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image and identity
Attachment
Attachment is a bond between an individual and a community/place. People with different levels of attachment will view a place differently. The following factors can affect attachment:
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Studentification describes the concentration of young adults around post-16 educational establishments in urban areas. They often live in multiple occupancy housing.
People may feel very attached or not very attached to this kind of arrangement depending on their person interests
stage of life cycle : Young adults may prefer to live in locations where work, shops and leisure facilities are close by. But these experiences may not be as strong as the memories created when living with family.
Older people and young families may prefer a more secluded space with open land.
memories
Attachment can come with long-term association with a place, often based on memories.
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But people can be attached to a 'homeland' or an ideology, e.g a nation where they have never lived. This implies heritage or a sense of identity may also be important.
People like familiar things. So the longer they have lived somewhere, the more they may feel attached to it.
If you live somewhere longer, then you are likely to have more memories. But if all your memories are negative, then you may not feel too attached to the place.
gender
Gender is perhaps not as influential in developed societies as in the past, but stereotypes about women working in the home may persist in some cultures.
Some workplaces are still dominated by one gender – mining and finance are dominated by men and nursing is dominated by women.
The perception of ‘safety’ (or lack of it) in some urban areas still impacts on gender – e.g. train carriages or dark alleys at night may be more likely to affect women and their feeling of attachment relative to men
Lived Experience
Lived experience of a place involves the feelings and personal history of living in a certain place. Lived experience can vary hugely across people and it can impact people's engagement with a place.
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local election turnout
Local election turnout is a piece of evidence about a population's engagement with the local community.
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This may be because people do not engage with local communities or it could be that people do not feel that local elections affect their lives or communities.
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image and identity
All places have an image which they project and this shapes people’s perceptions of the place as either positive or negative.
Young people may feel they want to leave a place with a poor image and are attracted to places with positive images e.g. moving from Slough to London.
There may be more job opportunities in places with attractive images, because companies, like people are attracted there.
Image and Identity
All places have an image which they project and this shapes people’s perceptions of the place as either positive or negative.
There are likely to be more job opportunities in places with attractive images because companies, like people, are attracted there.
young people
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Their identity may be affected if they perceive they are living in an area that has a positive or negative image.
Young people may feel they want to leave a place with a poor image and are attracted to places with positive images.