I Defining Place
P1
Human geography is the study of places
Place is not a specialized piece of academic terminology.
…this suggests ownership or some kind of connection between a person and a particular location or building. It also suggests a notion of privacy and belonging.
P2
1st paragraph
Author quotes several saying related the word space and its relation to socio-geographical structure.
2nd paragraph
Author shows a situation of you are entering a dormitory room first time to explain ownership,uniqueness and the hauntings of a space.
3rd paragraph
Space and Place
P10
Space, then, has been seen in distinction to place as a realm without meaning..When humans invest meaning in a portion of space and then become attached to it in some way(naming is one such way) it becomes a place.
Place and Landscape
P10
Landscape is an intensely visual idea.In most definitions of landscape the viewer is outside of it. This is the primary way which it differs from place.
P11
We do not live in landscapes – we look at them
Place as a Way of Understanding
..place is also a way of seeing, knowing and understanding the world.
The remainder of the Book
Social space is clearly very close to the definition of place.
For now it suffices to say that the majority of writing about place focuses on the realm of meaning and experience.
2 The Genealogy of Place
P15
One confusing aspect of the genealogy of place is that place stands for both an object(a thing that geographers and others look at, research and write about) and a way of looking.