1st Edition

The Human Experience of Space and Place

Edited By Anne Buttimer, David Seamon Copyright 1980
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

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Anne Buttimer, David Seamon