Places

Question 1

What is the location

Answer 1

The actual position within a space, often indicated by degrees of latitude, longitude, and distances from other places

Question 2

What is the locale

Answer 2

A place as a setting for particular practices that mark it out from other places

Question 3

What is a sense of place

Answer 3

The subjective and emotional attachments people have to a place. This develops through both experience and knowledge of a place

Question 4

What is perception

Answer 4

Develops through what people have heard or read about a place without actually having been there

Question 5

What is placemaking

Answer 5

The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s QOL

Question 6

What is a place

Answer 6

A geographical space to which people have an attachment. This comprises of the 3 fundamental aspects: Location, Locale and Sense of Place

These 3 factors combined give a more holistic definition of place, and helps geographers to define place

Question 7

What is an insider

Answer 7

Develop a sense of place through everyday experiences in familiar settings

Strong relationship - feel included

Often about the experience, a narrative of close involvement with the landscape and the locale

Question 8

What is an outsider

Answer 8

Their sense of place is more vague and abstract (not a strong relationship)

Have not visited or are unfamiliar with that place

Traveller

Question 9

Advantage of being an outsider

Answer 9

Able to see things afresh

Ask questions that the inhabitants don’t think to ask because the answers are so familiar

Draw upon experiences of places to understand the one under observation

Question 10

Advantage of being an insider

Answer 10

Understanding accumulates and is acquired by just living there

The feeling of place emerges from a deeper, broader pool of familiarity

Question 11

What is a far place

Answer 11

A place that is geographically or emotionally distant

Question 12

What are public places

Answer 12

Places that allow people to visit and move freely around

Question 13

What are experienced places

Answer 13

Places that a person has spent time in

Question 14

What are fields of care (private)

Answer 14

As a result of the daily activities that we carry out, both living and moving through specific environments, we come to form attached to places

Question 15

What are Media places

Answer 15

Places that a person has only read about or seen in a film

Not physically experienced/visited

Question 16

What are Near places

Answer 16

A place that is geographically close or has an emotional meaning to the person

Question 17

What is Endogenous

+ Examples

Answer 17

Factors that are either caused or originate from within (INTERNAL FACTORS) This can include physical aspects and human characteristics of the local people + what they have built

Land Use
Location
Population structure
Population structure
Topography (landscape)

Question 18

What is Exogenous

+Examples

Answer 18

Things that originate or are caused EXNTERNALLY from the area in question. FLows of people, resources and investments

Capital
Imports

Question 19

What is a Palimsest

Answer 19

Something that has been resued or altered, but still bears traces of it’s earlier form.

Question 20

Give 4 examples of aspects of the physical environment that would shape the character of the place

Answer 20

Relief

Altitude

Aspect

Drainage

Question 21

How does relief influence the character of the place

Answer 21

If a place os hilly it is likely to be more remote

Large cities are usually on flat land

Question 22

How does altitude influence the character of the place

Answer 22

High altitude = may be more remote

Sea-side towns rely on proximity to sea and thus, low altitudes

Question 23

How does aspect influence the character of the place

Answer 23

Affects the local climate

Question 24

How does drainage influence the character of the place

Answer 24

Places prone to flooding may be unsuitable for building developments - more remote perhaps

Question 25

Are people an exogenous or endogenous factor

Answer 25

Endogenous (mainly)

Obviously migrants/tourists for example would be exogenous

Question 26

In wat ways can people influence the character of a place

Answer 26

Religion 
Language 
Culture 
Politics 
Crime rates 
Employment opportunities 
Levels of income

Question 27

Why might a place form relationships with other places and how would tis affect the place’s character

Answer 27

Investment from TNC’s - affect consumption patterns and culture

Migration - If lots of people move from a. similar place to the same place, they will bring there religions and culture

Trade - people begin consuming commodities from elsewhere (potentially more culturally diverse)

Tourism - promote specific touristic industries within the visited place

Question 28

Define gentrification

Answer 28

Renovation of old/deteriorating buildings with the aim of attracting high income individuals or elite businesses to a place

Question 29

Define placelessness

Answer 29

Places that lack unique character or reputation due to chain stores replacing local independent shops, or. aleck of attachment experienced by peel visiting the location