Definitions

• Space

  Somewhere that is unknown, unfamiliar, like looking at tourist board photos.
• Place

  Defined as a location with meaning. Places can be meaningful to an individual at a social or cultural level.
• A sense of place

  Refers to the subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place. People develop a ‘sense of place’ through experience and knowledge of a place.
• Locale

  Unlike location locale takes into account the effect that people have on their setting and the way a place is shaped by the people, cultures and customs within it.
• Location

  The geographical location
• Localism

  Emotional ownership of a particular place often demonstrated by ‘nimbyism’.
• Regionalism

  Consciousness of and loyalty to a distinct region with a population that shares similarities.
• Nationalism

  Loyalty and devotion to a nation which creates a sense of national consciousness for example patriotism.
• Glocalisation

  Multinational companies are constantly adapting their products to the local marketplace to make them fit in (and also increase profits).

  For example there are currently more than 36,000 Mc Donald restaurants around the world In Hindu countries beef has been removed from the menu while in Muslim countries pork has been removed.
• 'Near' and 'Far' Definitions

  • Geographical difference between places
  • Emotional connection with a place or how comfortable a person feels 
  • Familiarity with a place through direct experience 
  • Familiarity through frequent representational exposure

  Geographically ‘near’ places do not automatically foster identities of familiarity and belonging and that due to globalisation (culture, travel, media) far off places are automatically strange, uncomfortable and different. 
• Experienced places

  Are those places that a person has spent time in 

  Media places - are those that the person has only read about or seen on film, etc. 
• Endogenous factors

  A combination of natural and cultural features
• Exogenous factors

  Those that have an external cause. (The relationship between one place and other places. E.g. the shifting flows of people, money and investment.)
• Place memory

  the ability of place to make the past come to life in the present. E.g. through buildings, museums, monuments. E.g.Eden Camp
• Agents of change

  manage the perception of place. These may include national and local governments, corporate bodies, tourist organisations and community groups.