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Sense of place. The term sense of place has been used in many different ways. It is a multidimensional, complex construct used to characterize the relationship between people and spatial settings. [ 1] It is a characteristic that some geographic places have and some do not, [ 2] while to others it is a feeling or perception held by people (not ...
Place and Placelessness, first published in 1976 and reissued in 2010, is a phenomenological account of how places are experienced and how they are changing. It was one of the first books that explicitly examined the idea of place, and also one of the first phenomenological studies in geography.
Place identity or place-based identity refers to a cluster of ideas about place and identity in the fields of geography, urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, interior design, spatial design, environmental psychology, ecocriticism and urban sociology/ecological sociology. Place identity is sometimes called urban character ...
Non-place or nonplace is a neologism coined by the French anthropologist Marc Augé to refer to anthropological spaces of transience where human beings remain anonymous, and that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places" in their anthropological definition. Examples of non-places would be motorways, [ 1] hotel rooms, airports ...
David Seamon. ZProf. David Seamon (born 14 April 1948) [1] is an American geographer, phenomenologist, author and academic. Seamon in known for his work on the theory of architectural phenomenology, [2] environmental phenomenology, and environmental design as placemaking. He is the editor of the Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology ...
Many times such scarves are attached to places of particular interest or significance. Place attachment is the emotional bond between person and place, [ 1] and one way of describing the relationship between people and spatial settings. [ 2] It is highly influenced by an individual and his or her personal experiences. [ 3]
Critical regionalism. Critical regionalism is an approach to architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of identity of the International Style, but also rejects the whimsical individualism and ornamentation of Postmodern architecture. The stylings of critical regionalism seek to provide an architecture rooted in the modern ...
Orientation (mental) Orientation is a function of the mind involving awareness of three dimensions: time, place and person. [ 1] Problems with orientation lead to dis orientation, and can be due to various conditions. It ranges from an inability to coherently understand person, place, time, and situation, to complete orientation.