Place Intro

The intro to this book had some interesting ideas that the author had collected from other sources, and the one i liked best was Yi-Fu Taun's description of place. His idea of a place versus a space was that a place was simply a space where you pause for something, thous bestowing it with meaning and making it a place. Space is the empty and unmeaningful void that exists between spaces; it is what we travel through to reach one place from another. This better than all the other grasps at defining the idea of place struck me to be the most true. Anywhere can be a space if we don't care about it. Ideas of place and space are very personal and a very biased in their nature. It is entirely based on the experience and feelings of the individual. Places are differnet to everyone in them. The idea that your places, like the room you live in, have been different places for many other people, people you will never know, and they hold many meanings for reasons you will never understand. People need to make the spaces they inhabit their own places, they need to nest, to make themselves comfortable, to be happy. The nebulous concept of place wether we can define it or not is something we all understand.