Placedness: Places shape CULTURALrealities and cultures in turn shape places. Cultures transform 'spaces' into places. People belong to place and while some cultures imagine that places belong to them, owned by them. In the end we simply occupy places because they offer security, and shelter, and a space to create and sustain an identity.
Places are welcoming spaces within which we create, make, procreate and nurture all that our placemaking afford us to ndo and especially assert our 'identities'– our personal identity, our group's identity.
It is never really the case that a person in isolation 'owns' a place and its resources. Places' amenity is share and there are layers upon layers of cognitive cum communal cum collaborative cum cooperative ownerships and interests in places – multiple place, multiple layerings [REFERENCE LINK].
Places are governed to ensure and insure their amenity and placedness on behalf of those who make their homes and carry on their enterprises within them. Purposeful placedness is the primary business of governance.
A people without the knowledge of their
past history, origin and culture is
like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
If we are to preserve culture
we must continue to create it.
Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga
Preservation of one's own culture
does not require contempt or
disrespect for other cultures.
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez
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