Changing places key terms

locale

Locale refers to a specific geographical or cultural region, with events associated with it

sense of place

emotional bonds and attachments people develop or experience in certain locations

place

location plus it’s meaning

perception of place

the understanding of a place that is selective, how it presents itself

insider perspective

based on everyday experience and familiarity from within the place

outsider perspective

looking and learning about a place. comes from unfamiliarity and little to no experience of the place

freehold

a type of property ownership where a person or organisation has ownership forever

placemaking

aims at planning, design and management of public places to promote health, happiness and wellbeing

localism

the idea that foods and goods should be sourced locally - a more sustainable approach.

tourist gaze

tourists’ way of seeing places are directed and organised by tourism industries and organisations

rural-urban continuum

merging of town and village

regionalism

describing a place in terms of its individual characteristics that make it unique

nationalism

attachment of a person to a particular nation

topophilia

a persons emotional and cognitive bonds with a place

topophobia

A fear of a certain place and negative emotions associated with it

globalisation

increasing connections between places across the world through trade, media and culture

placeness

the quality and identity a place has

placelessness

the loss of local identity

edge lands

the zone between rural and urban borders

liminal

borders or spaces between places marking the transition

clone town

a town with many chain stores lacking in individual identity

glocalisation

process of adapting brains and products to suit the local market

time-space convergence

the lessened friction in distance between places - better connections and accessibility

transitional town

a place aiming to create local resilience and independence

positionality

the how differences in social position and power shape identities and access in society.

endogenous factors

characteristics of a place that come from within the place itself

exogenous factors

factors from external places that impact the character of a place

suburbanised village

village of people who live and sleep there but commute for work adopting the characteristics of the urban place they are employed in

commuter village/dormitory village

a place that is primarily residential rather than business oriented

green belt

aims to prevent urban sprawl between villages as a buffer

homogenisation

when places increasingly resemble other places

multinational corporations MNC/TNC

company that operates in more than one country and have factories in less economically developed countries for cheeper product production

non-governmental organisation NGO

non-profit charity that deals with many different issues

place memory

that ability of a place to present and remember its history

place marketing

set of statistics used to market a city or other location

crowdsourcing

turning to a group of people to obtain needed knowledge or recourses

counter mapping

effort of mapping against dominant power structures with the aim of creating social or political change.

Mercator projection

spherical globe is flattened into a two dimensional map with latitude and longitude lines

geoglyph

large scale drawing or image created on the ground visible from the air

firstspace

‘real’ space things that can be mapped and seen by the human eye

secondspace

imagined space, how a space is represented or perceived

thirdspace

real and imagined space the way that people live in and experience a place

social cleansing

the removal of a social group from society that are deemed undesirable

multiple deprivation

a measure of deprivation from one place to another

gentrification

wealthy individuals move into a more deprived area

provenance

place of origin or earliest known history

topography

arrangement of natural and physical features in an area

chloropleth map

areas are coloured or shaded according to a range of statistics

big data

enormous sets of data that can be analysed to reveal patterns and trends

market town

a small town that has a regular market