Key Terms

Question 1

Place

Answer 1

A location with a meaning. Places can have meaning to individuals or can be meaningful to different groups of people

Question 2

Place Making

Answer 2

the deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interacts and improve the quality of life

Question 3

Location

Answer 3

Where the place is

Question 4

Locale

Answer 4

A place where something happens or is set that has a specific event associated with

Question 5

Sense of Place

Answer 5

The subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place developed through experience and knowledge of a specific area

Question 6

Perception of a Place

Answer 6

They way is viewed or regarded by people. this can be influenced by the media representation or personal experience

Question 7

Gentrification

Answer 7

Is the re-habitation/renewal of a deteriorated neighbourhood

Question 8

Localism

Answer 8

Love for a particular place

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Regionalism

Answer 9

Loyalty to a distinct region

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Nationalism

Answer 10

Loyalty to a nation

Question 11

Clone town

Answer 11

A town that’s not significantly different to another

Question 12

Homogenised

Answer 12

To make uniform or similar

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Globalisation

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Adapting a business to make it do well

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Belonging

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To be apart of the community

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Insider

Answer 15

To belong and identify with a place

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Experienced place

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Places a person has spent time in

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Positionality

Answer 17

Refers to factors such as gender age race religion ect

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Character

Answer 18

Physical and human features that help make it different to another place

Question 19

Agents of change

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The people who impact on a place through working living or improving a place

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Endogenous

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Characteristics of the place itself

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Exogenous

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Relationship of one place with other places

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Infrastructure

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Services considered essential to enable or improve living conditions

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Descriptive approach

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Idea that the world is a distinct set of places and everyone is unique

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Social constructionist approach

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Places are the way that they are because of particular events taken place over time

Question 25

Phenomenological approaches

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Looks at how people feel about a place rather than the physical features

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Glocalisation

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Response to globalisation. Is the promotion of local goods and services to regain cultural identity in a place

Question 27

Media place

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How the media perceives a place

Question 28

Place marketing

Answer 28

Advertising campaigns and events

Question 29

Rebranding

Answer 29

Used to dispel negative perceptions, aims to give a new positive look

Question 30

Reimaging

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Involves a marketing/ public relations exercise to promote modern, positive image of a place

Question 31

Regeneration

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Long term process aimed to economically regen the area which will bring further social and physical improvement

Question 32

Random sampling

Answer 32

Quadrat thrown randomly

Question 33

Systematic sampling

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Measuring the gradient etc

Question 34

Stratified sampling

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But the population is divided into subgroups and random sampling is taken for each subgroup

Question 35

Descriptive approach

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The idea that the world is a distinct set of places and is unique

Question 36

Social constructivist approach

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The idea that places are the way that they are b/c of social processes occurring at a particular time

Question 37

Phenomenological aproach

Answer 37

Looks at how people feel about a place rather than whats physically there or not

Question 38

Placenesses

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A place that lacks uniqueness