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Autore: |
Cresswell Tim
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Titolo: |
Place : a short introduction / / Tim Cresswell
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Pubblicazione: | Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2004 |
©2004 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
Disciplina: | 304.2/3 |
Soggetto topico: | Human geography |
Geographical perception | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Place ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-118-72544-1 |
1-118-72546-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910465697703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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