Meanings & Representations

• People perceive and present places differently
• Who do places have meaning to?

  The people that know the - this is their sense of those places i.e. how they feel about them
• Different people , or groups of people , can attach different meanings to the same places
• How people feel about a place is often dependent on what?

  Their experience of that place eg feeling like insiders or outsiders
• What is the representation of place?


  How individuals or organisations portray places they know about to others
• How might place be portrayed by individuals who are proud to come from a place?


  In a positive way
• How might place be portrayed by individuals who are proud to come from a place?


  in a positive way, whilst individuals who have had a bad experience of a play may present it NEGATIVELY TO OTHERS
• How many organisations such as tourism companies and local councils present places?


  Positively because they stand to gain from how the places are perceived
• How may newspapers choose to focus on place?

  Focus on negative aspects of a place in CIRCUMSTANCES where it may help them to SELL MORE COPIES
• Why are meanings and representations important?


  They can change how people behave towards those places e.g. positive feelings about a place may make a person decide to invest a business there, go on holiday there
• another reason why meanings and representations of places are important?


  Many people generate their identity based on the places they feel connected to