places definitions

What is a palimpsest

A place that has changed over time and shows evidence of that change

What is a place

Space with meaning

What is placelessness

Places that lack a unique identity; generic spaces like shopping malls that look similar everywhere

What is placemaking

The collaborative process of designing, developing, or regenerating urban or rural environments

What is place attachment

The emotional bond between people and a place based on experiences and behaviour

What is place identity

The characteristics of a place (social, economic, cultural, environmental, political, demographic)

What is place perception

How people view a place and the meanings they attach to it

What is a place profile

The combined social, economic, cultural, environmental, political, and demographic features of a place

Who are players in geography

Stakeholders or people/organisations involved in a process

What is qualitative data

Non-numerical data like interviews or images showing perspectives and opinions

What is quality of life

The level of social, psychological, and physical wellbeing

What is quantitative data

Numerical data, such as statistics from a census

What is rebranding

Changing a place’s identity through marketing and physical improvements

What is regeneration

Long-term improvement of a place’s economic, social, and environmental conditions

What is reimaging

Creating new perceptions of a place through culture, events, or design

What is representation of a place

How a place is portrayed or described

What is social inequality

Unequal opportunities and rewards within society

What is space

A physical location (e.g. coordinates on a map)

What is spatial inequality

Unequal distribution of resources or services across areas

What is standard of living

Access to goods and services like housing, food, healthcare, and education

What is structural economic change

A shift in how an economy functions (e.g. from manufacturing to services)

What is time-space compression

The feeling that distances are shrinking due to faster travel and communication

What is a 24-hour city

A city where services and activities are available all day and night

What is cyclical economic change

Cyclical economic change refers to frequent periods of boom and bust (linked to supply and demand)

What is the cycle of poverty

A set of factors that causes poverty to continue unless there is outside intervention due to lack of resources like money, education, or connections

What is deindustrialisation

The decline of manufacturing in a country or region’s economy

What are endogenous factors

Factors that originate from within a place, such as natural features like rivers

What are exogenous factors

Factors that originate from outside a place, such as external investment by a TNC

What is the Gini index

A measure of income distribution from 0 (perfect equality) to 1 (perfect inequality)

What is global shift

The movement of manufacturing from ACs to EDCs and LIDCs since the 1970s

What is globalisation

The process of increasing global interconnectedness through trade, transport, and cultural exchange

What is glocalisation

A global product or service that is adapted to suit local contexts

What is homogenisation

The process of becoming more similar or uniform

What is the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

A dataset measuring deprivation using factors like income, employment, health, education, housing, crime, and living environment

What is an informal source

A subjective, non-statistical way of representing places using media like film, TV, music, or blogs

what are the 4 exogenous factors

flows of people, flows of resources, flows of money or investment , flows of ideas

what is an insider viewpoint perception – place perception?

an individual who lives wihtin the place and has experienced it

what is an outsider viewpoint – place perception

someone who has little experience of a place – doesnt live there hasn't visited

what are the personal characteristics?

age,gender,sexuality,role,religion

how does age effect place perception?

older people tend to have more memories associated with a place, which can change their view.

how were young people changing the place in Helsinki

they were hanging out in areas and giving them new meaning, like the mall, where they hung out instead of using it for its intended purpose.

how can gender effect place perception

women can feel more uneasy in areas where they have created a mental map of unsafe areas due to past or secondary experiences.

what is an example of an emotional attachment

korean children in japan - there are 150,000, they follow korean traditions but in japan

how can cyclical economic change effect places

high streets can suffer with around 25% in serious decline as of 2017

what are the indications of HDI

life expectancy , education and per capita income

what are the factors which affect wealth of nations?

political factors, historial factors, economic factors and environmental factors

what are the measures of inequality?

housing , education, healthcare , employment, acess to services

government definition

the group of people with the authority to govern a county or state

ways the government can reduce inequality

public spending, minimum wages, taxation

ways the government can reinforce inequality

localised investment, not national fiscal policies – cutting spending, infrastructure removal

who revives the most amount of spending in England?

the north east: £11,170

gentrification in cambridge

romsey - opposed i tesco on the road and got it removed due to boycotting

elizabeth park sucess

1,000 afordable homes were built, 100 hecter of green space

elizabeth park fauilres

less than 10% of the promised affordable housing was built