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Cresswell Tim |
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Titolo |
Place : a short introduction / / Tim Cresswell |
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Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2004 |
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©2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-118-72544-1 |
1-118-72546-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (169 p.) |
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Collana |
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Short Introductions to Geography |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human geography |
Geographical perception |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Defining Place; Space and Place; Place and Landscape; Place as a Way of Understanding; The Remainder of the Book; 2 The Genealogy of Place; Regional Geography; Discovering Place: Humanistic Geography; Place as Home?; Radical Human Geography and the Politics of Place; Place as `Being-in-the-World' versus Place as Social Construct; Place, Practice and Process; Place, Openness and Change; The End of Place?; Conclusions: Versions of Place; 3 Reading `A Global Sense of Place'; Historial Context |
Harvey on PlaceA Global Sense of Place; Beyond Reactionary and Progressive Senses of Place; Conclusions; 4 Working with Place; Creating Places; In Place/Out-of-Place: Anachorism; Conclusions; 5 Place Resources; Key Books on Place; Key Papers on Place; Introductory Texts on Place; Other Books and Papers on Place; Other Approaches to Place: Ecology, Planning, Architecture; Key Journals; Web Resources; Student Projects and Exercises; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This text introduces students of human geography to the fundamental concept of place, marrying everyday uses of the term with the complex theoretical debates that have grown up around it. A short introduction to one of the most fundamental concepts in human geographyMarries |
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