The Nature and Importance of Places

• Insider perspective


  The attitude of people that live or work within that place to their environment
• Outsider Perspective


  The attitude of people that do not know a place very well, to their environment
• Experienced place


  A site as it has been interpreted by a visitor or resident
• Media Place


  The particular representation of a town or a city as portrayed by communication outlets such as TV, radio, internet etc
• Endogenous factors


  Internal forces that contribute to the character of a place e.g. location, land use, and built infrastructure
• Exogenous factors


  External forces that contribute to the character of a place e.g. the links or ties a place may have to other places
• Social characteristics


  Qualities of the people of the place that contribute to a places identity e.g. political attitudes or ethnicity