Definitions

• Place: a location created by human experiences
• Space: a location which has no social connections for a human being (no value has been added to this space - Tuan 1977)
• Location: a particular point or place in a physical space
• Locale: the place where something happens
• Experienced places: places a person has spent time in
• Media places: places a person has only read about
• Insider: people who feel welcomed within a place
• Outsider: people who do not belong to a place
• Localism: how you feel and respond to things in your local area
• Regionalism: how you feel and respond to things in your region
• Nationalism: how you feel and respond to things in your country
• Descriptive theoretical approach: the world is made up of a set of places, each has physical and human characteristics
• Social constructionist theoretical approach: places are a product of social processes occurring at a particular time and place and it is this that gives meaning to the place
• Phenomenological theoretical approach: places are defined through human experiences
• Sense of place theoretical approach: places are dynamic with multiple identities and no boundaries
• Cultural theoretical approach: places are given meaning by the traces that exist in them - physical traces such as buildings and historic monuments and emotional traces such as events
• Exogenous factors: factors based on characteristics or perspective originating from outside the place, commonly referred to as flows.
• Endogenous factors: factors based on local characteristics or perspective originating from inside the place
• Perception of a place: a person’s view of a place or issue based on feelings, experience and outside forces such as the media.
• Sense of place: the subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place. People develop a 'sense of place' through experience and knowledge of a particular area
• Placemaking: the deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community's quality of life
• Far Place: places that feel distant, physically or emotionally
• Near Place: places that feel close, physically or emotionally
• Glocalisation: unique sense of place