T2. The Nature and importance of place

Question 1

what does Locale mean?

Answer 1

a place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it

Question 2

What does location mean?

Answer 2

‘where’ a place is, for example co-ordinates on a map

Question 3

What does Place mean?

Answer 3

a location with meaning, places can be meaningful to individuals in ways that are personal or subjective

Question 4

What does sense of place mean?

Answer 4

refers to the subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place

Question 5

What are the 3 theoretical approaches to place?

Answer 5

• A descriptive approach = idea the world is a set of places that can be studied
• A social constructionist approach = sees a place as a product of a certain time and social processes e.g. Trafalgar Square has colonial connotations
• A phenomenological approach = individual experiences and interpret a place

Question 6

How can lived experience be explored?

Answer 6

identity and belonging

Question 7

How can identity explore lived experience?

Answer 7

Identity can be local by emotional ownership for a place, rarely political but shown through nimbyism ‘not my back yard’ when people are reluctant for change, it can be regional as people have loyalty to a district and it can be national when someone is patriotic and loyal to a nation
- People might identify with a place through a language, flag, national anthem and cultural events
- Places can lose identity due to glocalisation has occurred with TNCs entering local markets creating ‘clone towns’ and placelessness

Question 8

How can belonging explore sense of place?

Answer 8

Belonging means to be part of a community, it can be affected by race, sexuality, age, gender, socio-economic status – as globalisation has occurred migration has increased making places much more diverse – London has become most diverse city in the World

Question 9

What is an insider and outsider?

Answer 9

-Insider = an individual within a place/who lives there and has an experience of the place and knows its daily rhythms
-Outsider = someone who is not from the certain place/doesn’t live there/has little or no experience of that place.

Question 10

What does Topophobia and topophilia mean?

Answer 10

Topophobia = fear of place
Topophilia = love of a place

Question 11

What are the 2 categories of place?

Answer 11

Experienced place = a place where someone has spent time in
Media place = a place that someone has read about or seen on film and has high expectations

Question 12

What are the 2 factors contributing to sense of place?

Answer 12

• Endogenous = internal factors (physical and human)
• Exogenous = external factors

Question 13

Name some exogenous factors influencing place?

Answer 13

• Governmental policies = These can help attract businesses to places to stimulate economic growth e.g. Enterprize zones and tax reductions
• MNC = job creation but also job loss e.g. port Talbot, also in 2010 Cadbury factory was closed in Bristol
• Impacts from Global institutions = in 2015 the world bank was running 15 development projects in Haiti post-earthquake

Question 14

Give examples of continuity or change

Answer 14

• Port Sunlight = in 1888 William Lever a factory owner created a community for his workers to live in, in 1966 they became a conservation area and have changed little since.
• Devonport, Plymouth = Devonport and Plymouth were separated by a naval wall from the dockyard, and it was a very deprived area, between 2001-11 this changed considerably bring new investment and regeneration and destruction of the wall.
• Medellin = in 1990s due the power of Pablo Escobar it was a crime infested area and extremely deprived. Since then, it’s gone under significant rebranding with main focuses on accessibility and tertiary sector.