GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Placemaking, The Emotions
17 Apr 2018
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A concept with two levels of meaning: an objective location that has both uniqueness and interdependence with other places, a subjective social and cultural construct somewhere that has personal meaning for individuals or groups. Places in and of themselves do not exist they become: they are always existing in social and cultural fields. Their locations may be objective, even their physical attributes, but their nature as places is a creation of someone: us, planners, politicians, the business community. Meanings are defined by: behaviour doing things appropriate to the space, rules doing what is expected of you. Image doing what you expect of the place. Places are also collections of memories, your own and other peoples. A caf can become a welcome or unwelcome place. The [murmur] project is an exercise in creating sense of place through shared (cid:373)e(cid:373)ories . The murmur project started in toronto in 2003 and provides oral histories of various places using your cell phone.
