Place

Place is among the most complex geographical ideas. In human geography it has three meanings; a point on the earths surface; the locus of individual and group identity; and the scale of everyday life.

Place has not explicitly been a primary focus for physical geographers, although it has been implicit in much of the development of physical geography for more than a century. The description of place was essential as environments were explored.

In the wake of globalisation there have been renewed challenges to conceptualise place differences and place interdependence, instead of having a notion that different perceptions of place were discrete and singular, the metaphor of switiching points is slowly enabling us to see places, and the concept of place, as unique and connected.