Developing a Sense of Place

Developing a Sense of Place
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 1787357767
ISBN-13 : 9781787357761
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Developing a Sense of Place by : Tamara Ashley

A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place
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Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 9781932361810
ISBN-13 : 1932361812
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis A Sense of Place by : Michael Shapiro

In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who inspired him both to pack his bags to travel and to pick up a pen and write. Michael skillfully coaxes a collective portrait through his interviews, allowing the authors to speak intimately about the writer's life, and how place influences their work and perceptions. In each chapter Michael sets the scene by describing the writer's surroundings, placing the reader squarely in the locale, whether it be Simon Winchester's Massachusetts, Redmond O'Hanlon's London, or Frances Mayes's Tuscany. He then lets the writer speak about life and the world, and through quiet probing draws out fascinating commentary from these remarkable people. For Michael it’s a dream come true, to meet his mentors; for readers, it's an engaging window onto the twin landscapes of great travel writers and the world in which they live.

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0300063970
ISBN-13 : 9780300063974
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by : John Brinckerhoff Jackson

J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Because we live in urban and industrial environments that are constantly evolving, says Jackson, time and movement are increasingly important to us and place and permanence are less so. We no longer gain a feeling of community from where we live or where we assemble but from common work hours, habits, and customs. Jackson examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, trucks, loading docks, and suburban garages, which all reflect this emphasis on mobility and transience; he redefines roads as scenes of work and leisure and social intercourse--as places, rather than as means of getting to places; he argues that public parks are now primarily for children, older people, and nature lovers, while more mobile or gregarious people seek recreation in shopping malls, in the street, and in sports arenas; he traces the development of dwellings in New Mexico from prehistoric Pueblo villages to mobile homes; and he criticizes the tendency of some environmentalists to venerate nature instead of interacting with it and learning to share it with others in temporary ways. Written with his customary lucidity and elegance, this book reveals Jackson's passion for vernacular culture, his insights into a style of life that blurs the boundaries between work and leisure, between middle and working classes, and between public and private spaces.

A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9781684175369
ISBN-13 : 1684175364
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis A Sense of Place by : David Spafford

"A Sense of Place examines the vast Kantō region as a locus of cultural identity and an object of familial attachment during the political and military turmoil of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Japan. Through analysis of memoirs, letters, chronicles, poetry, travelogues, lawsuits, land registers, and archeological reports, David Spafford explores the relationships of the eastern elites to the space they inhabited: he considers the region both as a whole, in its literary representations and political and administrative dimensions, and as an aggregation of discrete locales, where struggles over land rights played out alongside debates about the meaning of ties between families and their holdings. Spafford also provides the first historical account in English of medieval castle building and the castellan revolution of the late fifteenth century, which militarized the countryside and radically transformed the exercise of authority over territory. Simultaneously, the book reinforces a sense of the eastern elite’s anxieties and priorities, detailing how, in their relation to land and place, local elites displayed a preference for past precedent and inherited wisdom. Even amidst the changes wrought by war, this inclination, although quite at odds with their conventional reputation for ruthless pragmatism and forward thinking, prevailed."

Changing Senses of Place

Changing Senses of Place
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 501
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ISBN-10 : 9781108856928
ISBN-13 : 1108856926
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Changing Senses of Place by : Christopher M. Raymond

Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for supporting individual and social processes for navigating these contested forces and encourages scholars to rethink how to theorise and conceptualise changes in senses of place in the face of global challenges. It also makes the case that our concepts of sense of place need to be revisited, given that our experiences of place are changing. This book is essential reading for those seeking a new understanding of the multiple and shifting experiences of place.

Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life

Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781351901154
ISBN-13 : 135190115X
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life by : Allison Williams

A significant body of theoretical and empirical studies describes 'sense of place' as an outcome of interconnected psychological, social and environmental processes in relation to physical place(s). Sense of place has been examined, particularly in human geography, in terms of both the character intrinsic to a place as a localized, bounded and material entity, and the sentiments of attachment/detachment that humans experience and express in relation to specific places. Scholars in a wide range of disciplines are increasingly exploring the relationship between place and health, and recently, the field of public health has been encouraged to recognize sense of place as a potential contributing factor to well-being. It is evident that over the last few decades, sense of place has developed into a versatile construct. This important book brings together work related to sense of place and health, broadly defined, from the perspective of a variety of fields and disciplines. It will give the reader an understanding of both the range of applications of this construct within approaches to human health as well as the breadth of research methodologies employed in its investigation.

Sense of Place and Place Attachment in Tourism

Sense of Place and Place Attachment in Tourism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9781000390735
ISBN-13 : 100039073X
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Sense of Place and Place Attachment in Tourism by : Ning Chris Chen

Place is integral to tourism. In tourism, almost all issues can ultimately be traced back to human–place interactions and human–place relationships. Sense of place, also referred to as place attachment, topophilia, and community sentiment, has received significant attention in tourism studies because it both contributes to, and is affected by, tourism. This book, written by notable authors in the field, examines sense of place and place attachment in terms of a typology of sense of place/place attachment that includes genealogical/historical, narrative/cultural, economic, ideological, cosmological, and dynamic elements. Dimensions of place attachment such as place identity, place dependence, and affective attachment are discussed as well as place marketing, place making, and destination management. Complete with a range of illustrative international cases and examples ranging from Santa Claus to the importance of place in indigenous and traditional cultures, this book represents a substantial addition to knowledge on the inseparable relationship between tourism and place and will be of great interest to all upper-level students and researchers of Tourism.

Creating a Sense of Place in School Environments

Creating a Sense of Place in School Environments
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9780429805738
ISBN-13 : 042980573X
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Creating a Sense of Place in School Environments by : Sun-Young Rieh

Creating a Sense of Place in School Environments guides its readers to the characteristics that tend to generate a sense of place through children’s vivid descriptions of their school and provides a body of critical information that can be employed to design a better school environment that can imprint cherished childhood memories. The childhood school environment calls for special attention regarding the sense of place it creates. The sense of place in childhood both affects children's current quality of life and frames their lasting world view. It is well known that children's cognitive development is closely related to their place attachment to their surroundings, and that children’s adaptation to a given environment depends on how such place attachment can be created. Therefore, it is natural that people’s identity in the world is the accumulation of their experience of place while in childhood. Cross-checking between the imprint of adults' memories of places in school and children’s current "lived experience" of their favorite school place confirmed that certain spatial configurations, which the author herein refers to as "place generators" can generate positive attributes of physical settings that construct a sense of place and last as lifelong memories. It is an ideal read for academics, students, and professionals.

The Sense of Place

The Sense of Place
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Publisher : Cbi Publishing Company
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015009416812
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sense of Place by : Fritz Steele

Discusses the effect of one's surroundings on expectations, experiences, and satisfaction levels. -- Dust jacket.