Monday, October 6, 2008

The Genealogy of Place part 2

The second part of The Genealogy of Place goes over many points about meanings of place. First insight he covered was the idea of human mobilities and human acttivites defining a place. As he book reads “The mobilities of bodies combine in space and time to produce an existential insideness-a felling of belonging within the rhythm of life in place” the way people engage in everyday life and reutilized activities, the form of place changes. He also talked about how place provides a geographically specific set of structures. There are sets of rules and policies set by other previous agent that we most conform to in respect to different places. Other point he made was how place is evolving and they are always in progress. “Place is made and remade everyday” that they serve as platform for creativities and holding events. However, as an effect of rapid advancement in communication, increased mobility and a consumer society, places are loosing their uniqueness and their distinctive regional characteristics. This erosion of place is making it difficult for people to connect with world thorough space.