Test

• A place is only as good as the people in it: 'Pittacus Lore'
• Place


  A location with meaning
• Places come by their meanings and identities as a result of the complex intersections of culture and context that occur within that specific location
• An individual is not too distinct from his place. He is his place: 'Gabriel Marcel'
• Place

  • It is a very important concept in Geography, one of the cornerstones of it as a subject
  • It underpins many of the other topics covered in Advanced level geography
• Big Geographical questions to consider through this unit

  • What is a place?
  • What turns a space into a place?
  • What factors, human and physical, influence the character of places?
  • What different categories of place exist?
  • How can different people perceive places in different ways?
  • How is your Local place different from places that are geographically far away (geographically distant)?
  • How is your local place different from places that economically, socially and culturally distant?
  • How do agencies try to manipulate our ideas and thoughts about place?
  • What impact have globalizing forces had upon places?
  • How does pace impact upon the quality of life of people living there?
  • How are places linked together via their relationships and connections?
  • Why do places change over time?
  • How can we use qualitative and quantitative sources to investigate place?
• Space


  Somewhere that is unknown, unfamiliar, like looking at tourist board photos or images on the Internet
• Sense of Place


  The subjective and emotional attachment people have to places, based upon their experiences, knowledge and connections with a place
• Location


  Where a place is, often related to by coordinates on a map
• Locale


  Where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it, taking into account the impact people have on a location
• Middlesbrough


  • Location: on a flood plain on the banks of the river Tees in the North East of England
  • Locale: famed for its Industry, dubbed the "Infant Hercules" by parliamentarian Gladstone in 1862, now trying to become a post-industrial city
  • Sense of Place: strong personal affection for the town's football club, creating a sense of identity and community
• Ground Zero


  • Location: site of the former World Trade Centre in New York
  • Sense of Place: memorial to the victims of a terrorist attack, with emotional attachment for many people
  • Tourist Gaze: the set of expectations that tourists place on local populations when they participate in heritage tourism, in the search for having an "authentic" experience