The template on TS p64
After reading Space and Place by Tuan, I agree that the word place has a very different meaning from the word space, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people are still confused about these two terms and still believe that they contain the similar denotation.
After reading Space and Place by Tuan, I agree that the word place has a very different meaning from the word space, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people are still confused about these two terms and still believe that they contain the similar denotation.
Exercise 2 on TS p67
Since I have read essays about space and place for almost two weeks, I have a deeper understanding of these two confusing words. Although a lot of people consider that space and place are similar to one another, Tuan displays the difference between these two words in an obvious way. I agree with Tuan that place is a bounded area with sophisticated values while space is infinite and abstract. Also another writer Price has his point of view that the place is mainly built on people’s daily participation, which I believe that the participation is a key factor distinguishes place from space.
Tuan attaches humanitarian with the word place. Although animals like wolves also have a sense of territory and place which they build to prevent enemies from outside, human beings have more advantaged access to the states of contemplation about place. Thus, experiments on rats to infer our behaviors about place are lack of concern and evidence. If Tuan’s hypothesizes on place with humanistic identity is right, as I consider they are, then we need to review the previous experiments on animals and search more persuasive evidence.
Price agrees with the huge difference between space and place, but he mainly focuses on how the place was constructed. He holds that the place was built upon people’s daily engagement. There is a deep relationship between the place and local people who live in the place. I agree with Price based on my personal experience. I did not leave my city—Shenzhen until I came to Emory. Compared with other cities in China, Shenzhen is quite young. It was a small fishing town before Deng Xiaoping led the Chinese economic reform in 1978. Since Shenzhen is a coastal city, it was established as one of the four special economic zones which were opened to foreign investment that were relatively free of the bureaucratic interventions. There is no doubt that people, who followed the economic reform policy, devoted themselves for creating a modern city from the previous small fishing town.
In another way, it is Shenzhen that has shaped a part of me. I did not notice the importance that Shenzhen is to me until I left the city. I was not the local who was born in Shenzhen, but my family moved to Shenzhen when I was only three-month old. Although I could not speak Cantonese as fluently as a native speaker does, I can completely understand everything in Cantonese. I never feel excluded when I am in Shenzhen, but I felt that I did not belong to Emory at the beginning of my freshman year. Shenzhen is the first thing came to my mind when I thought about the denotation of the word place.
Both Price and Tuan make the distinction between place and space. While Tuan would like to attach humanistic characters with a place, Price prefers to talk about how a place has its own values. I agree with both ideas these two writers propose.
Since I have read essays about space and place for almost two weeks, I have a deeper understanding of these two confusing words. Although a lot of people consider that space and place are similar to one another, Tuan displays the difference between these two words in an obvious way. I agree with Tuan that place is a bounded area with sophisticated values while space is infinite and abstract. Also another writer Price has his point of view that the place is mainly built on people’s daily participation, which I believe that the participation is a key factor distinguishes place from space.
Tuan attaches humanitarian with the word place. Although animals like wolves also have a sense of territory and place which they build to prevent enemies from outside, human beings have more advantaged access to the states of contemplation about place. Thus, experiments on rats to infer our behaviors about place are lack of concern and evidence. If Tuan’s hypothesizes on place with humanistic identity is right, as I consider they are, then we need to review the previous experiments on animals and search more persuasive evidence.
Price agrees with the huge difference between space and place, but he mainly focuses on how the place was constructed. He holds that the place was built upon people’s daily engagement. There is a deep relationship between the place and local people who live in the place. I agree with Price based on my personal experience. I did not leave my city—Shenzhen until I came to Emory. Compared with other cities in China, Shenzhen is quite young. It was a small fishing town before Deng Xiaoping led the Chinese economic reform in 1978. Since Shenzhen is a coastal city, it was established as one of the four special economic zones which were opened to foreign investment that were relatively free of the bureaucratic interventions. There is no doubt that people, who followed the economic reform policy, devoted themselves for creating a modern city from the previous small fishing town.
In another way, it is Shenzhen that has shaped a part of me. I did not notice the importance that Shenzhen is to me until I left the city. I was not the local who was born in Shenzhen, but my family moved to Shenzhen when I was only three-month old. Although I could not speak Cantonese as fluently as a native speaker does, I can completely understand everything in Cantonese. I never feel excluded when I am in Shenzhen, but I felt that I did not belong to Emory at the beginning of my freshman year. Shenzhen is the first thing came to my mind when I thought about the denotation of the word place.
Both Price and Tuan make the distinction between place and space. While Tuan would like to attach humanistic characters with a place, Price prefers to talk about how a place has its own values. I agree with both ideas these two writers propose.