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place

etymology

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is a kind of distinctiveness whereas placelessness is sameness.

fundamental aspects of place as a 'meaningful location'. 1. Location. 2. Locale. 3. Sense of place.

is, along with other so-called small things such as nutrition, climate, and recreation inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

These small things nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. Friedrich Nietzsche

is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. (Carl Andre)

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 not conceivable without space, and vice versa. From the security and stability of place we are aware of the openness, freedom, and threat of space, and vice versa.

Both our physical environment-- buildings and roads, for instance-- and our moral-ethical system are cultural artifacts, works of the imagination that Tuan calls 'edifices.' (from the back of the book). ''That begins as undifferentiated space becomes place as we get to know it betler and endow it with value. . . . The ideas 'space' and 'place' require each other for definition. From the security and stability of place we are aware of the openness, freedom, and threat of space, and vice versa. Furthermore, if we think of space as that which allows movement, then place is pause... each pause in movement makes it possible for location to be transformed into place. (Tuan 1977,6)

is not defined by its isolation, but through a places connections with other places.

Places are made through their connections with each other, not their isolation:' (Tsing 2000 ')

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