sense of place

is the fusion of an interpretive perspective on the environment and an emotional reaction to the environment.

people's subjective perceptions of their environments and their more or less conscious feelings about those environments. Sense of place is inevitably dual in nature, involving both an interpretive perspective on the environment and an emotional reaction to the environment. [ . . . ] Sense of place involves a personal orientation toward place, in which one's understanding of place and one's feelings about place become fused in the context of environmental meaning. (1992: 6)

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