I thought it was interesting to define place as three different categories: location, locale, and sense of place (by John Agnew). Place as location defines a place to be a particular location, and includes that place does not have to be stationary. Second, place as locale describes place as "material setting for social relations," which shows how people interpret or represent their style or their vision of a space through different arrangements of contents contained in a space.
Third, place as sense of place requires us to "feel" the sense of a particular place (one can vision or imagine what the place feels like).
As Cresswell mentions at the beginning of the chapter, the word, "place" is something that we hear everyday. I never placed a specific meaning to how I see "place." (I just realized that I used "place" as a verb when I'm really referring to how I define place as a location... so what's the difference between using "place" as a verb or a noun?... I guess using it as a noun defines a personal space where using it as a verb depicts a position of something) I defined a place to be a territory or a landscape but now that I've read Cresswell's point of view, place really is everywhere. As he defines it, place is an "everyday encounter."
I also thought distinction between "space" and "place" was interesting. After reading the passage, I read the subtitle again - "space" gave me a sense of emptiness and a sense of structural system. In contrast, "place" made me to consider the value of a space.
Overall, the whole passage helped me to realize that place is not just about a location, it's really about understanding how a space becomes a place. Through the process of constructing a place from a structural space, specific meanings are applied. It's important to recognize the historical value of place rather than just seeing the place as an existing area.
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