2024 Exam
Questions and Answers
Place - Answer>> A location which has different meanings to
various people.
Placemaking - Answer>> The deliberate shaping of an
environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a
community's quality of life.
locale - Answer>> Locations that are associated with everyday
activities and are shaped by the people, culture and customs
within it.
Sense of place - Answer>> the subjective and emotional
attachment to a place which gives it meaning.
Doreen Massey - Answer>> Places are dynamic processes
Places have multiple identities
Places have no boundaries
Placelessness - Answer>> Defined by geographer Edward
Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural
landscape.
Positionality - Answer>> Factors such as age, gender, race that
influence how we perceive different places.
genius loci - Answer>> the spirit of a place - develop a sense of
place and suggests every place has a unique spirit or
atmosphere.
, Clone town - Answer>> settlements where the high street is
dominated by chain stores- placelessness. Globalisation has
created these homogenised places.
Totnes, Devon - Answer>> An area that is resisting the power
of globalisation e.g. it's anti-Costa campaign in 2012 that
succeeded.
Bristol pound - Answer>> A local currency that aims to
encourage people to shop locally and support independent
businesses.
Glocalisation - Answer>> 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 - Answer>> 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.
Far place - Answer>> Places we see as foreign, alien and
different.
Experienced place - Answer>> Places we have been to and
developed our own sense of place, emotional attachment, change
previous perceptions, genius loci.
Media place - Answer>> Places we have formed a perception
of based on what we see in the media, makes world seem
smaller, more understanding of the world.