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Cresswell defines place on page 7 as a “meaningful location.” Therefore we give significance to specific spaces on earth. Cresswell mentions the phrase “A place for everything and everything in its place” to demonstrate how flexible the word place is (2). In order to understand place, we must understand space. According to the text, space is moving while place is paused. Therefore, “each pause in movement makes place possible” (8). While landscape is a place, Cresswell makes it clear that, “we do not live in landscapes – we look at them” (11). We “inhabit” place by making it our own personal space. People do this by redecorating or landscaping their homes, and giving space an aesthetic value. Cresswell states on page 13 that his text will “show how place is used in the construction of ideas about who and what belong where.” I think this will show readers how self identity is found by different people in different places (cultures) in the Americas.