CSMP

• Place characteristics:

  Physical geography

  Demography

  Socio-economic

  Cultural

  Political

  Built environment
• A place has relevance and meaning and people can make a place
• Census= data obtained from a survey in mass AC by the government to have a better understanding
• Perception is the way in which something is regarded, understood or interpretated
• Gender

  Religion

  Age

  Sexuality

  Role performed
• Attachment to a place can be both negative and positive and people remember places in different ways. Memory is a personal thing because experiences are personal and subjective.
• Kurds are an ethnic group spreading across the Middle East (Turkey, Iran, Syria)

  30 million kurds

  Regarded as a terrorist group by west as they are fighting for their independence.

  1/4 are refugees