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Genealogy of Place

This chapter discusses how place can exists and can change according to many different things. One thing that struck me in this chapter was place as home. The book says "The home is an intimate space where experience is particularly intense." to me home is where i have made most of my memories good and bad. But iv'e never really thought about what home meant to me until i read this chapter.

"In the modern World, Relph argues that we are surrounded by a general condition of creeping placelessness marked by an inability to have authentic relationships to place because the new placelessness  does not allow people to become existential insiders." I liked this quote because it made me think alot. after this the book goes on to say how Relph sees American homeowners moving every three years and therefore weakening place. It reminded me how i have moved multiple times in my life and while the building i was in changes the people im around do not. I tie my family to home more than the house itself.