ABSTRACT
Place is one of the central terms in Human Geography. It is a term that eludes easy definition and has been used in a number of disparate ways throughout Geography’s history (see Entrikin, 1991; Massey, 1993; Sack, 1997; Tuan, 1977). Place has been used as an alternative to ‘location’. Whilst location refers to position within a framework of abstract space, often indicated by ‘objective’ markers such as degrees of longitude and latitude, or distance from another location, place has come to refer to a mixture of ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ facets including location but adding other, more subtle, attributes of the world we inhabit. John Agnew (1987) has argued, for instance, that place consists of:
• location – a point in space with specific relations to other points in space
• locale – the broader context (both built and social) for social relations • sense of place – subjective feelings associated with a place.
