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Sense of Place
subjective, personal, emotional attachment to place.
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Tourist Gaze
organised by business, e.g. death sites; Auschwitz and G0
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Near Place & Far Place
Geographical and emotional; map, specific place, no meaning.
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Experienced Place
places that we experience personally
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Media Place
place experienced through media e.g. books, films, tv, music, radio.
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Placelessness
e.g. airport can be anywhere as it lacks uniqueness.
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Endogenous
Topography, land use, location, infrastructure, builds, demographic, physical geo, economic characteristics.
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Exogenous
external factors, influenced by other places e.g. migration and investments.
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Insider perspective
first hand experience of place normally over a long period of time/ if they speak lang/ were born in place.
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Outsider perspective
short period of time, don't speak local lang, lack of connections.
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Location
where on a map- latitude, longitude.
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Locale
where everyday activities take place, are social interactions e.g. office, park, church.
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Yi Fu Tua
understanding &attachment grow with age.
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Forces of change
international, national & global institutions, gov (local and national), TNCS, individuals, communities.
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GLASGOW known as, had a key role in, life expectancy..
stabbing & knifing capital, key role in slave trade, life increases 7-10 years from moving away.
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GLASGOW regeneration and investment
more affordable housing in top 8 most deprived, city centre- largest and most successful shopping destination outside London attracting investment, 90 million shoppers spend £2.4 bil a year.
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GLASGOW 'People Make Glasgow'
Formulate rebranding plan by asking Glaswegians around the globe; 1,500 from 42 countries. £500k a year to develop and promote across the UK.
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STRATFORD history;
Carpenters Estate est 19thC, targeted during WWII due to proximity to rail roads and factories, lack of funding- rundown.
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NEWHAM is...
One of London's most deprived boroughs.
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STRATFORD, OLYMPIC REGENERATION 2012
Athlete village= jobs and housing (East Village), Olympic Park= tidied polluted ground/ brownfield/ where factories used to be.
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STRATFORD- population/ people count
Predominantly white, near equal Black and Asian at Carpenters Estate and Westfield.
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STRATFORD- opinions of residents
Areas not what it once was, still want more improvements.
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STRATFORD- EX RESIDENT OPINION
Previously factories everywhere, only women worked in sweet factories, children wanted work on trains, dads work at docks. 96k employed at docks, community was important. Wouldn't want to move back.
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BOURNEVILLE- agents of change
Est 1851, Cadbury built housing for workers, and college costing £66 million, located in Birmingham. An idyllic village, rules about drinking, school for workers' children.
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BRICK LANE- history
Was a slum, now shopping opportunities & markets, best known for Irish and Jewish pop. Name derived from brick and tile manufacturing in 15th C. Now predominantly Bangladeshi.
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BRICK LANE- pull factors
mobility due to air transport, 1980s Britain was a country of net emigration with more people leaving than arriving.
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BRICK LANE- Chapel
1742- Chapel- Huguenot, Jewish, Christian, Methodist, now Great London Mosque.
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SOUTHEND- history
og small fishing village, London effect= pop inc. 174,800 residents, 5,635 businesses, 63,500 jobs.
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SOUTHEND- Seaside town, rails, visitors from
Closest seaside town to London, two railway lines, traditionally drew visitors from East London.
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SOUTHEND- private investment & Victoria Avenue Regeneration
London Southend Airport by Stobart. Victoria Avenue; part of £35mill SE project, new roundabout and much more pedestrianised, statue commissioned and installed (made by French man).
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SOUTHEND- seafront city of culture
£3.5 mill repairing landslides, pavements widened, Golden Mile, £2mill on lighting and children fountain area.
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SOUTHEND- transport development
£130 mill in London Southend Airport, C2C and GA rails, A127 and A13 all to London, £3.3 mill on improving traffic flows.
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MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA- size, capital, issues
2nd largest state, industrial capital, violence, crime, poverty.
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MEDELLIN COLOMBIA- rebranding
sustainable investment in infrastructure and education.
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POUNDBURY, DORSET- Prince Charles
'Sheer unadulterated ugliness and mediocrity of public and commercial buildings'- is famously outspoken r.e. British Architecture.
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POUNDBURY, DORSET- rules for development from HRHPC
developments must respect the land, materials matter, pedestrians must be at the centre of the design process.
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HEATHROW, LONDON-business, wealthy passengers
one of the worlds busiest international airports, 40% of passengers are wealthy.
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HEATHROW, LONDON- cost of T5
£43 billion, 15 years from planning to completion, 6 years to build, 6,000 workers employed for construction, has capacity of T1-4 combined.
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HEATHROW, LONDON- flying rules
Night time flying not allowed after 10pm or before 6am with some exceptions. Planes pass every 90 seconds.
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HEATHROW, LONDON- arguments for T5
rapid growth in air travel, reputation, airport capacity, competition with europe, importance as a global hub, local economic value, wider significance, tourism.
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HEATHROW, LONDON- arguments against T5
economic, noise pollution, greenbelt loss, pollution, rail instead, air pollution on the M25.
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Index of multiple deprivation
income, employment, health, education, barriers to housing and services, living environment, crime.
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Place shape identity?
our sense of place (meaning we give to place) can be so strong that it features a central part of our identity. Ethnicity, language, faith, lived experience also impact.
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Lived experience is shaped by
transport, access, born and bred, surrounding family, schools, greenery, work availability, age- opportunities and facilities, culture, housing, entertainment.
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Globalisation
Multinational companies (e.g. McDonalds) adapt products to local market place e.g. beef removed from menu in Muslim countries.
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Globalisation affect on place importance
Less important as global capitalism erodes local cultures and produced identical places, e.g. Starbucks.
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Character of place
Refers to physical and human features that help to distinguish it from another place.
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Agents of change
The people who impact on a place whether through living, working or trying to improve a place.
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Factors with greatest influence on place character;
Economic factors, migration. e.g. conflict in Syria, terrorism NY 9/11. Industrial accidents e.g. Chernobyll nuclear meltdown. Natural disasters e.g. New Orleans. Climate Change in Maldives.
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'Socially constructed' places;
Places can be shaped by the actions of people and groups, e.g. National Institutions; National Trust, Local Government; Southend City Beach, Transnational Corporations; Tesco/ McDonalds.
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DETROIT- lakes, steel belt, migration
links lake Huron and Erie. Steel belt boom due to growth of home-grown companies manufactured for across the USA. Migration of millions of afro Americans travelled from southern states for new jobs in automotive industry.
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DETROIT- Push factor, pull factor and when migration happened
Push; KKK, Pull; car industry meant there were more jobs. Migration; 1910-70 of Afro Americans.
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Corporate Bodies
group/ organisation that operates as a single name and is often treated as its own entity.
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Rebranding
give a place a new meaning, in order to boost tourism, change view/ perspective, improve employment, pedestrianise, history, improve transport.
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Diaspora
Scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic locale. Movement of population from its homeland.
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Gentrification
Process of renovation/ revival of deteriorated urban neighbourhood by means of influx of more affluent residents- increase in property value and displacement of lower income families and small businesses.
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UK Census
a demographic snapshot of the whole nation taken every 10 years. An example of big data.
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Tourist Gaze

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organised by business, e.g. death sites; Auschwitz and G0

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Near Place & Far Place

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Experienced Place

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Media Place

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