The Power Of Place Rle Social Cultural Geography

Author : John A. Agnew,James S Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317907398

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The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) by John A. Agnew,James S Duncan Pdf

Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological ‘imaginations’. The geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one, concerned with determining the nature of places, and classifying them and the links between them. The sociological imagination aspires to explanation of human activities in terms of abstract social processes. The chapters in this book focus on both the intellectual histories of the concept of place and on its empirical uses. They show that place is as important for understanding contemporary America as it is for 18th-century Sri Lanka. They also show how the concept can provide insight into ‘old’ problems such as the nature of social life in Renaissance Florence and Venice. The editors are leading exponents of the view of place as a concept that can ‘mediate’ the geographical and sociological imaginations.

Author : John A. Agnew,James S. Duncan
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005596260

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The Power of Place by John A. Agnew,James S. Duncan Pdf

Author : John A. Agnew,James S. Duncan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415834473

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The Power of Place by John A. Agnew,James S. Duncan Pdf

Author : Jennifer Wolch,Michael Dear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317819929

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The Power of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) by Jennifer Wolch,Michael Dear Pdf

This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction – gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places. At the core of the book’s contribution is the concept of society as a ‘time-space’ fabric, upon which are engraved the processes of political, economic and socio-cultural life. A second distinctive feature of the book is its substantive focus on the relation between territory and social practice. Thirdly, it represents a significant step in the redefinition of the research agenda in human geography.

Author : Jennifer Wolch,Michael Dear,Professor of City and Regional Planning Michael Dear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Human geography
ISBN : 1138989681

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The Power of Geography by Jennifer Wolch,Michael Dear,Professor of City and Regional Planning Michael Dear Pdf

This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction - gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places. At the core of the book's contribution is the concept of society as a 'time-space' fabric, upon which are engraved the processes of political, economic and socio-cultural life. A second distinctive feature of the book is its substantive focus on the relation between territory and social practice. Thirdly, it represents a significant step in the redefinition of the research agenda in human geography.

Author : Audrey Kobayashi,Suzanne Mackenzie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317907039

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Remaking Human Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) by Audrey Kobayashi,Suzanne Mackenzie Pdf

This book highlights the increasingly important contribution of geographical theory to the understanding of social change, values, economic & political organization and ethical imperatives. As a cohesive collection of chapters from well-known geographers in Britain and North America, it reflects the aims of the contributors in striving to bridge the gap between the historical-materialist and humanist interpretations of human geography. The book deals with both the contemporary issues outlined above and the situation in which they emerge: industrial restructuring, planning, women’s issues, social and cultural practices and the landscape as context for social action.

Author : James S. Duncan,David Ley
Publisher : London : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004045212

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Place/culture/representation by James S. Duncan,David Ley Pdf

Discussing authorial power, landscape metaphor and the notions of community and sense of place, this explores the ways in which spatial and cultural analysis have found much common ground in making sense of ourselves and the landscape we inhabit.

Author : Ali Cheshmehzangi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811610035

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Urban Memory in City Transitions by Ali Cheshmehzangi Pdf

As a continuation of ‘Identity of Cities and City of Identities’, this book covers the arguments around the memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban places. As cities experience transitional phases of growth, development, decline, and decay, the author urges considering the notion of urban memory in place-making strategies and design decision-making processes. These explorations would add value to primary fields of architecture, architectural history, cognitive science, human geography, and urbanism. Divided into eight chapters, this book puts together a comprehensive knowledge of urban memory in city transitions. By studying urban memory, the author delves into conceptions of mental mapping, knowledge of environments, cognition of places, and the perceptual dimension of urbanism. Undoubtedly, urban memory plays a significant part in the future movements of humanistic urbanism. Given the significances of scale, pace, and mode of city transitions globally, we should remember who are the ultimate users of those living environments. Therefore, in this book, the author debates two contradictions of ‘memory of place vs. place of memory’, and ‘significance of place vs. place of significance’. Each of these is believed to be a paradox of its own, indicating places are significant through the systematic networks of cities, memories are meaningful through the neural information processing, and place memories are the essence of urban identities. The book's ultimate goal is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the space-time frame of place in making memorable places. Through the comprehensive explorations of many global examples, we can evaluate the significance of place in mind more carefully. This is narrated based on the recognition of nostalgia in cities, socio-temporal qualities in places, and the network of processes in our minds. In return, the aim is to provide new knowledge to make memorable cities, enhance social experiences, and capture and value the significance of place in mind.

Author : Chenghu Zhou,Fenzhen Su,Francis Harvey,Jun Xu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811044243

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Spatial Data Handling in Big Data Era by Chenghu Zhou,Fenzhen Su,Francis Harvey,Jun Xu Pdf

This proceedings volume introduces recent work on the storage, retrieval and visualization of spatial Big Data, data-intensive geospatial computing and related data quality issues. Further, it addresses traditional topics such as multi-scale spatial data representations, knowledge discovery, space-time modeling, and geological applications. Spatial analysis and data mining are increasingly facing the challenges of Big Data as more and more types of crowd sourcing spatial data are used in GIScience, such as movement trajectories, cellular phone calls, and social networks. In order to effectively manage these massive data collections, new methods and algorithms are called for. The book highlights state-of-the-art advances in the handling and application of spatial data, especially spatial Big Data, offering a cutting-edge reference guide for graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the field of GIScience.

Author : Ron Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 0415733243

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The Future of Geography (RLE Social and Cultural Geography) by Ron Johnston Pdf

This book urges the case for reinstating regional geography as a contemporary and relevant methodology. Much interest was shown in the 1980s in reviving, yet restructuring, the field of regional geography. The essays in this book both review that work and propose a way forward. The essays divide into three sections. The first assesses traditional regional geography and its relevance to the study of contemporary situations; the second, the alternative approaches of world-systems analysis, diffusion and structuration theory. The book concludes by considering the potential of regional geography to interpret the structures within which society operates and its claim to remain at the core of the discipline.

Author : Jon Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135277499

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Understanding Cultural Geography by Jon Anderson Pdf

This new and comprehensive book offers a holistic introduction to cultural geography. It integrates the broad range of theories and practices of the discipline by arguing that the essential focus of cultural geography is place. The book builds an accessible and engaging configuration of this important concept through arguing that place should be understood as an ongoing composition of traces. The book presents specific chapters outlining the history of cultural geography, before and beyond representation, as well as the methods and techniques of doing cultural geography. It investigates the places and traces of corporate capitalism, nationalism, ethnicity, youth culture and the place of the body. Throughout these chapters case study examples will be used to illustrate how these places are taken and made by particular cultures, examples include the Freedom Tower in New York City, the Berlin Wall, the Gaza Strip, Banksy graffiti, and anti-capitalist protest movements. The book discusses the role of power in cultural place-making, as well as the ethical dimensions of doing cultural geography. Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces offers a broad-based overview of cultural geography, ideal for students being introduced to the discipline through either undergraduate or postgraduate degree courses. The book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci and methodological techniques of cultural geography illuminate and make sense of the places we inhabit and contribute to. This is a timely synthesis that aims to incorporate a vast knowledge foundation and by doing so it will also prove invaluable for lecturers and academics alike.

Author : Douglas C. D. Pocock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317906322

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Humanistic Geography and Literature (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) by Douglas C. D. Pocock Pdf

This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.

Author : David J. Evans,David T. Herbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317907305

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The Geography of Crime (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) by David J. Evans,David T. Herbert Pdf

This book presents original research into contemporary geographical aspects of the study of crime. The contributors, drawn from different disciplines within the social sciences and from various countries, give a review of the subject which provides a valuable insight into the geography of crime. Their approaches range from the behavioural to the environmental, and the crimes dealt with include violent crime and residential burglary. The book examines data sources, discusses different crimes and ways of studying them and considers the fear of crime. The criminal justice system in the UK is examined in detail, including policy, the operations of community and police committees and an account of the experience of crime prevention policies in Britain and North America is also given.

Author : Tine Buffel,Chris Phillipson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000932508

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Ageing in Place in Urban Environments by Tine Buffel,Chris Phillipson Pdf

Ageing in Place in Urban Environments considers together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side and urbanisation on the other. Both have been identified as dominant demographic trends of the twenty-first century. Cities are where the majority of people of all ages now live and where they will spend their old age. Nevertheless, cities are typically imagined and structured with a younger, working-age population in mind while older people are rarely incorporated into the mainstream of thinking and planning around urban environments. Cities can contribute to vulnerability arising from high levels of population turnover, environmental problems, gentrification, and reduced availability of affordable housing. However, they can also provide innovative forms of support and services essential to promoting the quality of life of older people. Policies in Europe have emphasised the role of the local environment in promoting “ageing in place”, a term used to describe the goal of helping people to remain in their own homes and communities for as long as they wish. However, while this has been the dominant approach, the places in which older people are ageing have often proved to be challenging environments. The book explores the forces behind these developments and how older people have responded. Drawing upon approaches from social gerontology, urban studies, geography, and sociology, this book will be essential reading for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners searching for innovative ways to improve the lives of older people living in urban environments.

Author : David Ley,Marwyn S. Samuels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317820512

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Humanistic Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) by David Ley,Marwyn S. Samuels Pdf

Humanistic geography now has an established position in the intellectual development of contemporary geography. However there has so far been little attempt to draw together the humanistic approach in one broad statement. This book by the leading figures in the field provides a platform for the exposition of humanistic geography in all its aspects.