The Notion of Place and Placemaking

This chapter, thematically, reviews the notion of placePlace defined by philosophers and thinkers of different disciplines. The overall intention of this reviewing is to learn to what extent these scholars’ definitions of placePlace are in parallel or in contrast with ordinary people’s definitions of their living places. In this chapter, general meanings of the term placePlace initiate discussion. The chapter then investigates the ancient IranianIranian prophet Zoroaster’s thoughts about the notion of Being and its effects on the ideas of the classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle about the notion of placePlace. The chapter continues with the knowledge of Martin Heidegger’s notion of dwellingDwelling and its effects on the contemporary understanding of placePlace. Subsequently, the chapter reviews certain contemporary definitions of placePlace, which are similar in subject matters to those of participants’ significant factors in defining their living places and neighbourhoods of YazdYazd. After this thematic review, the chapter lays out how placePlace experienced its transition through modernityModernity followed by the notion of placemaking within the realm of urban designUrban design, and using the shoeShoe as a symbol of placePlace.