GEOG 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Allan Pred, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Uprising
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Yi fu tan: author that attempted to explain the difference between. Place --> considered a difficult word to define, particularly as a concept. Been central to geography but there has been considerable difficult in conceptualizing place and representing places. The inability to describe and explain what a place is like. Place is one of the crucial ways in which we navigate the world. Places provide spatial cues (they give us prompts on what to expect and how to behave), they may take on the form of: The meanings that are attached to places, also applies to. Generic sites --> e. g. schools, supermarkets, mosques and the modes of conduct expected and sanctioned there. Particular places --> e. g. places that are made to invoke particular connotations (such as downtown eastside, Power, place and identity-formation --> the way in which we attach ourselves to certain places. Ultimately, places creates our identity and relates in the power that is exerted upon one another.
