"The Concept of Place"

"The Concept of Place" is the topic for us to study and critique as this week tutorial's issue. There are so many argument being discuss in the essay from different view of different experts in their field, not just in psychologically but also in architecturally. Place, in my view, its mean to describe the human environment such as their house, cities and country which is somethings that we can see through our eye, its a physical things. From Edward Relph (1976: 30) "asserts that place has a physical form, i.e. landscape"(https://oa.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/2804/033.html) and also "The concept of 'place' as approached by a strictly scientific manner could be reduced to a mere spatial concept. It would thus mean 'a location in space'" (https://oa.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/2804/032.html).

In the essay there're been said that now we can lives in a more mobile life with some fantasy project such as Walking City by Ron Herron(1964) and the New Babylon by Dutch utopian Constant Nieuwenhuis which will maximize the human contact and interaction. They claimed that the essence of the city is not place but interaction. These mean that the importance in a place is the interaction between the people which stay inside it not the place which they live in. But in my view, as human, we need a stable place to live because human being are emotional where our frame of mind will alway change from time to time and it will affect our behavior. Human behavior is the population of behaviors exhibited by humans and influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, authority, rapport, hypnosis, persuasion, coercion and/or genetics.According to Humanism, each human has a different behavior.(From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_behavior).

Next, how to we get to know place? In the essay saying that, as summarize from the

psychological view, human get to a place when they are in young age, which mean by

perception of image into their memory(conservation) and start to adapt new place through out life

experience. And, concept of space not just affected by human's behavior / actions, but its controlled

/ conquered by human action. I'm agree with this term / thesis because human are the decision

maker to a place by what he want / need and how he want the place to looking like because the

place he planned / arranged will affect his action in the place.

Another thing is the way people plan the place is not done randomly or in a casual way, its

has a pattern which work with it. Ya, this is right because when we plan something on to a place, we

will take the possibilities of movement into our consideration. For example, we divided living room

and bathroom into 2 different space because we do different activities in it.

From architectural view, in my opinion, place actually is a "tool" for an architect or planner to

put in a structure to modify / make it into a useful layout / environment. Nature of a place may

satisfy our needs but its still up to our creativity and intelligence to develop it further which make

it useful to us. Architectural are also make use of a place to divide it into certain part which

differentiate it into exterior and interior part of the place. This will be served as a guid to the user /

human who using the place.

In conclusion, a place needed an image-able structure which will offer the identities of the

place and its have to be a valid house, cities or country (a stable place) for us which give structure

to our place and make us to be citizen of the world.