theoretical approaches to place

the 3 main approaches

descriptive

• the idea that the world that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is destinct. every place described differently

social constructionist

• sees a place as a product of a particular set of social processes occuring at a particular time

• does a place really have meaning if noone live/does anything there?

• peoples meaning defines a place

trafalgar square in social constructionist

• was buiilt to remember / comemorate british history (wars and colinisation)

• old buildings and statues and war memorials

• place for protesting and freedom of speech

• has a 4th plinth for modern art

phenomenological

• this is not intrested in unique characteristics or why it was constructed. instead it is intrested in how an individual person experiences and places, recognised a highly personal relatioship between place and person

topophilla

• an extremly strong sense of place

• an attachment of a place place to personal identity and culture