Place Flashcards
What is a place?
The location - where it is on a map
Locale- activity that takes place
Sense of place - the personal emotional attachment to a place
What is the definition of space
An area with no meaning
What is placelessness
The idea that a particular landscape/ experience can be anywhere because it lacks uniqueness eg an airport
What is our attachment to a place influenced by
The quality/ intensity of the experience we have there
What are the factors that shape the characteristics of a place
People
Religion
Government
Food
Purpose
Population density
Wealth
Culture
Physical landscape
Connections to other places
What are endogenous factors
Internal factors that help shape a place
What are exogenous factors
External factors that help shape a place
What are endogenous examples
Land use
Location
Infrastructure
Physical geography
Demographic
Topography
What are the exogenous examples
People - commuters to work
Resources
Money
Investment
What is re-urbanisation
When an area becomes increasingly built up as more people move there
What is re-branding
Reinventing a place for economic reasons
Re- imagining
Reinventing a place for cultural reasons
Re- making
An umbrella term- brings together social, physical, economic and cultural changes a place may experience
