Changing Places

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Location

Where a place is eg. coordinates on a map

Locale

The effect people have on a place

Sense of Place

Subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place, can be affected by experiences and perspective.

Perception of Place

How individuals interpret and understand a place, influenced by their experiences, beliefs, and cultural background.

Placemaking

Shaping of an environment to facilitate communities quality of life

Descriptive approach

World is a set of places and each place is distinct

social constructionalist approach

Perspective that places are defined through social process like Trafalgar square to commemorate British Naval victory - could be considered as a place of empire

Phenomenological Approach

Focus on individual experiences and meanings attached to places.

Place

Location with meaning

• Location

• Physical Characteristics

• Human Characteristics

• Sense of Place

Space

An empty area to be used

Identity

Character or personality of a person or place

Localism

Emotional ownership of a particular place

• Demonstrated through NIMBYism in relation to development projects

Regionalism

Loyalty to a distinct region with a population that shares similarities

Nationalism

Loyalty or devotion to a nation

• for example patriotism

Homogenised

Process of making places uniform or similar so they become indistinct from one another

Glocalisation

Products or services that are distributed globally but changed to appeal to the target consumer for that country.

• Producing wider variety of vegetarian options in India

Clone Town

Retail towns that are dominated by national or international chains as supposed to independant retailers

Placelessness

Loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so one place looks the same as the next

Insider Perspective

Someone who is familiar with a place and feels part of the community

• does daily things in village

• emotional attachment since often grew up there

• Religion, accent, community, familiarity with area

Can be local (village spirit), regional (Accent) or national (language) level

Outsider Perspective

Someone feels unwelcome or excluded from a place

• immigrant

• homeless person

• age/sexuality/gender

Someone who could have never visited this place so perspective of place would be very different to insiders

Positionality, give examples

How we percieve a place based on our race, age, gender, ethnicity, religion, politics and socioeconomic status

Experienced Place

Places people have spent time in

• things they see

• people they meet

• sense of place

Could be the place of childhood home, relatives town, or home town

Media Place

Places people have not been to but have seen on media such as newspapers or the internet or through other people

• created a sense of place through depiction of books/art/media

• due to globalisation/advances in technology media places are feeling more like near places

Can provide a distorted view of character of place

Exogenous Factors

External factors shaping places character

• Migration (eg Bangladeshi people in Brick Lane = fabric shops)

• Flows of investment (Japanese Nissan in Sunderland = employment/built environment)

• Relative Location (Near big city = commuter settlements)

• Tourism (Affect land use and employment eg Las Vegas Casinos and hotels)

Endogenous Factors

Internal factors that shape a places character

Physical

• location (coastal?Inland?Northern?Equatorial/Equatorial)

• Topography (valley=claustrophibic/contained Flat=open/free but desolate)

• Physical geography (soil/rock type)

Human

• Land use (farming/recreation)

• Built environment/architecture (transport/villages/cathedral/flats)

• Demographic (gender, economy/work)

Near Place

Often geographically near, or how people feel like they are close

• often near places people feel like insiders, however some people may feel excluded

Due to globalisation geographically far places are increasingly becoming near places

Far Place

Often geographically far away

• Often outsiders since they are less likely to have experienced them and feel comfortable in them

Placemaking and Rebranding Strategies

• top down (between government and private businesses)

• Market-led (development driven by private investors)

• Flagship development (prestigious cornerstone of regeneration)

• Legacy (aims to use previous success of an event to continue regeneration)

• Events (use of major cultural occasion for further development)