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Place

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More than its physical location, a place is space given meaning(s) by people.

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Location

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Where a place is on a map, its latitude and longitude

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Locale

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The place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it. We behave in a particular way in these places, according to the social rules we understand.

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Sense of place

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The subjective and emotional attachment to a place, its meaning.

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Perception of place

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The way in which place is viewed or regarded by people.

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Descriptive approach

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The idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct

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Social constructionist approach

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Sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time

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Phenomological approach

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Is not interested in the unique characteristics of a place or why it was constructed. Instead it is interested in how an individual person experiences place.

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Identity

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Who a person is, both in terms of how others view them, and how they see themselves.
A person’s identity is shaped, in party, by where they live and /or their place of birth (their homeland).

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Belonging

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To be part of the community.

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Insiders

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Someone who feels like they belong in a place and identifies with it.

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Outsiders

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Someone who does not feel like they belong in a place.

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In place

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Something that belongs within a place.

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Out of place

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Something that does not or does not feel like it belongs in a place.

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Localism

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An affection for or emotional ownership of a particular place.

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Regionalism

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Consciousness of, and loyalty to, a distinct region with a population that shares similarities

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Nationalism

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Loyalty and devotion to a nation, which creates a sense of national consciousness. Patriotism could be considered as an example of a sense of place.

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Placemaking

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The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life.

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Clone town

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Settlements where the high street is dominated by chain stores

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Homogenised places

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Places that have become indistinct from one another through the process of making things uniform or similar.

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Localisation

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A greater focus on ‘local’ place and the promotion of local goods and services.

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Glocalisation

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Products or services that are distributed globally but which are fashioned to appeal to the consumers in a local market.

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Well-being

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The state of being comfortable, healthy or happy.

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Globalisation

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A process why which national economies, societies and cultures have become increasingly integrated through the global network of trade, communication, transportation and immigration.

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Placelessness

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The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.

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Tourist gaze

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What a visitor sees or experiences of a place of interest. To some extent, it is organised or edited by professionals in the tourist industry.

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Nimbyism

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Where people living within a place are more likely to oppose developments in it.

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Far places

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could refer to somewhere far in terms of the geographical distance
Equally could describe a particular place that a person feels uncomfortable in and doesn’t have an emotional connection with

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Near place

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could refer to somewhere close in terms of the geographical distance
Equally could describe a particular place that a person feels comfortable in and has a close emotional connection with.

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Experienced place

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places that a person has spent time in

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Media places

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places that a person has only read about or seen on film or TV.

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Endogenous factor

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the local demographic characteristics and the physical geography of a place. They have originated internally These help to shape its unique character.

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Exogenous factor

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the relationships of one place with other places and the external factors which affect this

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Genius Loci

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Spirit of a place

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Topophilia

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Strong attachment to a place

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Topophobia

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A dread or adverse reaction to a place

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Attachment

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An emotional bond

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Social exclusion

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Making certain groups of people within a society feel like outsiders

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Positionality

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Factors that influence how we perceive different places

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Agents of place

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The people who impact on a place through living, working or tryng to improve it

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Social housing

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Meaning

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Individual or collective perceptions of place

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Representation

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How a place is portrayed or ‘seen’ in society

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First space representations

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Second space representations

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Third space representations

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Place marketing

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When marketing or PR companies nay be employed by national and local government to improve or create positive perceptions of place

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Rebranding

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The way in which a place is re-developed and marketed so that it gains a new identity

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Re-imaging

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Disassociating a place from bad pre-existing images

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Regeneration

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A long term process involving redevelopment and the use of social, economic and environmental action to reserve urban decline and create sustainable communities

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Stakeholders

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Corporate body

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An organisation or group of persons identified by a particular name

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Heritage tourism

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Reliability

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How accurate or useful a particular source is

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Provenance

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The context in which a source of text was produced and information about its creator, their wider view and those of their patrons

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Big data

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Extremely large datasets from which we can learn a great deal with effective analysis

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Objective

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Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts

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Subjective

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Based on influence by personal feelings, tastes or opinions

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Qualitative data

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Information that is non-numerical and used in a relatively unstructured and open-ended way

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Quantitative data

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Data that can be quantified and verified and is statistically amenable to statistical manipulation

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Counter-mapping

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A bottom-up process by which people produce their own maps, informed by their own local knowledge and understanding of places

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