Concept of Place

Space

A location with little personal meaning.

Place

A location with personal significance and connections.

How is a place constructed

The connections formed and associations of the place to a person eg crime, family, sense of identity

Factors affecting perception of place

Ethnicity

Family

Purpose

Gender

Political views

3 factors of place attachment

Person

Process

Place

Factors of person in place attachment

• Cultural group : religous, historical

• Individual: experience, realizations, milestones

Factors of place in place attachment

• Social: social arena, social symbol

• Physical: natural, built

Factors of process in place attachment

• Affect: happiness, pride, love

• Cognition: memory, knowledge, schemas, meaning

• Behaviour: poximity maintaning, reconstuction of place

Location

The position that something occupies on Earth's surface

Locale

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

Sense of place

Feelings evoked by people as a result of certain experiences and memories associated with a particular place.

Placemaking Movement

Identity

Belonging

Wellbeing

Identity

Attachment to a place or its characteristics.

Localism

Preference for one's immediate geographic area.

Regionalism

Loyalty to a specific region or community.

Nationalism

Devotion and loyalty to one's nation.

Spitalfields

A diverse London area known for its artists.

Brick Lane

Famous for its Bengali culture and cuisine.

Trafalgar Square

Public square with historical significance in London.

Belonging

Feeling part of a community or place.

Factors affecting belonging

Age

Gender

Sexuality

Socio-economic background

Religion

Ethnicity

Transition Town Movement

An initiative that puts emphasis on community involvement.Aim is to reduce the dilution of place by increasing community engagement

Strategies used by TTM

Food growing groups

Community owned bakeries, breweries and energy

Well being

Ability of people to access the things they need in order to live happy, healthy and contented lives

Leeds- 2024 best place to live in NE and N

Rich cultural scene

Good transport links

High job opportunity

Low housing price

Perception of Place

Influenced by ethnicity, background, and purpose.

Social Constructionist Approach

A place is a product of a particular set of social processes

Phenomenological Approach

Focus on personal experiences and emotions in places.

Descriptive Approach

Idea that the world is a set pf places and that each place is distinct. Analyzes physical attributes of a location.

Cultural Events

Activities that shape the meaning of a place.

Factors affecting perception of place

Political veiws

Gender

Economic background

Family

Globalization

The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Homogeneous

Consisting of parts of the same kind eg. McDonald on high streets all over the world

Clone town

Settlements where the high street is dominated by chain stores

Factors influencing characteristics of place

Endogenous and exogenous

Endogenous factors

internal factors that help shape the character of a place, physical as well as human features

Exogenous factors

external factors that shape the character of a place, generally the relations that a place has with other places that affects its characteristics

Example of endogenous factors

Natural: releif , water, rocks, climate, location

Human: land use, economic, infrastructure and communication

Example of exogenous factors

International business, migration, government rules, technological changes

NIMBY

Not In My Backyard attitude. People don't want things like landfills to be put where they live.

Positionality

A person's uniquely situated social position, which reflects his or her gender, nationality, political views, previous experiences, and so on.

Near place

Geographically near to where a person lives

Far place

a place that is distant physically or significantly different so that it is socially or culturally not in the experience of a person

Experienced place

Places that a person has spent time in

Media place

Places we have formed a perception of based on what we see in the media, makes world seem smaller, more understanding of world.

Rebranding

The way in which a place is redeveloped and marketed so that it gains a new identity. It can then attract new investments, tourists and residents.

Reimaging

Dissociates a place from bad pre-existing images in relation to poor housing, social deprivation, high levels of crime, environmental pollution and industrial derelication. It can then attract new investment, retailing, tourists and residents.

Regeneration

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

Place Marketing

marketing efforts to attract people and organizations to a particular geographical area

Rebranding

Developments aimed at changing negative perceptions of a place making it more attractive to investment

Ways place are represented

Formal

Abstract

Informal

Formal representation

facts, objective, quantitative, statistical data e.g. Census or Geospatial data (GIS)

Abstract representation

a symbol for another object that only represents certain selected features of the object eg London tube map

Informal representation

the way a place is depicted through media such as TV, film and literature, for example

Types of media representation

Photo

Textual sources

Poetry

Film

Music

Architecture

Art and Graffiti