In McClay and McAllister’s Why Place Matters they argue that space isn’t as important to society or individuals due to globalization. Globalization happened because of the technological advances of communication and transportation making it easy to move people, products, and ideas. They claim that place is an important aspect to us as individuals because we risk forfeiting the reality of embodiment. We risk the basis for healthy and resilient individual identity. The preconditions for cultivating of people’s virtues is also at risk. Citizenship is only to physical place not to a website or cloud of information. Seeing friends and family through a screen isn’t the same as a physical where you can interact with them physically as opposed to virtual
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Memories fade fast when we experience new ones every day. That’s why we as humans leave memories in physical places. Whenever we go to that physical place the memories will come back to us hence why we use the term anchor. Take this study by Robert N. Kraft, who has a Ph.D. in psychology, where he visited places the were important to him and concluded that “Visiting places from earlier in our lives can retrieve memories that have not been recalled for many years. Such memories come back vividly and in detail. With its irrepressible retrieval cues, place is truly a universal petite Madeleine, calling up long-forgotten images of the past.” (Robert N. Kraft), Robert could remember the memories much more vividly and in greater detail than before. The place you revisit sparks memories of all human senses. We have memories that can be ignited just by something familiar whether it be smell, touch, taste, sight, or noise. This is extraordinary because it enables us to have more memories than if we don’t revisit places of significance. Although some may say that pictures offer sort of a reminder unless we have technology that can make a copy of everything in that environment then visiting it physically is better than through technology. The recollection of memories is an importance aspect of why physical places are important to us. The connections we hold with these physical places are strengthen by the memories we anchor to it. Corporal places are important to us as individuals and
Memories fade fast when we experience new ones every day. That’s why we as humans leave memories in physical places. Whenever we go to that physical place the memories will come back to us hence why we use the term anchor. Take this study by Robert N. Kraft, who has a Ph.D. in psychology, where he visited places the were important to him and concluded that “Visiting places from earlier in our lives can retrieve memories that have not been recalled for many years. Such memories come back vividly and in detail. With its irrepressible retrieval cues, place is truly a universal petite Madeleine, calling up long-forgotten images of the past.” (Robert N. Kraft), Robert could remember the memories much more vividly and in greater detail than before. The place you revisit sparks memories of all human senses. We have memories that can be ignited just by something familiar whether it be smell, touch, taste, sight, or noise. This is extraordinary because it enables us to have more memories than if we don’t revisit places of significance. Although some may say that pictures offer sort of a reminder unless we have technology that can make a copy of everything in that environment then visiting it physically is better than through technology. The recollection of memories is an importance aspect of why physical places are important to us. The connections we hold with these physical places are strengthen by the memories we anchor to it. Corporal places are important to us as individuals and