Changing Places

Question 1

what does locale mean?

Answer 1

The social elements and context of a place

Question 2

List factors determining an experience of a place?

Answer 2

Age
Culture
Socioeconomic background
gender
Jobs

Question 3

What does topophilia mean?

Answer 3

The strong bond and emotional attachment between people and places

Question 4

What is place lessness?

Answer 4

Places that lack a sense of place and have little individuality or identity

Question 5

What does localism mean and why is it so important to people?

Answer 5

The preference and affection to a close, local area it is usually one of the places we first create an identity with so it is important to us

Question 6

What is regionalism and when can you see this effect most often?

Answer 6

Awareness and loyalty to a region that shares similarities to your own often seen through separatism

Question 7

What is nationalism and give an example of how it is shown?

Answer 7

Loyality to a nation and it is uses celebrated through common heritage and culture

Question 8

What is globalism?

Answer 8

The feeling of being a global citizen and how our actions are shaped by global events

Question 9

In place theories what is a descriptive approach?

Answer 9

The idea that places are distinct and can be studied, generally by physical aspects

Question 10

In place theories what is the social constructionist approach?

Answer 10

That a place is a result of social process, these processes therefore affect the place and the place represents those

Question 11

In place theories what is a phenomenological approach?

Answer 11

Only focuses on how people experience a place this highlights a unique and personal experience to a place, and can be linked with place attachment and topophilia

Question 12

What is an insider and an outsider?

Answer 12

To belong and identify with a place, the stronger you feel about the place the more of an insider you are an outsider is the alienation of a place

Question 13

What is an insider perspective?

Answer 13

The viewpoint and experience of an individual within a place that helps you to understand the norms and customs and lived experiences

Question 14

What is an outsider perspective?

Answer 14

Someone who feels alienated in that area doesn’t understand the social norms and feels like they dont fit in to the place - no emotional attachment

Question 15

What type of architecture is used to create outsiders?

Answer 15

Hostile architecture like anti homeless benches

Question 16

Describe how an insider experiences a place?

Answer 16

They develop a sense of place through everyday familiar settings, daily rhythms and shared experiences which creates a sense of place in a community

Question 17

Describe how an outsider experiences a sense of place?

Answer 17

Their sense of place is vague and abstract, they experience a discovery view which draws on experiences from other places to help

Question 18

What is globalisation?

Answer 18

The growing interconnectedness and interdepend world through trade and technology

Question 19

What does globalisation of a place mean?

Answer 19

Globalisation and capitalism have made places look similar causing local culture and individual meanings to erode and become homogenised, this is due to things like shopping malls and chain stores

Question 20

What is a clone town?

Answer 20

The result of globalisation on a place where unban places have lots of similar shops to others and limited to no uniqueness or individual sense of place

Question 21

What is glocalisation?

Answer 21

The multination chains like MNCs and TNCs adapting to local cultures

Question 22

What is an example of glocalisation?

Answer 22

McDonalds selling products like Prawn burgers in areas like Canada

Question 23

What is a near vs a far place?

Answer 23

A near place is physically or emotionally close to a person with a strong sense of belonging and place, a far place is the opposite where a person isn’t geographically or emotionally near a place and has no connection to it

Question 24

What is an experienced vs a media place?

Answer 24

An experienced place is somewhere that a person has physically and experienced for themselves, a media place is someone who has seen the place on TV or read about, they have not visited this place but the media can create perceptions of place but people haven’t visited media places

Question 25

What is a public vs a private space?

Answer 25

Private places are places specific to us that we are very attached to, public spaces are available to everyone and even though we have individual experiences of places, lots of people use using this place influences it - so it is the people in the place

Question 26

What are endogenous factors and exogenous factors and why does this become important with time?

Answer 26

Endogenous factors are factors that orgininate internally and exogenous are factors that originate externally and are links to other places . Over time these factors become more important as the importance of initial functions are diminished as technology advances occur

Question 27

What are the physical endogenous factors of a place ansd explain what tehy mean ?

Answer 27

Topography - the shape of the landscape Location - where the place is located geographically on a map Physical geography - refers to environmental features like altitude, aspect, soil type, rock type

Question 28

What does topography mean?

Answer 28

The shape of the land like in a valley land would be described as flat but in a mountainous region land would be characterised by steep slopes