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| - | [[Image:Theatre from Ars Memoriae by Robert Fludd.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Ars Memoriae]]'': The [[Theatre]] ([[1619]]) - [[Robert Fludd]]]] | + | [[Image:Carte du tendre.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The ''[[Map of Tendre]]'' (''Carte du Tendre'') is a French map of an [[imaginary country]] called ''[[Tendre]]''. It shows a geography entirely based around the theme of [[love]]]][[Image:Theatre from Ars Memoriae by Robert Fludd.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Ars Memoriae]]'': The [[Theatre]] ([[1619]]) - [[Robert Fludd]]]] |
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| '''Place''' is a term that has a variety of meanings in a dictionary sense, but which is principally used in a [[geographic]] sense as a noun to denote location, though in a sense of a location identified with that which is located there. For instance, much has been written about the "[[sense of place]]", a well-known [[phenomenon]] in human society in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location. [[Place identity]] concerns significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants and users. Another instance of its use is as an identifier of a location that is noted for a particular characteristic, such as [[Stonehenge]] defining its location as a unique '''place'''. | '''Place''' is a term that has a variety of meanings in a dictionary sense, but which is principally used in a [[geographic]] sense as a noun to denote location, though in a sense of a location identified with that which is located there. For instance, much has been written about the "[[sense of place]]", a well-known [[phenomenon]] in human society in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location. [[Place identity]] concerns significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants and users. Another instance of its use is as an identifier of a location that is noted for a particular characteristic, such as [[Stonehenge]] defining its location as a unique '''place'''. | ||
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Place is a term that has a variety of meanings in a dictionary sense, but which is principally used in a geographic sense as a noun to denote location, though in a sense of a location identified with that which is located there. For instance, much has been written about the "sense of place", a well-known phenomenon in human society in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location. Place identity concerns significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants and users. Another instance of its use is as an identifier of a location that is noted for a particular characteristic, such as Stonehenge defining its location as a unique place.
See also
- Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space.
- Sense of place
- Spirit of place
- "Space is the Place" by Sun Ra
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