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Places and Kant
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Ritualized space (Lund cemetary)
Social norms for action specifying where to walk and what to do (dunes on Prince Edward Island, Canada)
Places have grammatical or conceptual unity as well as spatial extent. The experience of a place is not just a sequence of "now here this, now there that." If the successive states of the place and the actions in it are to be experienced at all, they must be experienced as following some rule or conceptual unity. For Kant, every entity must be specifiable in quality and quantity, and must be located within causal connections that link temporal stages. Place grammars involve principles that designate appropriate qualities and quantities, as well as connecting principles that set up a network of cross-time relations.