---
title: "Place"
description: "one position a unit of a kind can be in"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/place
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Place

one position a unit of a kind can be in

[figure: Place is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | the kind and its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | kernel |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `kind` | [Kind](/concepts/kind) | yes |  |
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `resting` | `bool` | yes | a resting place is declared, and has no reader |
| `reader` | `text` | no | the durable work that moves units out, or a person |
| `longest_wait` | `duration` | no | past which the view counts the unit |
| `who_is_told` | `text` | no | when the longest wait passes |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Place directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.