In other cases, however, a space’s physical form is not considered central to the social functions it facilitates. Indeed, in an enumeration of the social dimensions of such sites, Gieryn (2000) introduces a terminological shift from ‘space’, which denotes a location defined by abstract geometries of distance and direction, to ‘place’, which denotes a location defined by the meanings attributed to it by its users. Thus, some research adopting the socio-spatial perspective may more properly be considered as examining not public space, but public place