AQA A Level Geography paper 2
Place - A location which has different meanings to various people.
Placemaking - The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social
interaction and improve a community's quality of life.
locale - Locations that are associated with everyday activities and are shaped by
the people, culture and customs within it.
Sense of place - the subjective and emotional attachment to a place which gives it
meaning.
Doreen Massey - Places are dynamic processes
Places have multiple identities
Places have no boundaries
Placelessness - Defined by geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of
place in the cultural landscape.
Positionality - Factors such as age, gender, race that influence how we perceive
different places.
, AQA A Level Geography paper 2
genius loci - the spirit of a place - develop a sense of place and suggests every
place has a unique spirit or atmosphere.
Clone town - settlements where the high street is dominated by chain stores-
placelessness. Globalisation has created these homogenised places.
Totnes, Devon - An area that is resisting the power of globalisation e.g. it's anti-
Costa campaign in 2012 that succeeded.
Bristol pound - A local currency that aims to encourage people to shop locally and
support independent businesses.
Glocalisation - The modification of global products and ideas to suit local
conditions. E.g. McDonald's have removed pork from the menu in Muslim
countries.
Near place - places that feel like home, where people would live in a similar way
to which we live. We feel secure and this has a prop for our identity. Form our
national identity as a country.
Place - A location which has different meanings to various people.
Placemaking - The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social
interaction and improve a community's quality of life.
locale - Locations that are associated with everyday activities and are shaped by
the people, culture and customs within it.
Sense of place - the subjective and emotional attachment to a place which gives it
meaning.
Doreen Massey - Places are dynamic processes
Places have multiple identities
Places have no boundaries
Placelessness - Defined by geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of
place in the cultural landscape.
Positionality - Factors such as age, gender, race that influence how we perceive
different places.
, AQA A Level Geography paper 2
genius loci - the spirit of a place - develop a sense of place and suggests every
place has a unique spirit or atmosphere.
Clone town - settlements where the high street is dominated by chain stores-
placelessness. Globalisation has created these homogenised places.
Totnes, Devon - An area that is resisting the power of globalisation e.g. it's anti-
Costa campaign in 2012 that succeeded.
Bristol pound - A local currency that aims to encourage people to shop locally and
support independent businesses.
Glocalisation - The modification of global products and ideas to suit local
conditions. E.g. McDonald's have removed pork from the menu in Muslim
countries.
Near place - places that feel like home, where people would live in a similar way
to which we live. We feel secure and this has a prop for our identity. Form our
national identity as a country.
