地方的唯一性是通过地方性表达出来的。一个区域的地方性是在哪些机制复合作用下形成?地方又是如何整合在一起,形成大的区域？这些既是文化地理学尚未完全解决的问题，也是区域规划、城市规划实践中亟待回答的问题。本研究选择北京作为研究区域，首先利用质性分析和文本分析，找出北京不同区域的实践空间、空间的表征和表征的空间。其次，分析区域关联机制和人本需求机制如何形成各种地方性，并找出不同的地方性要素。第三，探索用位置、距离、规模、集中度等地理空间表达方式刻画地方性要素特征，并将这些特征与地方性要素的意义建立联系。最后，将地方性要素的地理空间表达方式与北京不同尺度区域的规划建立联系。

The unique of a place is represented by its placeness. What mechanisms form a place? How a place integrate into others and then form a whole region? These are questions have not been answered totally by cultural geographers. Regional or urban planning needs the answer to solve practice problems. This project chooses Beijing as its research area. Firstly, the project team will apply qualitative analysis and text analysis to explore the practice spaces, the representations of spaces and the representational spaces of different scale regions in Beijing. Secondly, the project team will find out variety of places that were formed by mechanism of regional relevance or humanistic need. Thirdly, the project team will try to use location, distance, size, concentration and other geo-spatial expressions to describe the characteristics of place elements, and then find the meanings behind the place elements. Finally, the project team will try to link the geo-spatial expressions of places to different scaled planning of Beijing.