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More than the surroundings

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Lunch on the terrace at the Louisiana Museum, Denmark

Don't automatically equate the physical surroundings with the place. The place may involve other physical or virtual areas at a distance. Indeed, since places always involve norms or expectations for action and action always has temporal location and stages, it turns out that for an area to be a place there must always be some type of division or discontinuity. There can be no purely continuous place, for in such a place no form of life could be enacted. At the very least there will be the border between this place and others, but usually there will be internal divisions corresponding to different actions or stages of action. The greater discontinuity found in contemporary places thus emphasizes a condition that has always been active in places.