ABSTRACT
PLACE AS AN ASPECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY
Place is a simple enough concept until you begin to think about how places are experienced, and then there is very little about it which seems entirely clear or unambiguous. As a geographical concept it refers to named localities, and it is this meaning which stands behind the frequently used definition of geography as the study of places, a definition with a robust life that has endured throughout the twothousand-year history of the discipline. Until recently it was considered unnecessary to elaborate upon the meaning of the word ‘place’; it was straightforward and self-evident.
