mass culture

paradox of place

place

space

nationality

Canadian

occupation / innovator as

geographer

innovator in the field of

geography

place and placelessness

urban studies

is a form of increased mobility and mass values which dilute authentic relations to place.

forms of increased mobility and mass values which dilute authentic relations to place. (cresswell place, an introduction)

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is a kind of distinctiveness whereas placelessness is sameness.

is defined not by location or function or experience, but rather, defined largely unconsciously as profound centers of human existence.

The basic meaning of place, its essence, does not therefore come from locations, nor from the trivial functions that places serve, nor from the community that occupies it, nor from superficial or mundane experiences.. The essence of place lies in the largely unselfconscious intentionality that defines places as profound centers of human existence. (Relph 1976: 43)

is amorphous and intangible and not an entity that can be directly described and analyzed.

space is amorphous and intangible and not an entity that can be directly described and analysed. Yet, however, we feel or explain space, there is nearly always some associated sense or concept of place. In general it seems that space provides the context for places but derives it.s meaning from particular places. (Relph 1976,8)

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