Authentic Experience and Minor Place-making

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Authentic Experience and Minor Placemaking This paper explores concepts relating to 'place' with a view to understanding the capacity and role of minor places in contributing to authentic experience. By and large extraordinary places attract attention while ordinary places do not. A pilot study group of students was asked to discuss their favourite place and most respondents talked about a beautiful natural environment. Another, wider, study reinforced the attraction of natural places. In contrast, a sampling of senior urban designers identified distinctive urban places of vitality as their favourite place. All groups spoke of authentic experiences. People rarely talk about the ordinary places where they spend most of their life undertaking everyday activities, is it because ordinary places are not regarded as authentic? One of the strongest forces in contemporary global tourism is a search for authentic experience. Our experience of travel tells us that a place can be attractive to pe

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