GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Geopolitics
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A much richer concept than location (a position in some sort of a spatial grid) For a place to be a place, it must have meaning. It is in that sense that strip malls and box stores have been described as placeless. The meaning of place is linked to human experience. Place involve a physical bounding (the classroom, the neighborhood); and a social bounding the interrelationships that explode and define physical space. As embodied being we exist in place and we experience the world through place and the interplay of out intelligence and our self. I keep places as the space of experience and space as the realm for comparisons and identifying spatial relationships. The extension need not be merely physical. This is not simple as who we are shifts and changes over time and indeed with context. No relationship at all between you identifies in different contexts would probably be pathological.
