sense of place

is a process of 'interanimation' whereby, as places animate the ideas and feelings of persons who attend to them, these same ideas and feelings animate the places on which attention has been bestowed.

as places animate the ideas and feelings of persons who attend to them, these same ideas and feelings animate the places on which attention has been bestowed . . . this process of inter-animation is related directly to the fact that familiar places are experienced as inherently meaningful, their significance and value being found to reside in (and, it may seem, to emate

is created over time as the result of habit or custom.

something that we ourselves create in the course of time. It is the result of habit or custom' (1994: 5).

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)

is the subjective and emotional attachment people have to place.

the subjective and emotional attachment people have ot place

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sense of place