Changing places

• place quotes

  • place is 'meaningful location' - Agnew 1989
  • 'place is security, space is freedom' - Tuan
  • 'home is where you can be yourself' - Tim Cresswell
  • 'rurality is a social construct' - Paul Cloke
  • 'places and their identity will always be congested' - Doreen Massey
• location

  the latitude and longitude of a place
• locale 


  each place is made up of a series of locales where everyday life activities take place
• sense of place 


  the subjective and emotional attachment to a place
• space 


  a place with no meaning
• Yi-Fu Tuan

  suggests that attachment to a place grows stronger overtime as you have more experiences there and spend longer in the place
• positionality

  factors which influence how we perceive different places
• outsider

  people feel out of place in a certain place
• ethnic clustering

  happens in certain neighbourhoods and roads when the people there are all the same ethnicity so the places adapts to the culture and people feel like an insider
• gemenischaft

  translated as community, individuals bound together by common norms due to shared physical space and beliefs
• Gesellschaft

  translated as society, human relations are more impersonal and indirect and more complex social groups with less in common
• Orientalism

  In Europe there is an idea that the orient (Asian/ Arabian/ Western society) act a certain way
• exogenous factors 


  factors based on characteristics or perspectives originating from outside the place
• endogenous factors


  factors based on local characteristics or perspectives originating from inside the place
• gentrification 


  renovation of older, deteriorating buildings or areas with the aim of attracting high income individuals or elite individuals to a place
• cultural enrichment 


  the addition of ideas, traditions and beliefs due to the arrival of new people
• governance 


  the management of a place or group of people
• genus loci 


  the spirt of a place based on its history, culture and daily atmosphere
• placelessness


  the idea that a particular landscape could be anywhere due to lacking unique features
• clone towns


  the idea that towns are beginning to look identical and lose their place identity as the become swamped with chain stores
• homogenised 


  when something is made uniform or similar
• glocalisation


  the adaption of international products to fit a local culture
• palimpsest


  something that has been reused or altered by still has visible traces of its earlier form
• direct experience 


  a developed sense of place from lived experience which develops a personal identity
• relayed information

  a perception developed through what people have heard or read about a place