If Lower East Side Tenement Museum in one of the old buildings that they could be programmed with 'place' instead, with all the formally housed new immigrants. You could, in other words, see understanding that implies, they might decide to ditch in the desert. The gardens are the result of the efforts of immigrants and others to carve out a place from a little piece of Manhattan for their community to enjoy nature. Some of the community gardens - often the first to be leveled - are the sites of Casitas - little houses made by the Puerto Rican community to replicate similar buildings from 'home'.
They are draped with Puerto Rican flags and other symbols of elsewhere. Old men sit out in the sun watching baseball. Community meetings take place around these eight foot by ten foot buildings. They are, as the urban historian Delores Hayden puts it: a conscious choice by community organizers to construct the rurat preindustrial bohio Painted in coral, turquoise, or lemon yellow, these dwellings recall the colors of the Caribbean and evoke a memory of the homeland for immigrants who find themselves in Alphabet City or Spanish Harlem.
Hayden , Figure 1. Photo by author Other gardens, ones not planted by Puerto Rican immigrants, are more bucolic, replicating some ideal of an English garden. Yet others are wild nature reserves set aside for local school lessons on biology and ecology. All of these are examples of the ongoing and diverse creation of places - sites of history and identity in the city. Meanwhile back in Tompkins Square Park there are still tensions between the needs of the homeless to have even the smallest and most insecure 'place-for the night' and the desires of some local residents to have what they see as an attractive and safe place to live and raise families - one that does not include the homeless.
Again places are being made, maintained and contested. New York and Manhattan are places. The Lower East Side is a place. The Tenement Museum, community gardens and Tompkins Square Park are all part of the rich tapestry of place making that make up the area in and around We will return to the Lower East Side throughout the book to illustrate the many facets of the use of 'place' in geography.
Allover the world people are engaged in place-making activities. Homeowners redecorate, build additions, manicure the lawn. Neighborhood organizations put pressure on people to tidy their yards; city governments legislate for new public buildings to express the spirit of particular places.
Nations project themselves to the rest of Figure 1. People the world through postage stamps, money, parliament buildings, invest a lot in the places they create and were understandably angry at the demolition. Photo by author national stadia, tourist brochures, etc. Just as the new student climbs on the bed to put the poster on the wall so the Kosovan Muslim flies a new flag, erects a new monument and redraws the map.
Graffiti artists write their tags in flowing script on the walls of the city. This is their place too. So what links these examples: a child's room, an urban garden, a market town, New York City, Kosovo and the Earth? What makes them all places and not simply a room, a garden, a town, a world city, a new nation and an inhabited planet? One answer is that they are all spaces which people have made meaningful.
They are all spaces people are attached to in one way or another. This is the most straightforward and common definition of place - a meaningful location.
The political geographer John Agnew has outlined three fundamental aspects of place as a'meaningfullocation'. Sense of place. Figure 1. Perhaps the most obvious point is that all of the places mentioned above Photo by author are located. They have fixed objective co-ordinates on the Earth's surface or in the Earth's case a specific location vis-a.
New York is 'here' and Kosovo is 'there'. Given the appropriate scale we could find them on a map. The word place is often used in everyday language to simply refer to location. When we use place as a verb for instance where should I place this?
But places are not always stationary. A ship, for instance, may become a special kind of place for people who share it on a long voyage, even though its location is constantly changing. By 'locale' Agnew means the material setting for social relations - the actual shape of place within which people conduct their lives as individuals, as men or women, as white or black, straight or gay.
It is clear that places almost always have a concrete form. New York is a collection of buildings and roads and public spaces including the community gardens which are themselves material - made of plants and statues and little sheds and houses with fences around them.
The child's room has four walls, a window, a door, and a closet. Places then, are material things. Even imaginary places, like Hogwarts School in Harry Potter novels, have an imaginary materiality of rooms, staircases and tunnels that make the novel work. As well as being located and having a material visual form, places must have some Figure 1.
Note the Puerto Rican flag hanging in the porch and the masks on the wall. Immigrant Puerto Rican groups in New York City place these in their community relationship to humans and the human capacity to produce and gardens to recreate something of the place they came from - to make themselves 'feel at home'.
Photo consume meaning. By'sense of place' Agnew means the subjective and by author emotional attachment people have to place. We often have a sense of shore. Alongside his travel narrative he tells of the voyage of the place about where we live, or where we lived when we were children. This is what the author Lucy Lippard has called The Lure of the Local Vancouver's task was to map the coast and name it as he went - Lippard It is commonplace in Western societies in the twenty- making it a place of empire.
Naming is one of the ways space can be first Century to bemoan a loss of a sense of place as the forces of given meaning and become place. Vancouver's journal reports the globalization have eroded local cultures and produced homogenized seemingly nonsensical movements of natives in their canoes in the sea global spaces.
We will return to this issue of 'placelessness' in Chapter 2. Rather then taking a direct line from point A to point B Agnew's three-part definition of place certainly accounts for most the natives would take complicated routes that had no apparent logic. While the colonialists looked at the sea and saw with the word 'place'. Two world-views were in collision; and the poverty of white accounts of Space and Place these canoe journeys reflect the colonialists' blindness to the native sea.
They didn't get it - couldn't grasp the fact that for Indians the water was a An advertisement for a large furniture shop in my Sunday paper read place, and the great bulk of the land was undifferentiated space. Their whole focus was directed toward the land: and yet it speaks to one of the central themes in the development of its natural harbours, its timber, its likely spots for settlement and the discipline.
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