Cresswell uses political geographer John Agnew’s definition of place as the basis for his own definition and work. He says that places are spaces that people have made meaningful or have attached to in some way. Every place includes three things; location, locale, and sense of place. Location is the actual location of the place (think coordinates). Locale refers to the physical shape of a place – the walls of a room, the buildings in a city. And sense of place is the attachment that people have to space, fulfilling place’s necessity “to have some relationship to humans and the human capacity to produce and consume meaning.” Sense of place is the most important of the three because it gives us a way of understanding the world. Places come in many forms and can cause certain negative effects (racism), but they are what allow us to contextualize our world and make it ours. Cresswell then discusses space and landscape and their relationships to place. First it is important to acknowledge that space is just as important as place, because in a way, it is place. It is everything that is in between our places. To Cresswell, landscape is not place because we are not in it, or apart of it. We give landscape meaning and attach to it, but we are not actually apart of it and interacting with it.