approaches to place
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- Approaches to place
- john Agnew
- believes that for a space to become a place then three elements must be fulfilled: location, locale and sense of place
- believed that is is crucial that all of the three conditions are considered in order to avoid the development of generalisations and sterotypes
- Doreen Massey
- place has multiples identities and there is simply no single identity associated with a specific place
- place identity is strongly correlated with a sense of place developed in relation to our home
- place identity is developed as a result of the meaning and significance of places of the inhabitants involved
- place identity may help to determine if individuals are regionalists, localists or nationalists
- places act as systems without an inside and outside
- Descriptive approach
- explores how the world is a set of places. each place can be studied and is distinct
- social constructionism approach
- place is a product of a particualr set of social processes occurring at a particular time
- Yi Fu Tuan
- the importance of the phenomenological approach
- space is a location that has no social connection or human activity permeating throughout it
- space has no meaning
- place is a centre for people to fulfil their biological needs and requirements
- place is besides a visible expressions of specific time period
- phenomenological approach
- the interested in the unique character of the area or the construction of the place
- considers how the individual experiences place and the highly personal relationship between place and person
- places are dynamic regions in which people ideas and infrastructure come together
- john Agnew
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