Place A Short Introduction

Name: Place A Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9781405106726

ISBN-10: 1405106727

ISBN-13: 9781405106726

Edition: 2004

Authors: Tim Cresswell

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Place is one of the most fundamental concepts in human geography. This short introduction marries familiar everyday uses of the term with the more complex theoretical debates that have grown up around it. The text makes the debates intelligible to students, using illustrations from the news, popular culture, and everyday life as a way into more abstract ideas. It traces the development of the concept of place from the 1950s through its subsequent appropriation by cultural geography and the linking of place to politics. Substantial parts of exemplary papers by Doreen Massey and David Harvey are included as a focus for discussion, and the author also considers empirical examples of ways…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/7/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



List of Figures


Series Editors' Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Defining Place


Space and Place


Place and Landscape


Place as a Way of Understanding


The Remainder of the Book



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?


Conclusion: Versions of Place



Reading 'A Global Sense of Place'


Historial Context


Harvey on Place


A Global Sense of Place


Beyond Reactionary and Progressive Senses of Place


Conclusions



Working with Place


Creating Places


In Place/Out-of-Place: Anachorism


Conclusions



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