What constitutes a sense of place?

Question

Where is a place that is significant to you?

Why is it significant to you?

What factors have been important to how you understand this place? How is your understanding of this place reflected by the language in which you use to describe it?

How might others from different cultures view this place differently to yourself?

In general, what constitutes a 'sense of place'?

Answer 1

"...Place is not just a matter of real estate or landed property; it is intellectual property, cultural property. This is hardly a fixed system of coordinates, rather it is a relational network of differences which provides the principle and rationale for movement between places and regions. Rather than a fixed structure, the process of spatialisation is a fluid and contested horizon of meanings..."