Terminology Flashcards
Religious identities
Linked to a place as major religions have sacred/holy places, often destinations of pilgrimage
Power of place
How well known/impactful different places are
Belonging
Felling like part of a community
Local identity
Dependant on the area people were born, food, class and language
Transition town movement
Aims to promote wellbeing and belonging by building a strong, healthy community
Location
‘Where’ a place is, a point in space
Locale
Takes into account the effect people have on their settings. Place is shaped by the people
Sense of place
Subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place
Insider perspective
Feeling at home in a certain place, feeling like you belong
Outsider perspective
Connect negative experiences to place and create a negative perception. Eg exclusive reassurances may make people from disadvantaged backgrounds feel alienated
Socio- spatial exclusion
Concept that dominant groups who have social/political power in society determine who is allowed to be in a place and how they should behave.
Social exclusion
Separation from family/community
Often on margins of society
Descriptive theorising place
Idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studies and is distinct
Focuses on unique characteristics of plave
Social constructionist theorising place
Sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time.
Why a place is the way it is
Phenomenological theorising olave
Interested in how individuals experience place and the personal relationships between person and place.
Spatial exclusion
Moving towards hostile architecture in cities
Criminalising homelessness
Private
Belonging to or for the use of a particular person or group
Public
Relating to a population or community as a whole
Experienced place
Those places that a person has spent time im
Media places
Those that the person has only read about or seen in a film
Character of place
The physical and human features that help distinguish a plve
Endogenous factors
Factor shaping a place that originates from within
Topography, physical site
Exogenous factors
Factors shaping a place that are caused of originated externally.
Flows of people, resources, ideas, investment
Flows of people
Tourists, migrants - transform places
Labour flows
Flows of resources
Resources traded globally have huge impacts on people and places
Agriculture, energy, metals
Flows of investment
Money can be sent across international borders
Foreign investment, aid from disasters
Flows of ideas
Advances in communication technology
Political (democracy), technology
Globalisation
Businesses and organisations developing international influence
Placelessness
Casual eradication of distinctive places, weakening the identity of place
Clone town
Settlements where high streets are dominated by chain stored
Glocalisation
Multinational companies having to adapt to their local marketplaces
Geospatial data
Time based data related to a specific location on earth
Eg census data, satellite imagery
Big data
Extremely large data sets that may be analysed to reveal patterns and trends
Cittaslow movement
Idea of introducing slow cities that cherish traditions
Gentrification
Urban process taking place in inner city areas, increasing wealth due to the people moving in
Pioneer gentrification
Reoccupation of housing, and upgrading properties by individuals
Mature gentrification
Arrival of upmarket places, estate agents and improved public transport
Agents of change
Individuals or groups that drive change in a place
Corporate bodies
Organisations of people identified by a particular name
Corporate bodies
Organisations of people identified by a particular name
Re-imaging
Dissociates a place from bad pre-existing images
Rebranding
Place is redeveloped and marketed to gain a new identity
Regeneration
A long term prefers involving redevelopment and the use of action to reverse urban decline
Privately owned public space
Eg Zucotti park
Open 24 hours a day, but strict rules about camping and lying on benches
