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In marketing, place is the element of the marketing mix that covers how a product is made available to buyers: the channels, outlets, logistics, and market coverage that move a good from producer to customer. McCarthy's 1960 Basic marketing: A managerial approach grouped a manager's decisions into four categories, product, price, place, and promotion, and defined place as the distribution and channel choices that put an offering within reach. Here place means a distribution decision, described by channel structure and availability, and it has nothing to do with a neuron that fires at a spot in a room, a token-holding node in a formal model, or a location made meaningful by human experience.[1]
In the theory of concurrent systems, a place is one of the two kinds of node in a Petri net: it stands for a condition or local state that can hold a number of tokens, while the other kind of node, a transition, stands for an event that consumes and produces those tokens. Petri introduced the formalism in his 1962 doctoral thesis Kommunikation mit Automaten (Communication with automata), and Murata's 1989 Petri nets: Properties, analysis and applications gave the standard modern account of places, transitions, and their analysis. Here place is a formal node that carries tokens in a model of computation, distinct from a distribution channel in marketing, a location-tuned brain cell, or a person's bond with a locale.[2][3]
In neuroscience, a place cell is a neuron, chiefly in the hippocampus, that fires selectively when an animal occupies a particular location in its environment, so that the activity of many such cells forms a neural representation of space. O'Keefe and Dostrovsky's 1971 The hippocampus as a spatial map reported the first such location-tuned units in freely moving rats, and O'Keefe and Nadel's 1978 book The hippocampus as a cognitive map developed the theory. Here place is a spatial firing field of a single brain cell, recorded in the lab, and it is not a distribution channel, a token-holding node in a formal net, or a location made meaningful by human experience.[4][5]
In human geography, place is a location that has acquired meaning through human experience, memory, and attachment, in contrast to abstract, undifferentiated space. Tuan's 1974 essay Space and place: Humanistic perspective drew this distinction, and Relph's 1976 book Place and placelessness developed place as a centre of felt value and identity around which people build belonging. Here place is a lived, meaning-laden location studied through human experience, unlike a marketing distribution channel, a location-tuned neuron, or a token-holding node in a formal net.[6][7]
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