Tim: Perhaps the following quote will make for an added argument. Our much quoted Norberg-Schulz  eloquently writes in his book Nightlands (pp.15):

" …But this environment where "life takes place" needs to be clarified in more than word, tone and color; it must also be built in order that its inhabitants can truly know where their place is, and thereby achieve a durable sense of belonging . The word "durable" is significant because it intimates that all transformations, which are the signs of life, must be referred to something that remains, to be meaningful. And that which remains is, above all, place.  Thus has stabilitas loci been acknowledged from the outset as a fundamental need. In order that place should remain selfsame throughout transformation, its genius loci must be conserved. Every place, every region, is significant and it is our task to understand and respect this. It is only then that we might say that we dwell, in the deeper sense of the word…."