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Place Theory Flashcards

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1
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Define locale

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A personal attachment someone has to a particular place.

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Define sense of place

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The cultures and social dynamics of a place

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What is a media place?

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A place familiar to a person through the media. They have not personally been there.

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What is an experienced place?

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A place that a person has visited.

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What is a near place?

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A geographically, emotionally near

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What is a far place?

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Emotionally, geographically far

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Define insider

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A person who knows a place very well, with detailed knowledge and understanding. Shared cultural norms with the people.

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Define outsider.

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A person who is not familiar with a place and doesn’t know the rhythms and norms of the area. Asks questions that and insider would not ask.

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What is a descriptivist approach?

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

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What is a social-constructivist approach

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

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What is a phenomenological approach?

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How an individual person experiences a place. Their personal relationship with a place.

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Outline Topophobia and Topophilia

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Yi Fu Tuan.
Topophobia - fear of a place.
Topophilia - love of a place.

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How has globalisation affected near/far/media places?

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Time space compression.
‘Shrinking world’ theory.
Global village.

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How are media places unreliable portrayals?

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Vested interest to sell?
Hide problems - rural idyl - more homelessness in rural areas.

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Sense of place can change at different levels.
What are these levels?

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Localism (gymkanas), regionalism (Cornish flag), nationalism (welsh signs, own national anthem).

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What is Ethnography

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A research method involving observing people in their own environment to understand their perspectives, actions and way of life.

17
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What phrase was coined by Doreen Massey and WHEN?

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‘A global sense of place’
1991

18
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Define endogenous factors

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Characteristics of a place that have originated internally

19
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Define exogenous factors

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Factors that have an external cause or origin.

20
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What are the 6 endogenous factors?

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Location
Land use
Demographic + economic characteristics
Physical geography
Built environment/infrastructure

21
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What are the 6 exogenous factors?

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Flow of people
Trade
Communication links
Government policies
Flow of capital
Flow of ideas

22
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Define ‘agent of change’

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Any group of people who work to impact a place through working there, living or trying to improve the place.

23
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Outline some exogenous factors within Torquay.

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£32 million regeneration of the town centre (2018)
Net loss of 15-19yr olds- outward migration.

24
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Outline an exogenous factor impacting Eastleigh

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Movement of Dinkys - dormitory town.

25
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Name some endogenous factors affecting Torquay.

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Microclimate
Wide variation in house prices (average -£225,000 but some reach excess of £1,000,000.)

26
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Names some endogenous factors affecting Eastleigh

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Sits on a wide flat floodplain.
Mostly residential land use.
Population - main driver of economic growth due to deindustrialisation.

27
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What are the indices of multiple deprivation?

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unique measure to assess the relative deprivation levels in an area

28
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List the indices of multiple deprivation

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Income,
Employment,
Education,
Skills + training,
Health + disability
Crime
Barriers to housing + services
Living environment

29
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Criticism of the IMD?

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Anomalies in any area may skew data - not wholly representative
Ranks and deciles are relative but they don’t show by how much an area is more deprived.

30
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What is Gemeinschaft?

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Outlined by Ferdinand Tönnies

rural extreme - inward looking, idyllic community - based on kinship.

31
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What is Gesellschaft?

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Outlined by Ferdinand Tönnies

Urban extreme - ever-changing nature of cosmopolita.

32
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Define placelessness, clone town, homogenous, placemaking

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Placelessness - when an area lacks a distinct identity.
Clone town - when an area lacks identity due to no individual features - too many chain shops.
Homogenous - when an area is starting to loose its identity through a majority of chain shops.
Placemaking - the act of agents of change to cultivate a sense of place.

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What is big data?

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A mass collection of data that is large in number of responses and in computational power needed to analyse it.
Useful because gives accurate analysis of factors
e.g Census data, data shine

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