Exploring Social Geography (Routledge Revivals)

Exploring Social Geography (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781317748946
ISBN-13 : 1317748948
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Synopsis Exploring Social Geography (Routledge Revivals) by : Peter A. Jackson

Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. The argument emphasises the essentially spatial structure of social interaction, and includes a succinct discussion of geographical research on segregation and interaction, which has combined numerical analyses and qualitative ethnographic field research. A distinctive view of social geography is adopted, inspired by the Chicago school of North American pragmatism, but also incorporating the formal sociological theories of Simmel and Weber. Exploring Social Geography will be of value to students of urban geography in particular. However, it will also indicate a wide-ranging and distinctive perspective for all students of the social sciences with a special interest in debates concerning urban, ethnic, racial, anthropological and theoretical issues.

Integrated Models in Geography (Routledge Revivals)

Integrated Models in Geography (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781135121846
ISBN-13 : 1135121842
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Synopsis Integrated Models in Geography (Routledge Revivals) by : Richard Chorley

First published in 1967, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building. It is composed of five of the chapters from the original Models in Geography, published in 1967. The first chapter broadly outlines this theme and examines the nature and function of generalized statements, ranging from conceptual models to scale models, in a geographical context. The following chapters deal with mixed-system model building in geography, wherein data, techniques and concepts in both physical and human geography are integrated. The book contains chapters on organisms and ecosystems as geographical models as well as spatial patterns in human geography. This text represents a robustly anti-idiographic statement of modern work in one of the major branches of geography.

Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography

Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781317373667
ISBN-13 : 1317373669
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography by : Edward Relph

This book, first published in 1981, explores why it is that the modern built environment, while successfully providing material comfort and technical efficiency, none the less breeds despair and depression rather than inspires hope and commitment. The source of this paradox, where material benefits appear to have been gained only at the expense of intangible values and qualities is found in humanism, the persistent and powerful belief that all problems can be solved through the use of human reason. But humanism has become increasingly confused, rationalistic, callously devoted to efficiency, and authoritarian. These confusions and contradictions, together with the anti-nature stance of humanism and its failure to teach humane behaviour, lead the author to conclude that humanism is best rejected. Such rejection does not advocate the inhuman and anti-human, but requires instead a return to the ‘humility’ that lies at the origin of humanism – a respect for objects, creatures, environments and people. This ‘environmental humility’ is explored in the context of individuality of settings, ways of seeing landscapes, appropriation and ways of building places. This title will be of interest to students of human geography.

Socio-economic Models in Geography

Socio-economic Models in Geography
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:610305993
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Synopsis Socio-economic Models in Geography by : Richard J. Chorley

Rural Resource Management (Routledge Revivals)

Rural Resource Management (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 492
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ISBN-10 : 9781134671670
ISBN-13 : 1134671679
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Rural Resource Management (Routledge Revivals) by : Paul Cloke

This book, first published in 1985, provides an overview of resource management, together with a geographical treatment of physical, landscape and social resources. Drawing on British, European and North American material, the book has three main objectives: to offer an integrated review of the rural resource system, to isolate potential and actual conflicts between resources in the countryside with the aid of detailed case studies, and to explore various broad management techniques and their applicability to differing types of resource use and resource conflict. This title will provide important insight for students of geography, resource management, environmental planning and conservation.

The Modern Urban Landscape

The Modern Urban Landscape
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 876
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ISBN-10 : 0801835607
ISBN-13 : 9780801835605
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Modern Urban Landscape by : E. C. Relph

Why do the cities of the late twentieth century look as they do? What values do their appearance express and enfold? Their sheer scale and the durability of their materials assure that our cities will inform future generations about our era, in the same way that gothic cathedrals and medieval squares tell us something of the Middle Ages. In the meantime, our urban landscapes can tell us much about ourselves. For E. C. Relph, the urban landscape must be envisioned as a total environment—not just streets and buildings but billboards and parking meters as well. The Modern Urban Landscape traces the developments since 1880 in architecture, technology, planning, and society that have formed the visual context of daily life. Each of these shaping influences is often viewed in isolation, but Relph surveys the ways in which they have operated independently to create what we see when we walk down a street, shop in a mall, or stare through a windshield on an expressway. Two sets of ideas and fashions, Relph argues, have had an especially important impact on urban landscapes in the twentieth century. An "internationalism" made possible by new building technologies and more rapid communications has replaced regional style and custom as the dominant feature of city appearance, while a firm belief in the merits of self-consciousness has imposed logical analysis and technical manipulation on such commonplace objects as curbstones and park benches. "As a result," writes Relph, "the modern urban landscape is both rationalized and artificial, which is another way of saying that it is intensely human."

Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000)

Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000)
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 758
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ISBN-10 : 9781351661324
ISBN-13 : 1351661329
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000) by : John Block Friedman

First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.E. 525 to 1492. This comprehensive reference work contains entries on a large number of subjects, including familiar topics such as the voyages of Columbus and Marco Polo, and also information that is more difficult to find, for example, the traditions of travel among Muslim women and the influence of Viking travel on navigation and geographical knowledge. Bringing together more than 175 scholars from a variety of disciplines, it minimizes Eurocentric bias and offers extensive coverage of such topics as travel within Inner Asia, Mongol society, and the spread of Buddhism. Including an extensive map program and more than 125 illustrations, as well as bibliographies, a comprehensive index and "see also" references, Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration is a valuable reference guide for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and also the general reader.

Themes in Geographic Thought

Themes in Geographic Thought
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 0709901887
ISBN-13 : 9780709901884
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Themes in Geographic Thought by : Milton E. Harvey

Rural Revival?

Rural Revival?
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9781409490074
ISBN-13 : 1409490076
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Rural Revival? by : Dr Phil McManus

How, if possible, to re-populate declining rural and regional areas? Examining this crucial and complex issue in relation to Australia, this book explores how a particular organization, 'Country Week', has emerged and developed as one means of stimulating the repopulation of declining or stagnating areas. While this is a problem shared by many other developed countries in Europe and North America, Australia's 'Country Week' programme puts forward an innovative range of place-marketing strategies that challenge rural decline and urban migration and can offer new approaches which could be adopted more widely.

Routledge Revivals: The Making of Urban Scotland (1978)

Routledge Revivals: The Making of Urban Scotland (1978)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9781351033763
ISBN-13 : 135103376X
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Routledge Revivals: The Making of Urban Scotland (1978) by : Ian H. Adams

Originally published in 1978, The Making of Urban Scotland traces the evolution of towns from their prehistoric origins to the present day. Most of the material is based on research in Scotland’s archives, housed in the Scottish Record Office. Special emphasis is placed on the causes of economic change and its repercussions upon Scottish town life. The urban stresses of the nineteenth century are analysed in detail, as well as the subsequent emergence of Scotland as Western Europe’s pre-eminent council house society. The unique character of Scotland’s housing occupies two chapters and for the first time the whole panoply of the statuary origins of the council house landscape is exposed.