Place is a socially and geographically significant place, sculpted by people, communities and culture; and that gives the place an identity. It links humans with the environment and is defined through distinctive physical and social qualities. Although it is different from spaces which are simply identified boundaries that act as a counterpoint to the place.2. Creswell. T, 2006, Reading 'A Global Sense of Place', chapter 3Creswell explores the notion of place by looking at David Harvey's vision in 'From Space to Place and Back Again', and comparing it with Doreen Massey's vision of place in 'A Global Sense of Place'. Sense of Place,” 1994. These chapters were published in the 1990s, an era of rapid globalization that led to homogenization and cultural imperialism. Harvey's notion of place is an outdated idealized view that place it is inhabited by homogeneous identities constituted against the current mobility, uncertainty and fragmentation in this globalizing world. He believes that place is a social construct to which we are tied to certain identities and social divisions United States to show the idea of place as a barrier against threats from outside. This shows that his notion of place is a permanence in constant tension with mobility, a primary force of globalization homogenization and cultural imperialism, which, according to Harvey, makes the place more important because we value it more compared to external threats and is what makes us differentiate a place from others. Massey, on the other hand, seems to embrace the concept of mobility while Harvey seems to shy away from the idea. She rejects Harvey's idea of a homogeneous and clearly demarcated place, but rather of a heterogeneous place that is connected... to the center of the card... a place to be nourished and benefited from. Could this be a rebel against these anti-globalization communities? While Massey's vision of place was defined by the outside and the inside; sculpted by a multiplicity of identities and stories from around the world. For her, gated communities do not celebrate the connectedness of communities across the world and therefore have no sense of place. As countries become more cultural and internationalized, it is difficult to see how gated communities can thrive without the consequences or problems of a globalizing world. The gates provide a false sense of security and a mask for society's problems of inequality, class/polarization, racism, and poverty. However, the effects of globalization, i.e. Harvey's idea of external threats such as crime, cannot be hidden. This therefore shows that gated communities give a false sense of place.
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