Forces for Change in Place

What are the examples of forces for change in place?

• The wide range of different individuals, community groups, companies, governments, national and international institutions that influence the place-making process

• The wide range of changes that can take place within a place including physical (geology and landscape) and human (migration and demographics)

What is rebranding?

• A process to change and improve an area of a city in which large numbers of people of a particular minority ethnic group live (a ghetto)

• A process to rename and reimage a location to boost footfall, investment and the wider social and economic prospects of a place.

Exogenous factors are

• A key aspect of a place’s local geography (physical or human) that helps to shape its unique character e.g. geology or economic characteristics

• A relationship with another place/s that help to shape the unique character of a place e.g. membership of the European Union.

An insider of a place is.....

• An immigrant; might not be able to work there; homesick; feels alienated; not fluent in local language.

• Born there; fluent in the local language; understands the local social norms; feels safe and secure.

What is objectivity?

• When data or evidence IS influenced by people’s opinions

• When data or evidence IS NOT influenced by people’s opinions

What are examples of demographic characteristics?

• When the proportion of a group participating in an activity is significantly lower than the proportion should be, according to whole population statistics.

• The characteristics of a population, such as whether it is ageing or youthful, and its ethnic make-up

Endogenous factors are

• A relationship with another place/s that help to shape the unique character of a place e.g. membership of the European Union.

• A key aspect of a place’s local geography (physical or human) that helps to shape its unique character e.g. geology or economic characteristics

What is placelessness?

• The idea that a place cannot be mapped due to changing nature of the infrastructure

• The idea that a particular landscape ‘could be anywhere’ because it lacks unique features.

What is geospatial data?

• It has a spatial or geographic component, meaning it can be mapped; pieces of digital data may have explicit geographic positioning information linked to them, such as geo-referenced satellite images

• Contemporary term used to describe extremely large datasets from which we can learn a lot if only we can analyse them effectively

What is qualitative data?

• Data that can only be organised into descriptive categories that are not numerical.

• Numerical data to which different techniques of statistical analysis may be applied to test a hypothesis