nature and importance of place

Question 1

aspects of a place

Answer 1

location
locale - the combination of settings and practices in a place that mark it out as uniwuq
sense of place

Question 2

location

Answer 2

where a place is on the map

Question 3

locale

Answer 3

a place shaped by the people, cultures and customs within it

Question 4

sense of place

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the subjective and emotional attatchment people have to a place

Question 5

sense of place influences

Answer 5

• depth of knowledge and understanding
• quality or intensity of experience
• theory of place attachment

Question 6

identity - defining ourselves

Answer 6

• localism
• regionalism
• nationalism

Question 7

identity - localism

Answer 7

affection or emotional ownership of a place
- nimby
- reluctance to development

Question 8

identity - regionalism

Answer 8

consciousness of and loyalty to a region where the population shares similarities
EG - cornwall right to self rule

Question 9

identity - nationalism

Answer 9

devotion to a nation and sense of national consciousness
- patriotism

Question 10

belonging

Answer 10

being part of a community
often a focus on regeneration schemes
influenced by a number of factors

Question 11

influences on belonging

Answer 11

age, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity
- londons multiculturalism develops mutual support and cultural preservation

Question 12

wellbeing

Answer 12

important role in quality of life of residents

Question 13

wellbeing - the transition town movement aims

Answer 13

tackle issues of globalisation, dilution of place identity, loss of community and economy

Question 14

wellbeing - transition town movement results

Answer 14

1200 initiatives
- community owned sectors (bakers, brewers, energy)
- street projects
- building community relationships
- REconomy projects (new jobs)
- food growing groups

Question 15

globalisation impact on sense of place - totnes

Answer 15

• residents responded to proposal by costa by signign a petition that boycott any coffee chain that came to totnes
• after 8 months costa dropped the proposal

Question 16

globalisation of place

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increased presence of global chains (starbucks)
community-less geography of nowhere

Question 17

clone towns

Answer 17

settlements where the high street is dominated by chain stores - leads to placelessness

Question 18

glocalisation

Answer 18

local places and cultures resisting the power of globalisation
- multinational companies then increasingly adapt to local marketplaces

Question 19

localisation of place - totnes

Answer 19

the totnes pound - introduced its own local currency to encourage more internal spending and keeping investment within the local economy

Question 20

insider perspective

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people who have high belonging in a place
- conform to local norms
- understands unspoken rules
nimby

Question 21

outsider perspective

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people who feel ‘out of place’ and feel as though they dont belong
- misunderstands social norms
positionality

Question 22

perspective - california hills

Answer 22

‘cursing the dust, cracking the brittle weeds’
- outsiders percieve the landscape as sparse and empty
‘yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain’
- constrasting perception for an insider, comforting

Question 23

near place

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geographically close or emotionally familair place to an individual

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far place

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geographically far or emotionally unfamiliar

Question 25

experienced place

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places that a person has spent time in

Question 26

media place

Answer 26

places that are only experienced through reading or visual media

Question 27

character of a place

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physical and human features that distinguish it from another place - uniqueness

Question 28

endogenous factors influencing place character

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originating internally
- location
- physical geography/topography
- land use
- built environment
- demographic and economic characteristics

Question 29

exogenous factors influencing place character

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relationship with other places and external facotrs it brings
- demographic, socio economic and cultural characterstics
shaped by shifting flows of people, resources, money and investment

Question 30

examples of influences on character of place

Answer 30

deindustrialisation/globalisation - exogenous
new housing estates - end and ex
second home purchasing/gentrification - exogenous