ABSTRACT
The term “place” is hard to define with intelligence and clarity, even if it is used mostly in a generic sense in ordinary conversations. A place appears on the “scene” as a concrete reality in our mind when it is retrieved from personal memory or feelings affiliated with specific or dominant features of an environment. Place is often conceived as the perceptual and existential space and as a center of meanings within the lived-space of the everyday social world. 1 It also is rendered with individually secretive and intimate stories, but at the same time, it is related and responsive to its physical and social context.
