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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465697703321

Autore

Cresswell Tim

Titolo

Place : a short introduction / / Tim Cresswell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-118-72544-1

1-118-72546-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Short Introductions to Geography

Disciplina

304.2/3

Soggetti

Human geography

Geographical perception

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



everyday uses of the term ""place"" with the more complex theoretical debates that have grown up around itMakes the debates intelligible to students, using familiar stories as a way into more abstract ideasExcerpts and discusses key papers on place by Doreen Massey and David HarveyConsiders empirical