Thoughts to consider...

'.. the significance of place depends on the issue under consideration and the sets of social relationships that are relevant to the issue' (McDowell, 1997: 4)

'The fundamental fact is that...places...become diluted and diffused in the...(new) logic of a space of flows' (Castells, 1996)

'...the significance of place had been reconstituted rather than undermined' (McDowell, 1997)

'People and things are increasingly out of place' (Clifford, 1988)

'...even local identities are completely caught up in a web of global interdependence' (Mitchell, 2000)

'Life chances are materially affected by the lottery of location' (Crang, 1999)