewed or regarded by people, influenced by media or personal experience
attachment to place
a sense of binding to a particular location due to positive and intense experiences
placemaking
deliberate shaping of an environment to meet need for social interaction and improves community’s quality of life
localism
love for a particular place
tourist gaze
distant place
regionalism
loyalty to a distinct region
nationalism
loyalty to a nation
identity
globalisation
increasing interconnectedness of countries around the world
placelessness
places that lack unique character or reputation due to chain stores replacing local independent shops or a lack of attachment experienced by people visiting the place
clone town
a town is not significantly different from another (has same shops)
homogenised place
places that have become indistinct from one another through the process of making things uniform or similar
glocalisation
adapting a business to make it do well in a country (eg Mcdonalds creating McRice in India)
belonging
to be part of the community
well being
the state of being comfortable, healthy or happy
transitional town movement
initiative that puts emphasis on community involvement
near places
places that feel close, physically or emotionally
far places
places that feel distant, physically or emotionally
experienced places
locations a person has visited in their lifetime
media places
places an individual hasn’t visited but has a reputation based from media representation
positionality
refers to factors such as gender, race, age, religion and socio-economic status
character of a place
physical and human features that help make it different from another place
endogenous factors
internal characteristics of the place itself
exogenous factors
external relationship of one place with another
infrastructure
services considered essential to enable or improve living conditions
agents of change
the people who impact on a place through working, living or improving that place
function of a place
multinational corporation
continuity
qualitative data
quantitative data
meaning of place
representation of place
place memory
perception of place
international places
reimaging place
rebranding place
creating a new look or reputation for an area
regeneration of places
place marketing
crowdsourcing
corporate body
objective
subjective
community
local group
residents associations
counter mapping
mercator projection
biomapping
textual source
augmented place
literary source
demographic characteristics
multiple deprivation
economic characteristics
social characteristics
inequalities
artistic representations of place
lived experience of place
market town
gentrification
geospatial data
cultural character
oral sources of data
dialect
topography
built environment
chloropleth map
international institutions
global institutions
national institutions
heritage tourism
deprivation
census
insiders
someone who feels like they belong in a place and identifies with it
outsiders
someone who does not feel like they belong in a place
descriptive approach
the idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct
social constructionist approach
sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time
phenomenological approach
is not interested in the characteristics of a place but instead how an individual person experiences place
genius loci
the unique spirit or atmosphere of a place based on everything the location is made up of, now and in the past
topophilia
topophobia
