Key Terms Flashcards
Place
A location with a meaning. Places can have meaning to individuals or can be meaningful to different groups of people
Place Making
the deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interacts and improve the quality of life
Location
Where the place is
Locale
A place where something happens or is set that has a specific event associated with
Sense of Place
The subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place developed through experience and knowledge of a specific area
Perception of a Place
They way is viewed or regarded by people. this can be influenced by the media representation or personal experience
Gentrification
Is the re-habitation/renewal of a deteriorated neighbourhood
Localism
Love for a particular place
Regionalism
Loyalty to a distinct region
Nationalism
Loyalty to a nation
Clone town
A town that’s not significantly different to another
Homogenised
To make uniform or similar
Globalisation
Adapting a business to make it do well
Belonging
To be apart of the community
Insider
To belong and identify with a place
Experienced place
Places a person has spent time in
Positionality
Refers to factors such as gender age race religion ect
Character
Physical and human features that help make it different to another place
Agents of change
The people who impact on a place through working living or improving a place
Endogenous
Characteristics of the place itself
Exogenous
Relationship of one place with other places
Infrastructure
Services considered essential to enable or improve living conditions
Descriptive approach
Idea that the world is a distinct set of places and everyone is unique
Social constructionist approach
Places are the way that they are because of particular events taken place over time
Phenomenological approaches
Looks at how people feel about a place rather than the physical features
Glocalisation
Response to globalisation. Is the promotion of local goods and services to regain cultural identity in a place
Media place
How the media perceives a place
Place marketing
Advertising campaigns and events
Rebranding
Used to dispel negative perceptions, aims to give a new positive look
Reimaging
Involves a marketing/ public relations exercise to promote modern, positive image of a place
Regeneration
Long term process aimed to economically regen the area which will bring further social and physical improvement
Random sampling
Quadrat thrown randomly
Systematic sampling
Measuring the gradient etc
Stratified sampling
But the population is divided into subgroups and random sampling is taken for each subgroup
Descriptive approach
The idea that the world is a distinct set of places and is unique
Social constructivist approach
The idea that places are the way that they are b/c of social processes occurring at a particular time
Phenomenological aproach
Looks at how people feel about a place rather than whats physically there or not
Placenesses
A place that lacks uniqueness
