Changing Place

Location of Stroud

Market Town in Gloucestershire, South West England, the meeting point of the Five Valleys

Stroud: Topography

Low elevation, highest point 302m

Stroud: Geology

Limestone

Stroud: 17-19th century characteristics

Tailoring and clothing

Stroud: 1951 Population

78977

Stroud: 1951 Employment

36014 (45.6%)

What is Stroud known for?

Birthplace of the Organic food movement in July 1999

Stroud: 2011 Population

112779

Stroud: 2011 Employment

55589 (61%)

Stroud: 2021 Populaton

121100

Stroud: 2021 Employment

88%

Stroud: Built Environment

Roughly 35% are chains, 65% independent shops

Stroud: September 2020 redevelopment

Stroud Town Shopping Centre was completed

Stroud Town Shopping Centre investments

Dransfield Properties and Gloucestershires Local Enterprise Partnership

Stroud: The food court

Fully independent

Detroit: Prior to Great Migration Population

~6000 African Americans

total >500000

Detroit: City Peak 1950

1.8 million

White population fell 95% between 1950 and 2010 Censuses

Detroit: 2010 Population

Total 713777

White 10.61%

Black 82.69%

Detroit: 2020 Population

total 63911

White 10.7%

Black 77.69%

Detroit: Population below the poverty line

31.8%

Define: Location

Where a place is on a map, eg coordinates

Define: Locale

The effect people have on a place, how place is shaped by cultures and customs.

Define: Sense of place

Subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place which may be different to someone else with a different perspective.

How do people develop Sense of Place?

Through experience and knowledge of a particular place

Define: Perception of place

The way a place is viewed or regarded by people which can be influenced by media representation or personal experience

What is placemaking?

The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a communities quality of life

What is the Descriptive Approach?

The idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct

What is the Social Constructive Approach?

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

What is the Phenomenological Approach?

Referring to place in terms of peoples individual experiences and recognising a personal relationship between people and place.

What is place?

A location with meaning

What is space?

An empty area to be used

Define: Identity

The distinguishing character or personality of a place

Define: Localism

An affection for a particular place. Demonstrated through NIMBYism (Not In My Backyard) in relation to development projects

Define: Regionalism

Consciousness of, and loyalty to, a distinct region with a population that share similarities.

Define: Nationalism

Loyalty and devotion to a nation, which creates a sense of national consciousness. Patriotism is an example.

Define: Homogenised

The process of making places uniform or similar so that places become indistinct from one another.

Define: Glocalisation

Multinational companies adapting to local marketplace, for example McDonalds.

What are Clone Towns?

Urban retail areas dominated by chain stores making the place like others.

What is an example of a Clone Town chain?

Costa in Totnes, South Devon (2012)

Define: Placelessness

The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next

Define: Insider

To belong and identify with a place

Define: Outsider

To be outside of a place/uncomfortable with that place

Define: Personality

How we perceive a place based on our race, age, gender, ethnicity, religion, politics and socio-economic status

Define: Experienced Place

A place that someone has spent time in and knows personally

Define: Media Place

A place that someone has only read/heard about or seen in a film

Define: Belonging

Meaning to be apart of a community.

Define: Well-being

A state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.

What four factors affect well-being in place?

Sociability, Uses and Activities, Comfort and Image, and Access and Links

Define: Global Sense of Place

Places are dynamic, with multiple identities, and do not have boundaries.

Define: Near Place

Considered in a geographical sense, the area close in proximity. Considered in an emotional sense, close to someone’s heart.

Define: Far Place

Places that are geographically distant, or distant in emotional connection.

Define: Experienced Place

A place where someone has recently spent time within. The longer spent in a place, the stronger the sense of place.

Define: Media Place

Places which have only been read about, seen in media or on the internet.

Define: Genius Loci

The prevailing character or atmosphere of a place.

Define: Character of Place

The specific qualities, attributes, or features of a location that make it unique.

Define: Exogenous Factors

Characteristics which originate externally, example people, money, investments.

Define: Endogenous Factors

Characteristics which originate internally, example location, geology, land-use.

Define: Stakeholders

Groups within society whose actions have a huge role in constructing place identity.

Define: Gentrification

When wealthy people move into run down areas and improve the housing of an area.