This chapter from Cresswell’s book, Place: A Short Introduction, is aimed at describing how geographers look at places. Cresswell explores the idea of places through the lens of different schools of thought and how the scholars under those fields shape ideas about place and space. On a rather basic level, place is explored in a descriptive style. It is a ‘common-sense view’ that still exists today. However, there are other approaches to place, are starkly different from the descriptive style. When it comes to viewing the relationship of place and politics, radical geographer have their own notion of place. To the, “places are socially constructed” (Cresswell, 26) and therefore it can be changed. In addition, place is seen as an exclusionary entity within society. In contrast, those who observe place as phenomenological entity would view society as a place-constructed. This approach to place is “less concerned with ‘places’ and more interested in Place.” This idea of place versus Place and how it affects people within a place is extremely significant. One such scholar, Yi-Fu Tuan, developed the term topophilia to refer to the “affective bond between people and place” (Cresswell, 20). Other scholar, Edward Relph views place as profound centers of human existence. This relationship between people, place, and space has been pivotal to our projects as well as our class discussion.