Changing Places

Question 1

Location

Answer 1

Where a place is

Question 2

Locale

Answer 2

The place where something happens, is set or has particular events associated with it.

Takes into account the effect that people have on their setting.

Question 3

Place

Answer 3

Location with meaning. Places can be meaningful in ways that are personal or subjective at a social or cultural level

Question 4

Perception of place

Answer 4

The way in which a place is viewed or regarded by people

Question 5

Placemaking

Answer 5

Deliberate shaping of an environment to meet needs for social interaction and improve quality of life

Question 6

Sense of place

Answer 6

Subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place

Question 7

Representation of place

Answer 7

How a place is portrayed and then seen by society

Question 8

Meaning

Answer 8

Relates to individual or collective perceptions of a place

Question 9

Phenomenological approach

Answer 9

How an individual experiences a place, recognising a highly personal relationship between place and person.

Question 10

Social constructionist approach

Answer 10

Place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time.

Question 11

Descriptive approach

Answer 11

The subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place

Question 12

Identity

Answer 12

An assemblage of personal characteristics such as gender, sexuality, race and religion

Question 13

Belonging

Answer 13

A sense of being part of a collective identity

Question 14

Localism

Answer 14

Love for a particular place

Question 15

Regionalism

Answer 15

Loyalty to a distinct region

Question 16

Nationalism

Answer 16

Loyalty to a nation

Question 17

Insider perspective

Answer 17

Insiders develop a sense of place through their everyday experiences in familiar settings with shared experiences

Question 18

Outsider perspective

Answer 18

More abstract and vague sense of place than an insider, often associated with discovery so a personal view of entering a particular location or landscape and learning about it.

Question 19

Positionality

Answer 19

refers to factors such as genders race, age, religion and socio-economic status which influence how we perceive different places

Question 20

Experienced Places

Answer 20

Places that a person has spent time in

Question 21

Characteristics of a place

Answer 21

Physical and human features that help make it different from another place

Question 22

Agents of change

Answer 22

Individuals, groups and multinational corporations, institutions, media and governments that have driven change intentionally or unintentionally

Question 23

Homogenisation

Answer 23

The process whereby places and social characteristics become similar to each other, so that they eventually become indistinguishable

Question 24

Endogenous factors

Answer 24

Characteristics of the place itself, internal factors. E.g. Physical environment, topography, land use, social and economic characteristics such as population size and employment rates.

Question 25

Exogenous factors

Answer 25

relationship of once place with other places, external factors. Characteristics of a place that are shaped by shifting flows of people, resources, money and investment

Question 26

Infrastructure

Answer 26

Services considered essential to enable or improve living conditions

Question 27

Palismpsest

Answer 27

Something that has been reused or altered but still bears visible traces of an earlier form e.g. Battersea Power Station

Question 28

Place- Memory

Answer 28

The ability to make the past come to life in the present, e.g. historical frontage of the old King’s cross station being retained in the new development of the station.

Question 29

Re-imaging

Answer 29

Dissacoiates places from pre-existing images in relation to crime, social deprivation or industrial dereliction. It can then attract new investment from retail, corporations and residents

Question 30

Rebranding

Answer 30

The way in which a place has re-developed and marketed so that it gains a new identity

Question 31

Regeneration

Answer 31

A long term process involving redevelopment and the use of social, environmental and economic action to reverse urban decline and create sustainable communities.

Question 32

Qualitative data

Answer 32

Information that is non numerical, often coming from interviews, artistic depictions and photographs

Question 33

Quantitative data

Answer 33

Data that can be quantified and verified and is amenable to statistical manipulation

Question 34

Near places

Answer 34

Places either geographically near or to where someone is, or familiar despite being geographically far away

Question 35

Far places

Answer 35

Places which are either geographically far away, or are not familiar in some way.

Question 36

Experienced places

Answer 36

places that a person has spent time in