Changing Places

• Accessibility - How easy it is to travel to a place or interact with an individual.
• Culture - The way of life of a particular group of people at a particular time, generally customs and beliefs.
• Attachment - A sense of binding to a particular location due to positive and intense experiences.
• Built Environment - The buildings and infrastructure within an urban area. Capital - Productive assets, goods or financial stakes.
• Commuter - An individual who regularly travels a distance between their residence and their employment.
• Demographic - The characteristics of a population.
• Deprivation - Individuals lack basic services or objects they would expect to have in the 21st Century.
• Diversity - Variation within a population, in their characteristics, background and behaviour.
• Cultural Enrichment - The addition of ideas, traditions and beliefs due to the arrival of new people.
• Endogenous Factor - Factors based on local characteristics or perspective originating from inside the place.
• Experienced Places - Locations a person has visited in their lifetime.
• Exogenous Factor - Factors based on characteristics or perspective originating from outside the place, commonly referred to as flows.
• Gentrification - Renovation of older/deteriorating buildings or areas with the aim of attracting high-income individuals or elite businesses to a place.
• Governance - The management of a place or group of people.
• Ethnic Clustering - Residential areas with similar cultures, ethnicity or religions. This may be to avoid isolation or to live locally to special services and facilities (places of worship, local shops, etc.)
• Idyll - A location with ideal living conditions and good qualities. Often based on a perception.
• Internal Migration - The movement of people within a country.
• Insiders - People who feel like they are ‘part of’ a place; they feel included within the place and have a strong connection to it.
• Life Expectancy - The average number of years an individual is likely to live, determined at birth.
• International Migration - The movement of people from one country to another.
• Media - The publishing of information and production of entertainment (e.g. BBC, local newspapers, radio stations).
• Media Places - Places an individual hasn’t visited but has a reputation based from media representation.
• Inequality - Differences in income, well-being and wealth between individuals, communities and society.
• Near Places - Places that feel close, physically or emotionally.
• Outsiders - People who feel like they are not ‘part of’ a place; they feel isolated and may not have a strong connection to the place.
• Perception - A person’s view of a place or issue based on feelings, experience and outside forces such as the media.
• Segregation - The separation of a group from other groups this can be through force or voluntarily. Segregation can often occur due to housing strategies or regeneration projects.
• Rebranding - Creating a new look or reputation for an area.
• ‘The Other’ - People of different background or identity to an individual.
• Social Clustering - Groups of people with similar background frequently living together.
• Social Exclusion - The inability of a group of people to become involved in the cultural activities of a place.
• Far Places - Places that feel distant, physically or emotionally.