What is a sense of place How is it created How does this change

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What is a sense of place?How is it
created?How does this change?
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Occupation of space creating a sense of place

• Dwelling (Heidegger being-in-the-world )
• Buildings and neighborhood
• Work
• Transportation
• Shopping
• Leisure
• Identity race, gender, class, sexuality,
• Process marginalization, segregation, removal,
  isolation, resistance
• Counter-space graffiti

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Occupation and the Poetics of Place

• Hayden, The Power of Place
• The story of cities and urban landscapes is tied
  to the conflicts between the making of space and
  its multiple signification as place
• Hayden ties place-making to memory-making through
  poetics and art
• creating an inclusive cultural citizenship
  reflected in the making and occupation of
  landscapes that bear the traces and scars of time

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Cognitive Maps
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Cognitive Maps

• White landscape in colonial Virginia articulated
  and processional
• rooms in the house, the house itself, the
  outbuildings, the church with its interior pews
  and surrounding walled courtyard, the courthouse
  and its walled courtyard linked by roads that
  functioned as the setting for community
  interactions that worked together to embody the
  community as a whole (Upton p.66)
• Black landscape static and discrete
• Moving from one point to another in discontinuous
  and concrete fashion
• keep to the right hand path, then youll come to
  an old field, you are to cross that, and the
  youll come to the fence of such a ones
  plantation, then keep to that fence, and youll
  come to a road that has three forks . . . Then
  youll come to a creek, after you cross that
  creek you must turn to the left, and youll come
  to a tobacco house

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Place Memory

• Edward Casey
• It is the stabilizing persistence of place as a
  container experience that contributes so
  powerfully to its intrinsic memoriability we
  might even say that memory is naturally
  place-oriented or at least place-supported
• More simply
• Places make stories because stories make places

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What is Public about Public Art? or Public
History? or Public Archaeology?
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1992 LA Riots
Why destroy your own neighborhood?
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1992 LA Riots
How to commemorate negative heritage?
"We wake up and we're surprised that there's
poverty in our midst, and that people are
frustrated and angry. There's recriminations as
to what happened, and then there are panels and
meetings and commissions, then reports. Then
there's a little bit of money folks piece
together to send it into the community to make
sure the folks are quiet and go back to the
status quo. But we never take the bullet out of
the arm and stitch up the wound that has been
made in this country."Many people rose,
applauding. "We don't need panels and reports and
commissions. We need some surgery on the
indifference to poverty in this country that has
gone on for too long. We know what needs to be
done. We know what it would mean to take the
bullet outthe bullet of slavery and Jim Crow. We
know what it would take to take that bullet out.
. ." Then Obama stopped his speech. "I've got to
take a break, because Stevie Wonder's in the
house," Obama said. (April 29, 2007 First AME
Church)
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Symbolic acts endure and traditions live on when
the metaphor is right
Greasy Pole 2007
Gloucester till the end
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Post Industrial
André Derain, Fishing Boats, 1905, Collioure
It took 400 years to build this culture, and it
could all be lost in a few decades. Fishing and
the culture of fishing, an ancient trade and a
way of life that has defined coastal towns
throughout history are vanishing from the
Atlantic.
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Life and Debt