Bergen, Norway
The difference between place and space is not always understood by students, so this is an attempt to clarify. Space as a geographical concept is about location, distance, spatial distribution and spatial organisation, and their influence on the environment, people and societies. The concept of place, on the other hand, is about the characteristics of the areas of the Earth’s surface we identify as places, and their influence on environmental and human processes and phenomena. Very simply, space is about ‘where’, and place is about ‘what is there’.
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