ABSTRACT

As we have seen cultural geography is all about taking and making place. Every action we engage in contributes to the cultural world, leaving a trace that affects the identity of who we are and where we are. We have seen in the previous chapter how our ideas and ideals about place – how we think places should be and what traces are appropriate in them – affect our actions in place. Places come to be ordered and bordered in line with our ideas as regulations are constructed to classify places for particular people and uses.