L1- What is a place?

• A place can be understood in several ways

  1. A point in space
  2. Somewhere that can be mapped, represented or measured
  3. Something concrete with elements that make it identifiable
  4. Somewhere local
  5. Somewhere meaningful
  6. Associated with human behaviour or culture
• Places may be spatially constructed to.......

  create an emotional response
• Places can be represented in a range of different media such as....


  text, images or performance
• A place is....

  a space with meaning.
• Places differ from the abstract notion of space because

  places have a meaning to people.
• A space becomes a place as.....

  we get to know it better
• Yi Fu Tuan (1977)- "Place is security while space is......"


  freedom
• John Agnew(1989) describes a place as

  a meaningful location.
• What is Ousefleet

  Thought to be the most boring grid square in Britain. Important as it shows what can be an empty space to someone can be a significant place to someone else.
• A liminal space is......

  the physical space between one destination and the next
• To be in a liminal space means....

  to be on the precipice of something new but not quite there yet. Being in a liminal space can be uncomfortable for most people.
• Yi Fu tuan sees space as infinite and place as.....

  bounded, identifiable, and something to which humans can become emotionally attached to.
• Examples of liminal spaces are.....

  Hallways, airports and streets.
• Location is

  Where a place is on a map; its longitude and latitude
• Locale

  A series of settings that make up a place, where everyday life activities take place, such as an office, park, home or school
• Sense of place

  The subjective, emotional attachment to a place; its meaning
• Placelessness

  The idea that a landscape may be "anywhere" as it lacks uniqueness. Leads to the "Clone Town" effect.
• Out of place

  When behaviour that differs from the norm and dominant groups who have economic, social and political power make these groups feel uncomfortable.
• Explain the "Tourist Gaze" as explained by John Urry

  The set of expectations that tourists place on local populations when they participate in heritage tourism, in the search for having an "authentic" experience.
• Explain what geographers man by the concept of "place" [4 marks]

  The concept of ‘place’ involves looking at places as more than locations – geographers look at all the things that come together to make a place what it is (1).​

  This includes all the physical and human characteristics of places (1)​

  Plus all the things that flow in and out of a place, such as people, money, resources and ideas (1)​

  It also includes people’s ‘sense of place’ – the emotional meanings places have to groups or individuals (1)