Abstract
People, place, and space are the main domain of spatial research which is widely discussed in the geographic discipline. Geographers always focus on the meanings related to space and human interactions to explain people, place, and space. The concept was explained by Richard Harsthrone (1959), Fred E Lukermann (1964), David Harvey (1969), Henri Lefebvre (1974), Yi-fu Tuan (1974), Edward Relph (1976) and Doreen Massey (2005), etc. As a human geographer, Yi.fu Tuan has a great contribution to explain people-place relations and further explained by Relph, Massey, and other scholars. Grounding on the geographic research traditions, this paper presents the concept of people, place, and space reviewing the historiographical literatures and some empirical research studies on people-space relations. Theorists have argued that people and space are deep-rooted in studying place attachment creating people’s sense of place. People’s actions and behaviors create meaning through their individual and communal behaviors in that space where they live and interact. Moreover, theoretical perspectives argue that placemaking is always associated with the social and cultural dimensions of a society. Empirically, as an indigenous society, people from the core area of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have been perceiving urban open space as a commonplace for social and cultural life activities whereas migrants’ people living in the newly growing settlements have been perceiving the open space as a place for recreation and social capital enhancement.
Highlights
The study of people, place, and space is the major focus within the field of geographical research
As space and place together define the nature of geography, spatial analysis is at the forefront of geographical research locating space and place at the centre
Geographers are confident of both the meaning of space and the methods suited to its analysis and a place like space lies at the core of geographical discipline which Tuan explains that modern analysis derives its substance from man’s interactions with space which he has termed as ‘sense of place’ (Tuan, 1977)
Summary
The study of people, place, and space is the major focus within the field of geographical research. Geographers always focus on the meanings of space and human interactions to explain people, place, and space relations. The meaning of space is associated with social, cultural, and geographical contexts. Space is a social place for sharing people’s feelings, experiences, knowledge, interaction between them; and to others. It is a place for physical exercises and places for health improvement. This paper explores the space as a locational extent to which urban communities value it for different functions of urban life, and the place is the human attachment to a space created by the behaviour of people reflecting their everyday social, cultural, recreational, and health-related life activities. The debate of people place relations is always related to human attachment through their life activities
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