Place and the phenomenological basis of geography The concept of place The phenomenological basis of geography Aims and approaches Space and place Pragmatic or primitive space Perceptual space Existential space Sacred space Geographical space Structure of geographical space Architectural space and planning space Cognitive space Abstract space Relationships between the forms of space The essence of place Place and location Place and landscape Place and time Place and community Private and personal places Rootedness and care for place Home places as profound centres of human existence The drudgery of place Essence of place On the identity of places The identity of places The components of th eidentity of places Insideness and outsideness Existential outsideness Objective outsideness Incidental outsideness Vicarious insideness Behaviour al insideness Empathetic insideness Existential insideness Images and identities of places Individual images of place Group or community images of place Consensus and mass images of place The development and maintenance of identities of places Types of identities of places A sense of place and authentic place-making Authentic sense of place Unselfconscious sense of place Selfconscious sense of place Authentically created places Places made unselfconsciously Places made selfconsciously Authenticity and place Placelessness Inauthenticity Inauthentic attitudes to place Kitsch Technique and planning Placelessness Mass communication Mass culture Big business Central authority The economic system The components of a placeless geography Experiences of the present-day landscape The distinctiveness of experiences of present-day landscapes The landscape of reflection and reason The absurd landscape The mediating machine The everyday landscape Confusion and proteanism in present-day landscapes The simple landscape Significance in the present-day landscape Concluding comments Prospects for places Place Placelessness The inevitability of placelessness? Designing a lived-world of places