A place may be a space, but it’s not always a community. A community may be a place, but doesn’t have to occupy a particular space. A space may lack community and therefore fail to be a place at all. Or at least a place worth visiting. Semantics are never a good thing when jet lagged.
Organisations are obsessed with spaces: creating space, occupying space, making spaces secret or social, trying to make people act in certain ways in certain spaces, and not to act in certain ways in others. Organisations often partition the world by space.
Places we remember: the place we grew up in, the place we had our first date, the place we are happiest. Places are spaces, overlaid with context. Places are special, spaces are two a penny.
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