The major differences between a 'scientific' or abstract and a 'humanized' or meaning-laden space can be summarized as follows:

container
decentred
geometry
surfaces
universal
objective
totalized
external
system
neutral
coherence
atemporal
ABSTRACT SPACE
materialist
rational

medium
centred
context
densities
specific
subjective
detotalized
internal
strategy
empowered
contradiction
temporal
HUMAN SPACE
idealist
irrational
(Tilley 8)

Western/capitalist
Infinitely open
Desanctified
Control
Surveillance/partitioning
Economic
'useful' to act
architecture resembles
'disciplinary'

non-Western/precapitalist
different densities
sanctified
sensuousness
ritualised/anthropomorphic
cosmological
'useful' to think
architecture embodies
of myth and cosmology
(Tilley 21)

Landscape everywhere in the world is a construct of human beings - whether through human ascription to it of mythological creation, or through physical actions by the humans themselves. … Whatever the difficulties of recognising such special sites from the archaeological record - all societies in the past would have recognised, as do all societies in the present, some features of their landscapes (if not all the earth) as special.(Ucko 1994: xviii-xix quoted in Knapp and Ashmore: 1)