The place and its relationship with recent interdisciplinary debates

Abstract

This essay discusses the problems involving place as an intergrating concept within geography and within a larger interdisciplinary arena. It shows that the experience of place is a universal and elemental part of life; that differences among social science, humanities and natural science have segmented this experience, that modem culture -especially mass consumption- reinforces this segmentation while attempting to offer a solution; and that a unified conception of place is an essential bridge among the humanities, social and natural sciences.