Place Attachment

I first came across this term when studying Place Attachment in Kensington Market. Since I last used it, and I came across it again in Space, Place and Scale, my interest in this concept deepened a little more. After reading Tuan's article, I began to realize the depth and history behind it. Tuan's article with attachment to homeland became so clear that we as individuals are constantly looking for a place to belong, sort of a container that tends to hold all our memories and association. People are trying to find a home within society. Myself, being one of them. I always try and find a location of comfort, or try to take comfort in friends. Often times, I find that within a group of people, I don't feel as though I am at "home". When I think of home, I think of comfort and being able to be myself. Being able to do that in society or even with people, give me the impression of home. On the other hand, home is seen as an "attachment of a deep, though, subconscious sort, may come simply with familiarity and ease, with the assurance of nurture and security with the memory of sounds, smells, communal activities and homely pleasures accumulated over time" as is seen by Tuan. Although she refers more so to the homeland, I think that in retrospect to that this attachment will also be with any location or space that one has spent any time in. Perhaps, there is not attachment to the place per se, but there is an association or link of past experience to that space, therefore making it a place. Some times, it's not by choice. For example with lecture halls; although no one would like to remember a class, we can associate different activities or past experiences that occured there. Another example would be the activity that took place in the previous class. Although I would not like to call Steadmen Lecture Halls my home, each time that I pass it, past experiences such as those of the previous class will arise therefore associating the space as my place at that moment in time, causing a sort of place attachment/association for me.
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