Site and Situation

The concepts of site and situation can be articulated as two axis:

• The site is the vertical axis, mostly related to the attributes of a location, which mainly fall within physical, infrastructure and economic characteristics.
• The situation is the horizontal axis, expressing the relationships with other locations at the local, regional or global scale.

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