Meanings and Representations of Place Flashcards
What is sense of place?
How people feel about places
What is the representation of place?
How individuals or organisations portray places they know about to others.
Why do governments influence people’s sense of place?
To attract people or investment to particular places
Why do corporate bodies influence sense of place?
To generate profit or for a specific purpose
Why do communities or local groups influence people’s sense of place?
To improve the local economy or lives of locals
What is place marketing?
How places are sold to consumers.
How can place marketing take place?
By social media or marketing companies
What is reimaging about?
About changing existing negative perceptions of places
What is rebranding?
Giving a place a new identity that is appealing to people and investors.
What can statistics tell you?
Lots of quantitative information about what places are like.
What is Quantitative data?
Numerical data e.g graphs
What is Qualitative data?
Non-numerical data e.g art and photographs
What can maps tell you?
Can be used to show any sort of data that has a location
What can films, photographs and art tell you?
What places look like or looked like in the past e.g in historical photographs
What can stories, articles and poetry tell you>
Description of places and a sense of what it is like to be in that place.
