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Localism

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An affection for an emotional ownership of a particular place.

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Locale

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Takes into account the effect that people have on their setting.

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Legacy

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The regeneration of an entire community for the direct benefit of everyone who lives there.

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Homogenisation

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The process whereby places and social characteristics become more similar to each other so that they eventually become indistinguishable.

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What is a Social Constructionist Approach?

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Sees a place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time.

A locale.

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What effects our sense of place?

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  • Places for special place - more scared of crime
  • Gender - safety, opportunities
  • Indigenous eyes
  • Fear of crime - won’t feel safe
  • Age - safe?
  • Income - social group can be influenced
  • Media - empathise on problems - focus on the wrong assumptions - or focus on positive
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What was required for cities to develop?

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  • Food
  • Education
  • Sanitation
  • Started from farming, rivers (water source)
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Implications of Urbanisation for Rural Areas

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  • Fewer workers (key) - services vulnerable/under pressure
  • Lack of investment - shops closing
  • Loss of public services e.g. transport
  • Decreasing house prices
  • Decrease in agriculture - production jobs
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Implications of Urbanisation for Urban Areas

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  • Increased consumer spending leading to more investment
  • More inequality
  • Potentially lower quality housing or house shortages, rising house prices
  • Increased pollution
  • Pressure on facilities e.g. water/electricity/public services
  • Larger population density - ‘vertical’ building or urban sprawl
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How reliable is an environmental quality survey?

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  • Reliable in measuring quality of things such as buildings, pavements, green spaces as they stay mainly the same
  • Not reliable in measuring things like litter, traffic and pollution as they fluctuate
  • Subjective, people’s personal opinion
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External Forces in Lived Experience

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  • Technology e.g. electricity (national grid), railway
  • TNCs (e.g. Tesco)
  • Government policy e.g. Enclosure acts, allows private property, Petersfield
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Lived Experience

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The accumulated knowledge of living in a particular place. This can have a profound impact on someone’s perceptions, identity and values, as well as their general outlook on the world.

Lived experience of, and attachment to, places, varies.

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Counter Urbanisation

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People moving out of cities.

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Why were Cities initially very Dense?

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Transportation was not widely available.

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Urbanisation

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The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.

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Clone Towns, Border Towns and Home Towns

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Clone towns: 60% chain stores

Border towns: 50% chain stores

Home towns: 30% chain stores

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Glocalisation

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Global companies consider local factors when they’re making decisions. Places don’t all become the same.

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Globalisation

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A process by which economies and cultures have been drawn deeper together and have become more inter-connected through global networks of trade, capital flows, and spread of technology and global media.

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Nationalism

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Loyalty and devotion to a nation, which creates a sense of national consciousness. Patriotism could be considered as an example of a sense of place.

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Insider

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The perspective of someone who knows a place well.

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Far Place

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One that is far away from our locality.

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Location

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Where a place is, for example, the coordinates on a map.

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Media Places.

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Places we know through media such as literature, film or art.

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Exogenous

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Factors from outside a place that force a change in a place character.

E.g. its relationships with other places

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Endogenous

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Factors within a place that help shape its character.

E.g. Location and topography

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Sense of Place

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The subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place.

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Agents of Change

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The people who impact on a place whether through living, working or trying to improve that place.

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How is place linked to identity?

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  • British - Olympics
  • Language
  • English - football/rugby
  • Local place/community
  • Religion
  • Nationality
  • Politics
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Topophobia

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A fear or dread of certain places.

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Near Place

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One that is near to our locality,

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Perception

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How something is viewed, regarded or considered.

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What is a Descriptive Approach?

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The idea that the world is a set of places and each place and each place can be studied and is distinct.

Location.

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Regionalism

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Consciousness of, and loyalty to, a distinct region within a population that shares similarities.

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Topophilia

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A strong sense of place or love of particular places.

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Place

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A location with meaning. They can be meaningful to individuals in ways that are personal or subjective.

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What is a Phenomenological Approach?

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Is not interested in the unique characteristics of a place or why it was constructed. Instead it is interested in how an individual person experiences place, recognising a highly personal relationship between place and person.

A sense of place.

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Excluded (outside groups)

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  • People with disabilities
  • Refugees
  • LGBTQ+
  • Age
  • Traveller
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Homeless
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Experienced Places

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Places that we have experienced ourselves.

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Why do People feel like Outsiders?

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  • Feel like they don’t fit in
  • Don’t feel accepted
  • Society has been built traditionally so they don’t feel the same as someone who is
  • No access in some places for disabilities
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Factors Contributing to Character of Place

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  • Culture - heritage, religion, language
  • Physical landscape - urban, rural
  • Population structure/ethnicity
  • Life expectancy
  • Job opportunities
  • Leader/governments
  • Location/proximity
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Forms of Representation

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  • Historical documents
  • Leaflets - tourism agency
  • Films
  • Census
  • Music
  • Maps
  • Photographs
  • Art
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Re-imaging, Regeneration, Rebranding

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Re-imaging: Changing the image of a place

Regeneration: Changing/improving a place

Rebranding: Changing how it’s marketed

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Perception of Place

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This is developed through what people have heard or read about a place without actually having gone.

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Outsider

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The perspective of someone who does not know a place well.

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