Lesson 1- The Concept of Place

Question 1

Space

Answer 1

• Refers to the physical location like an address or co-ordinate with no meaning

Question 2

Locale

Answer 2

• That is the place where somehting happens or is set, or that has particular events associated to it

Question 3

Meaning

Answer 3

• Relates to individual or collective perceptions of place

Question 4

Media

Answer 4

• Means of communication including television film, art and news papers that inlfuence people widely

Question 5

Place-making

Answer 5

• The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a communities quality of life

Question 6

Sense of place

Answer 6

• This refers to the subjective and emotional attatchment people have to a place which develops through experienmce and knowledge of a particular area

Question 7

Place

Answer 7

• A place refers to a space which has meaning attatched and they can have different meanings between people dependings on their memories attatched to the place

Question 8

Doreen Massey’s 4 key components of a place

Answer 8

• Places do not have one identity
• Are not frozen in time
• Do not have clearly defined boundaries
• Are shaped by internal and external linkages

Question 9

What are global influences on a place?

Answer 9

• TNC’s outcompete local small scale markets
• Globalised ideologies: UK road signs found in asian countries
• Culture has spread across the world

Question 10

What are the 3 aspects of place?

Answer 10

• Locale-The purpose of a place
• Location-Physical characteristics, address
• Sense-The subjective attatchment

Question 11

How do we develop a sense of place?

Answer 11

• Attatchment increases with age
• Attatchment acctually begins as a baby in yoour parents arms- emotional ettatchment
• On top of the quality of the experience is the intensity of the experience

Question 12

Malala Yousafzai

Answer 12

• Her “heart smiles”. In her description of the Swat valley she therefore evokes a sense of place.
• This place is not necessarily where Malala is “located” it is where she feels at home and has the best and most intense attachment to her place.
• Additionally, this is where she was shot in the face attem pting to go to school so therefore is an intense experience

Question 13

How are places dynamic?

Answer 13

• Ground Zero, New York
• Changed from a commercial building to a memorial
  -potetial tourism