The Human Experience Of Space And Place

Author : Anne Buttimer,David Seamon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317408437

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The Human Experience of Space and Place by Anne Buttimer,David Seamon Pdf

Humanistic geography is one of the major emerging themes which has recently dominated geographic writing. Anne Buttimer has been one of the leading figures in the rise of humanistic geography, and the research students she collected round her at Clark University in the 1970s constituted something of a ‘school’ of humanistic geographers. This school developed a significantly new style of geographical inquiry, giving special emphasis to people’s experience of place, space and environment and often using philosophical and subjective methodology. This collection of essays, first published in 1980, brings together this school and offers insight into philosophical and practical issues concerning the human experience of environments. An extensive range of topics are discussed, and the aim throughout is to weave analytical and critical thought into a more comprehensive understanding of lived experience. This book will be of interest to students of human geography.

Author : Xiangming Chen,Anthony M. Orum,Krista E. Paulsen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119167716

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Introduction to Cities by Xiangming Chen,Anthony M. Orum,Krista E. Paulsen Pdf

The revised and updated second edition of Introduction to Cities explores why cities are such a vital part of the human experience and how they shape our everyday lives. Written in engaging and accessible terms, Introduction to Cities examines the study of cities through two central concepts: that cities are places, where people live, form communities, and establish their own identities, and that they are spaces, such as the inner city and the suburb, that offer a way to configure and shape the material world and natural environment. Introduction to Cities covers the theory of cities from an historical perspective right through to the most recent theoretical developments. The authors offer a balanced account of life in cities and explore both positive and negative themes. In addition, the text takes a global approach, with examples ranging from Berlin and Chicago to Shanghai and Mumbai. The book is extensively illustrated with updated maps, charts, tables, and photographs. This new edition also includes a new section on urban planning as well as new chapters on cities as contested spaces, exploring power and politics in an urban context. It contains; information on the status of poor and marginalized groups and the impact of neoliberal policies; material on gender and sexuality; and presents a greater range of geographies with more attention to European, Latin American, and African cities. Revised and updated, Introduction to Cities provides a complete introduction to the history, evolution, and future of our modern cities.

Author : Xiangming Chen,Anthony M. Orum,Krista E. Paulsen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118261286

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Introduction to Cities by Xiangming Chen,Anthony M. Orum,Krista E. Paulsen Pdf

A complete introduction to the history, evolution, and future of the modern city, this book covers a wide range of theory, including the significance of space and place, to provide a balanced account of why cities are an essential part of the global human experience. Covers a wide range of theoretical approaches to the city, from the historical to the cutting edge Emphasizes the important themes of space and place Offers a balanced account of cities and offers extensive coverage including urban inequality, environment and sustainability, and methods for studying the city Takes a global approach, with examples from Berlin and Chicago to Shanghai and Mumbai Includes a range of pedagogical features such as a substantial glossary of key terms, critical thinking questions, suggestions for further reading and a range of innovative textboxes which follow the themes of Exploring Further, Studying the City and Making the City Better Extensively illustrated with maps, charts, tables, and over 80 photographs Accompanied by a comprehensive student companion site featuring a list of relevant journals, a guide to useful web resources, and an annotated documentary film guide, alongside a useful instructor companion site with further examples, case studies, and discussion and essay questions; instructors will find a link to the instructor website on the student website at www.wiley.com/go/cities

Author : Yi-fu Tuan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Geographical perception
ISBN : 0816608849

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Space and Place by Yi-fu Tuan Pdf

Author : Anne Buttimer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421448558

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Geography and the Human Spirit by Anne Buttimer Pdf

What does it mean to dwell? Every civilization has a story to tell, according to Anne Buttimer, and exploring those stories brings fresh light to modern ideas about the relationship between humanity and its environment. In Geography and the Human Spirit, Buttimer ranges widely from Plato to Barry Lopez, from the Upanishads to Goethe, taking an interdisciplinary look at the ways in which human beings have turned to natural science, theology, and myth to form visions of the earth as a human habitat.

Author : Phil Hubbard,Rob Kitchin
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446247730

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Key Thinkers on Space and Place by Phil Hubbard,Rob Kitchin Pdf

In this latest edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, editors Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin provide us with a fully revised and updated text that highlights the work of over 65 key thinkers on space and place. Unique in its concept, the book is a comprehensive guide to the life and work of some of the key thinkers particularly influential in the current ′spatial turn′ in the social sciences. Providing a synoptic overview of different ideas about the role of space and place in contemporary social, cultural, political and economic life, each portrait comprises: Biographical information and theoretical context. An explication of their contribution to spatial thinking. An overview of key advances and controversie. Guidance on further reading. With 14 additional chapters including entries on Saskia Sassen, Tim Ingold, Cindi Katz and John Urry, the book covers ideas ranging from humanism, Marxism, feminism and post-structuralism to queer-theory, post-colonialism, globalization and deconstruction, presenting a thorough look at diverse ways in which space and place has been theorized. An essential text for geographers, this now classic reference text is for all those interested in theories of space and place, whether in geography, sociology, cultural studies, urban studies, planning, anthropology, or women′s studies.

Author : Arianna Maiorani,C. Bruna Mancini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527576520

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Space and Place as Human Coordinates by Arianna Maiorani,C. Bruna Mancini Pdf

This truly multidisciplinary book explores how culture-founding terms like ‘space’ and ‘place’ have been reconsidered, re-elaborated and how they have acquired new meanings through academic research that crosses the traditional borderline between the humanities and social sciences. All chapters explore from different perspectives how the notions of space and place are still modelling our sense of reality by investigating social and cultural phenomena of various types that evolved between the 20th and 21st centuries. The essays collected here provide evidence of the growing necessity of building bridges across disciplines to allow knowledge, in general, and academic work, in particular, to work towards new forms of epistemology. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students in the areas of cultural studies, discourse analysis, multimodality, communication and media, linguistics, literary and film studies, anthropology and ethnography.

Author : Thomas Hünefeldt,Annika Schlitte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319929378

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Situatedness and Place by Thomas Hünefeldt,Annika Schlitte Pdf

This book explores the ways in which the spatio-temporal contingency of human life is being conceived in different fields of research. Specifically, it looks at the relationship between the situatedness of human life, the situation or place in which human life is supposed to be situated, and the dimensions of space and time in which both situation and place are usually themselves supposed to be situated. Over the last two or three decades, the spatio-temporal contingency of human life has become an important topic of research in a broad range of different disciplines including the social sciences, the cultural sciences, the cognitive sciences, and philosophy. However, this research topic is referred to in quite different ways: while some researchers refer to it in terms of “situation”, emphasizing the “situatedness” of human experience and action, others refer to it in terms of “place”, emphasizing the “power of place” and advocating a “topological” or “topographical turn” in the context of a larger “spatial turn”. Interdisciplinary exchange is so far hampered by the fact that the notions referred to and the relationships between them are usually not sufficiently questioned. This book addresses these issues by bringing together contributions on the spatio-temporal contingency of human life from different fields of research.

Author : Bruce B. Janz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319522142

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Place, Space and Hermeneutics by Bruce B. Janz Pdf

This book analyzes the hermeneutics of place, raising questions about central issues such as textuality, dialogue, and play. It discusses the central figures in the development of hermeneutics and place, and surveys disciplines and areas in which a hermeneutic approach to place has been fruitful. It covers the range of philosophical hermeneutic theory, both within philosophy itself as well as from other disciplines. In doing so, the volume reflects the state of theorization on these issues, and also looks forward to the implications and opportunities that exist. Philosophical hermeneutics has fundamentally altered philosophy’s approach to place. Issues such as how we dwell in place, how place is imagined, created, preserved, and lost, and how philosophy itself exists in place have become central. While there is much research applying hermeneutics to place, there is little which both reflects on that heritage and critically analyzes a hermeneutic approach to place. This book fills that void by offering a sustained analysis of the central elements, major figures, and disciplinary applications of hermeneutics and place.

Author : Shira L. Lander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107146945

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Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa by Shira L. Lander Pdf

Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space by analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence.

Author : David Seamon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351212496

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Life Takes Place by David Seamon Pdf

Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on examples of specific places and place experiences to understand place more broadly. Advocating for a holistic way of understanding that he calls "synergistic relationality," Seamon defines places as spatial fields that gather, activate, sustain, identify, and interconnect things, human beings, experiences, meanings, and events. Throughout his phenomenological explication, Seamon recognizes that places are multivalent in their constitution and sophisticated in their dynamics. Drawing on British philosopher J. G. Bennett’s method of progressive approximation, he considers place and place experience in terms of their holistic, dialectical, and processual dimensions. Recognizing that places always change over time, Seamon examines their processual dimension by identifying six generative processes that he labels interaction, identity, release, realization, intensification, and creation. Drawing on practical examples from architecture, planning, and urban design, he argues that an understanding of these six place processes might contribute to a more rigorous place making that produces robust places and propels vibrant environmental experiences. This book is a significant contribution to the growing research literature in "place and place making studies."

Author : Sara Price,Carey Jewitt,Barry Brown
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446287088

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The SAGE Handbook of Digital Technology Research by Sara Price,Carey Jewitt,Barry Brown Pdf

Research on and with digital technologies is everywhere today. This timely, authoritative Handbook explores the issues of rapid technological development, social change, and the ubiquity of computing technologies which have become an integrated part of people′s everyday lives. This is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for the twenty-first century. It addresses the key aspects of research within the digital technology field and provides a clear framework for readers wanting to navigate the changeable currents of digital innovation. Main themes include: - Introduction to the field of contemporary digital technology research - New digital technologies: key characteristics and considerations - Research perspectives for digital technologies: theory and analysis - Environments and tools for digital research - Research challenges Aimed at a social science audience, it will be of particular value for postgraduate students, researchers and academics interested in research on digital technology, or using digital technology to undertake research.

Author : Yi-fu Tuan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Geographical perception
ISBN : UVA:X000620852

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Space and Place by Yi-fu Tuan Pdf

In the 25 years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theater, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time. He suggests that place is security and space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. Whether he is considering sacred versus "biased" space, mythical space and place, time in experiential space, or cultural attachments to space, Tuan's analysis is thoughtful and insightful.

Author : John C. Smart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402096280

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Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research by John C. Smart Pdf

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on twelve general areas that encompass the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.

Author : Otto Bollnow
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8869772837

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Human Space by Otto Bollnow Pdf

Human space is an English translation of one of the most comprehensive studies of space as we experience it. Since it was published in Germany in 1963, Bollnow's text has become a key reading in architecture, anthropology, and philosophy, and has been kept continuously in print (in 2010 the German edition was issued in its eleventh impression). The