Anne Buttimer, David Seamon

The Human Experience of Space and Place

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Humanistic geography is one of the major emerging themes which has recently dominated geographic writing. This collection of essays, first published in 1980, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781138924628
• ISBN-10: 1138924628
• Artikelnr.: 42283515

Autorenporträt

Anne Buttimer, David Seamon

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Identity, Place and Community
1. Social Space and the Planning of Residential Areas 2. Toward a Geography of Growing Old 3. Identity and Place: Clinical Applications Based on Notions of Rootedness and Uprootedness 4. The Integration of Community and Environment: Anarchist Decentralism in Rural Spain, 1936-39
Part 2: Horizons of Inquiry
5. Human Geography as Text Interpretation 6. Social Space and Symbolic Interpretation 7. Body-Subject, Time-Space Routines, and Place-Ballets 8. Home, Reach, and the Sense of Place
Afterword: Community, Place, and Environment
Notes on Contributors
Index